People Quotes

"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases"

"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do"

Robert Plant, Musician

"People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions"

Robert Plant, Musician

"It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness"

Robert Plant, Musician

"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition"

Dwight Morrow, Businessman

"Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others"

Barry White, Musician

"I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally"

Graham Nash, Musician

"We teach people how to treat us"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy"

John Barrow, Politician

"It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation"

Elias Canetti, Author

"I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along"

George Martin, Producer

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