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# John Dennis

John Dennis (September 16, 1658 – January 6, 1734) was an English critic and dramatist.

## Quotes

* A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
** The Gentleman's Magazine (1781), Vol. LI. p. 324.
* See how the rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
** Alternately reported as: "That is my thunder, by God; the villains will play my thunder, but not my play." Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
** Note: Dennis had written a tragedy, Appius and Virginia, for which he had invented a new technique for creating the sound of thunder, which the actors favored and which remained in use for centuries thereafter. The play itself was poorly received despite this innovation, and the management of the Drury Lane Theatre withdrew it. A few nights later, Dennis was in the pit at a performance of Macbeth, and heard his own thunder used; upon which he rose in a violent passion, and exclaimed with an oath, that it was his thunder. In Biographia Britannica, vol. v. p. 103. Conflicting reports exist as to whether Dennis actually used the phrase "steal my thunder", although it is undisputed that his experience is the origin of the idiom.
# James A. Champy

James A. (Jim) Champy (born 1942) is an American business consultant, and organizational theorist, known for his work in the field of business process reengineering, business process improvement and organizational change.

## Quotes

* Without Ambition, No Conquests Are Made, No Lands Discovered, No Businesses Created Ambition Is the Root of All Achievement.
** James Champy, ‎Nitin Nohria (2001), The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey. p. 1

### Reengineering the Corporation, 1993

Michael Hammer, James A. Champy. Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. HarperCollins, 1993; 2009.
    See Michael Hammer#Reengineering the Corporation, 1993

### Reengineering management, 1995

James A. Champy and Lawrence Cohen. Reengineering management: The Mandate for New Leadership. Dunod, 1995.
* Half a revolution is not better than none... It may, in fact, be worse.
** p. 3
* It is not enough for a leader to have a vision. A leader needs to attract followers, men and women who can commit themselves to the new ideal of customer focus. But if the mobilization process is to succeed, those followers must become leaders, too, finding their own sense of purpose in the shared challenge and spreading the call and vision of change.
** Cited in: Don Soderquist (2005), The Wal-Mart Way, p. 7
* Managers model the way by first changing themselves.
** p. 35
* People claim that significant change requires commitment from the top. True, the top is necessary, but it's not enough. No CEO can do this alone.
** p. 72
* Values are our moral navigational devices.
** p. 78
* Don't live too long with people who refuse to change their behavior, especially if their work is important to achieving your reengineering goals.
** p. 109
* Unless you can subject your decision‐making to a ruthless and continuous JUDGMENT BY RESULTS, all your zigs and zags will only be random lunges in the dark, sooner or later bound to land you on the rocks.
** p. 120
* People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.
** p. 133
* We are in the grip of the second managerial revolution, one that's very different from the first. The first was about a transfer of power. This one is about an access of freedom.
** p. 205

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# James Alan Fox

James Alan Fox (born December 22, 1951) is a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, in the United States. He is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and former dean at Northeastern. He has published 15 books and dozens of journal and magazine articles and newspaper columns. Fox holds a bachelor's degree in sociology (1972), a master's degree in criminology (1974), a master's degree in statistics (1975), and a Ph.D. in sociology (1976), all from the University of Pennsylvania.
Fox is known as "The Dean of Death," for his research on mass murders. USA Today says that "Fox is arguably the nation's leading criminologist." As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs.

## Quote

* Sadism has even found a prominent position in popular culture.Many prime-time television series now owe their staying power to the sadistic impulses they exploit on the tube. Audience members find tremendous enjoyment in viewing horrified contestants who devour worms and insects on NBC’s Fear Factor; Donald Trump who exclaims without nuance, “You’re fired” on his wildly popular series, The Apprentice...
** Jack Levin and James Alan Fox, "Normalcy in Behavioral Characteristics of the Sadistic Serial Killer", Chapter 1 in Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes, edited by Richard N. Kocsis, 2008 Humana Press; p. 12-13
* Certain guns have a reputation of being especially deadly. They would be the weapons of choice. Contrary to popular belief that these are guys who go berserk, they tend to be well-planned executions. They plan what they are going to wear and what weapons to bring.
** referring to the Glock semiautomatic handgun (Horwitz, Sari (July 20, 2012). "Glock semiautomatic pistol links recent mass shootings". The Washington Post. )
# James Abourezk

James George Abourezk (February 24, 1931 – February 24, 2023) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Representative and United States Senator from South Dakota. He was the first Greek Orthodox Christian of Lebanese-Antiochite descent to serve in the United States Senate.

