Weizenbaum Rebel Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go. — Sophia Amoruso

Every prayer is a wish fulfilled in due time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand. — William Rounseville Alger

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses. — Libba Bray

Depreciation of money can benefit debtors only when it is unforeseen. If inflationary measures and a reduction of the value of money are expected, then those who lend money will demand higher interest in order to compensate their probable loss of capital, and those who seek loans will be prepared to pay the higher interest because they have a prospect of gaining on capital account. — Ludwig Von Mises

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun. — Cammie McGovern

You're tall, young man."

"Yes, I am."

"How long have you been that tall?"

"Um . . ." He smiled, and I could tell he was trying not to laugh. "A while now. — Kasie West

Once I started I couldn't put it down. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck. — Katie Klein

Wrong answer," Luc said, voice low as he dropped Lyla. "You always have a choice. It's the one thing that no one can strip from us. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. — Gordon Ramsay

Iscussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher ... — George Bernard Shaw

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror. — Francois Rabelais

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu? — Beth Ditto

Then, too, I am constantly confronted by students, some of whom have already rejected all ways but the scientific to come to know the world, and who seek only a deeper, more dogmatic indoctrination in that faith (although the world is no longer in their vocabulary). Other students suspect that not even the entire collection of machines and instruments at MIT can significantly give meaning to their lives. They sense the presence of a dilemma in an education polarized around science and technology, an education that implicitly claims to open a privileges access-path to fact, but that cannot tell them how to decide what to count as fact. Even while they recognize the genuine importance of learning their craft, they rebel at working on projects that appear to address themselves neither to answering interesting questions of fact nor to solving problems in theory. — Joseph Weizenbaum