Quotes by American/USA authors (page 64)

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"To the old, the new is usually bad news"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years"

Will Durant, Historian

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice"

Will Durant, Historian

"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Hatred observes with more care than love does"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences"

Mason Cooley, Writer

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