## Quotes

* I marveled at the Hezbollah resistance to Israel . . . It was a marvel of organization, of courage and bravery.
* The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs.
** Victor Davis Hanson (September 15, 2007). Scapegoats yet again. The Washington Times, LLC.. Retrieved on 2008-10-13.
* There's a direct correlation, we've found, between the demonization of Saddam, and violent acts against Arab-Americans in this country.
** The Arabs: Who they are, who they are not, from the Moyers collection
# James A. Skinner

James Alan Skinner (born 1944) is an American business executive, who was the vice chairman and CEO of McDonald's Corporation.

## Quotes

* We are not going to solve society's problems. People have to do that on their own... If you can’t get your kids to eat vegetables, why is it my job?
** August 2008, Wall Street Journal
# James A. Lindsay

James Stephen Lindsay, born 8 June 1979, known professionally as James A. Lindsay, is an American author and cultural critic. He is known for the grievance studies affair, in which he, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose submitted hoax articles to academic journals in 2017 and 2018 to test scholarship and rigor in several academic fields. Lindsay has written several books including Cynical Theories (2020), which he co-authored with Pluckrose.

## Quotes

* [About giving in during a struggle session:] To betray yourself or others is to give away some part of what makes you truly human. It is to dehumanize yourself. It is to cut off a piece of your soul, and that is the part of you that honors others, that makes relationships trustworthy and loyal. That's the part that makes you trustworthy instead of craven. So when you fail, you make yourself less trustworthy. If you betray somebody, everybody else see you betray somebody for your own skin. You're craven and you damage all of your relationships. You become less trustworthy as a person. It's the part of you that makes you loyal. [...] They make you give that away. They don't take it from you. Pay attention. They make you give it away. So that you debase and demoralize yourself. So that you cut yourself off from your social circles. So that you undermine your worthiness. And that demorizes others who are disappointed in you when they see it happen. You make yourself less trustworthy, less loyal, less human, so that you can escape a psychological pressure that they are putting on you.
** "Surviving a Modern Struggle Session" (at 1h31m17s), New Discourses, 27 December 2022.
* Whether you're at the center or the periphery of a struggle session, you have to understand its dynamics, you have to understand its goals, and you have to understand what's going on. [...] It's so important to understand that we are in the midst of a Maoist insurgency against this country, against the West. These are its tactics, you can see who its players are, you can see how they work.
** "Surviving a Modern Struggle Session" (at 2h17m28s), New Discourses, 27 December 2022.

## Quotes about James Lindsay

* James Lindsay, the pro-gay atheist, is now panicking that Christians are praying the St. Michael prayer. The only other person I’m aware of who is this afraid of the Archangel Michael is Satan. Probably not a good sign.
** Nick Fuentes, Twitter, 30 September 2024
# James Agate

James Evershed Agate (9 September 1877 – 6 June 1947) was an English drama critic and diarist. He is now best remembered for his diaries, published in many volumes under the overall title Ego.

## Quotes

* Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If he can't pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.
** Ego (1935), p. 247, October 14, 1932.
* Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.
** Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.
* A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
** Ego, p. 303, September 17, 1933.
* Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
** Ego 4 (1940), p. 139, November 13, 1939.
* The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.
** Ego 4, p. 149, December 18, 1939.
* I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
** Ego 6 (1944), p. 189, June 9, 1943.
* The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
** Ego 6, p. 199, June 26, 1943.
* The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
** Ego 7 (1945), p. 153, July 21, 1944.
** On von Stauffenberg's bomb plot.
* I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.
** Ego 8 (1947), p. 255, November 25, 1945
** Of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
# Featuritis

Featuritis, Creeping featurism or the spoonerism Feeping Creaturism, is a term used to describe software which over-emphasizes new features to the detriment of other design goals, such as simplicity, compactness, stability, or bug reduction.

## Sourced

* Requests for specialized facilities and minor notational improvements are very common. When provided, they rarely fail to win applause. After all, if a feature is a direct solution to a problem and doesn’t significantly interact with other facilities, it is easy to explain, often easy to implement, and typically has a logically minimal expression leading to very concise pieces of code. People comparing languages using lists love such features. The snag is that the problems we face are essentially infinite, so we need an infinity of such specialized features.
** Bjarne Stroustrup. "The Design of C++0x". C++ User's Journal, May 2005.
* The term "creeping featurism" was used in a 1976 Programmer's Workbench paper written by John Mashey, and in a talk by him first done in 1977, and later gave (as an ACM National Lecture) about 50-70 times through 1982. The original foils were scanned in 2002, and the phrase is used on Slide 033 within the talk. Mashey says "I can't recall if I actually coined this myself or heard it somewhere, but in any case, the phrase was certainly in public use by 1976."
** http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/featuritis_and_creeping_featurism.html
# February

February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years.

## Quotes
### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 270.
* Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering.
** William Cullen Bryant, A Winter Piece, line 60.
* The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
** William Cullen Bryant, Among the Trees, line 53.
* February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.
** George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).
* February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.
** Thomas Tusser, Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, February's Husbandry (1577 Edition "With what ye like").

### Other

* The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
** Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons, 1949, p. 169.
# Isaac Parker

Isaac Charles Parker (October 15, 1838 – November 17, 1896) served as a U.S. District Judge presiding over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for 21 years. He served in that capacity during the most dangerous time for law enforcement during the western expansion. He is remembered today as the legitimate "Hanging Judge" of the American Old West.

## Quotes

* The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.
** Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland (May 27, 1885).
* I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.
** September 1, 1896; reported in Alton Pryor, The Lawmen‎ (2006), p. 103.
* I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'
** September 1, 1896, reported in Homer Croy, He Hanged Them High (1952), p. 218.

## External links

* National Park Service (National Historic Site) entry about Judge Isaac Parker
# Isaac Taylor

Isaac Taylor (17 August 1787 – 28 June 1865) was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor.

## Quotes

* The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil.
** Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization. (1859); Cited in: Samuel Smiles (1864) Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers, p. 228.
# Isaac Taylor (priest)

Isaac Taylor (2 May 1829 – 18 October 1901), son of Isaac Taylor, was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York (from 1885).

## Quotes

* The Aryan invaders, few in number, who were settled on the banks of the Upper Indus, are found gradually advancing to the south and the east in continual conflict with the Dasyu or dark-skinned aborigines, who spoke a strange language, worshipped strange gods, and followed strange customs, till finally the barbarians are subdued and admitted into the Aryan state as a fourth caste, called the "blacks," or Sudras. The higher civilisation and the superior physique of the northern invaders ultimately prevailed, and they imposed their language and their creed on the subject tribes; but the purity of the race was soiled by marriage with native women, the language was infected with peculiar Dravidian sounds, and the creed with foul Dra- vidian worships of Siva and Kali, and the adoration of the lingam and the snake. The Aryanisation of Europe doubtless resembled that of India. The Aryan speech and the Aryan civilisation prevailed, but the Aryan race either disappeared or its purity was lost.
** (c.1889:212) in Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India. 185
* The whilom tyranny of the Sanskritists is happily overpast, and it is seen that hasty philological deductions require to be systematically checked by the conclusions of prehistoric archaeology, craniology, anthropology, geology, and common sense.
** (c.1889:332). in Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Aryans and British India. 186
# Isaac McLellan

Isaac McLellan (21 May 1806 – 20 August 1899) was an author and poet, some of whose work has achieved notability by republication in anthologies.

## Quotes

* New England's dead. New England's dead! On every hill they lie; On every field of strife, made red By bloody victory.
** New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The land is holy where they fought And holy where they fell; For by their blood that land was bought, The land they loved so well.
** New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

## External links

* Poems of the rod and gun; or, Sports by flood and field by Isaac McLellan from the Internet Archive
* The Avalanche and the destruction of the Willey Family by Isaac McLellan from the Internet Archive
# Isaac de Benserade

Isaac de Benserade (baptized November 5, 1613 – October 10, 1691) was a French poet.

## Quotes

* Théâtre des ris et des pleurs Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs, Tu nous fais voir comment voisins Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
** In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And, born in bed, in bed we die. The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.
*** Translated by Samuel Johnson, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
# Isaac of the Cells

Abba Isaac of the Cells was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

## Quotes

       Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4.
* Once they came to make Abba Isaac a priest. When he heard, he fled into Egypt, went into a field, and hid amidst the crop. The fathers went after him and, when they got to that same field, sat down to rest a little there, for it was night. They set the ass free to pasture, but the ass went and stood by the elder. When they sought the ass at dawn, they found Abba Isaac too. They were amazed and wanted to bind him but he would not let them. “I am not running away any more,” he said, “for it is the will of God and no matter where I run away to, I will come to it.”
** Saying 1
* They used to say of Abba Isaac that he used to eat ashes from the thurible used at the Eucharist with his bread.
** Saying 6
# Gary Wright

Gary Malcolm Wright (26 April 1943 – 4 September 2023) was an American musician and composer most famous for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive".

## Quotes
### The Dream Weaver (1975)

* Well, I think it's time to get ready To realize just what I have found I have lived only half of what I am It's all clear to me now My heart is on fire My soul's like a wheel that's turnin' My love is alive My love is alive, yeah, girl, yeah
** Love Is Alive · Live performance (1976) · Midnight Special performance (1976) · "Gary Wright & Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band" (2008)
* Ooh, dream weaver I believe you can get me through the night Ooh, dream weaver I believe we can reach the morning light
** Dream Weaver · Midnight Special performance (1975) · "Gary Wright & Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band" (2008)
* Fly me high through the starry skies Maybe to an astral plane Cross the highways of fantasy Help me to forget today's pain Ooh, dream weaver I believe you can get me through the night Ooh, dream weaver I believe we can reach the morning light Though the dawn may be coming soon There still may be some time Fly me away to the bright side of the moon Meet me on the other side
** Dream Weaver

## External links

* Official website
* Gary Wright at IMDb
# Gary Unmarried

Gary Unmarried (2008–2010) is an American short-lived sitcom aired on CBS. On May 18, 2010, CBS cancelled the series after 2 seasons.

## Season 1
### Pilot [1.01]

    Allison: Have you noticed that Tommy's afraid of girls?
    Gary: He should be afraid of girls. They pretend to like you and then take all your stuff.

## External links

* Gary Unmarried quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Gary Webb

Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative reporter, journalist, author, and legislative staffer.

## Sourced

* I do not believe -- and I have never believed -- that the crack cocaine explosion was a conscious CIA conspiracy, or anybody's conspiracy, to decimate black America. I've never believed that South Central Los Angeles was targeted by the U.S. government to become the crack capitol of the world. But that isn't to say that the CIA's hands or the U.S. government's hands are clean in this matter. Actually, far from it. After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
** January 16, 1999, Eugene, Oregon.

### Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press.

Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573929727. (2002) by Kristina Borjesson (editor). Includes chapter 14 by Gary Webb.
* If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me … I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn't work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite? And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job … The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.
* Do we have a free press today? Sure we do. It’s free to report all the sex scandals it wants, all the stock market news we can handle, every new health fad that comes down the pike, and every celebrity marriage or divorce that happens. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—stories like Tailwind, the October Surprise, the El Mozote massacre, corporate corruption, or CIA involvement in drug trafficking—that’s where we begin to see the limits of our freedoms. In today’s media environment, sadly, such stories are not even open for discussion. Back in 1938, when fascism was sweeping Europe, legendary investigative reporter George Seldes observed that “it is possible to fool all the people all the time—when government and press cooperate.” Unfortunately, we have reached that point.
** p. 156