c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.
— Hod Lipson
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
— Mark Rylance
Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.
— Greg Lynn
Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
— Marcel Dzama
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?
— Henry Mintzberg
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
— Adam Osborne
Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
— Charles Keating
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
— Adam Osborne
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
— Greg Egan
The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.
— Robert Cailliau
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
— Masi Oka
People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!
— Luis von Ahn
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
— Luis von Ahn
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.
— Scott Michael Foster
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
— Dieter Rams
Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.
— Jonathan Raymond
They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
— Sherman Austin
When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.
— Sherman Austin
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
— Lennart Nilsson
That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.
— Lennart Nilsson
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
— Charles C. Mann
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
— Francois-Henri Pinault
The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
— Sumner Redstone
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
— Christopher Plummer
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
— William Landay
I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.
— Katherine Parkinson
Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.
— Frank Tipler
I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.
— Jimmi Simpson
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
— Perry Farrell
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.
— Dixie Carter
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.
— Joshua Michael Stern
I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.
— Alan Cooper
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
— Clifford Stoll
I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
— Patrick Collison
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
— Michael Birch
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
— Brenda Laurel
I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch.
— Godfrey Hounsfield
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
— Jef Raskin
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
— Jef Raskin
There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
— Dave Winer
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
— Conrad Wolfram
I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
— Clint Black
I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
— Eric Avery
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
— Ben Fountain
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
— Conrad Wolfram
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
— Conrad Wolfram
You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.
— Shai Agassi
As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'
— Jefferson Han
I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
— Pat Cadigan
Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.
— Nick Szabo
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
— Walter F. Mondale
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
— Eugene Jarvis
You can't trust the internet.
— Nicollette Sheridan
Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.
— Paul Buchheit
I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.
— Mitchell Joachim
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
— Beth Simone Noveck
People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.
— Avi Rubin
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
— Margaret Wertheim
My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.
— Alessandra Torresani
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. 
— Sivamani
I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.
— Sunny Mabrey
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
— John Warnock
Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs? 
— Lene Hau
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
— Stephen Wolfram
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
— Frank Press
I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?
— Craig Hatkoff
I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.
— Charles Pollock
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
— Seymour Cray
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
— Bill McCollum
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
— Neil Gershenfeld
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
— Claude Vorilhon
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
— Steven Levy
I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.
— Matt Frewer
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.
— Gerald Edelman
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
— Dave Parnas
I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.
— Rick Boucher
I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
— Joanne Kelly
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
— W. Daniel Hillis
In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
— W. Daniel Hillis
The internet is not for sissies.
— Paul Vixie
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
— John Brunner
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
— Howard Aiken
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
— Dee Brown
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
— David Smith
For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
— Bob Kahn
It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them they are always consulting Dr Google. 
— Lucien Engelen
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
— Dale Dougherty
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
— Juvenal
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
— Unknown
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
— James Joyce
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
— Confucius
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
— Albert Einstein
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
— Thomas Jefferson
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
— John Ruskin
We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves. 
— Galileo Galilei
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
We are what we believe we are.
— C. S. Lewis
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
— Zhuangzi
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
— Sigmund Freud
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
— Isaac Newton
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
— Yogi Berra
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
— Khalil Gibran
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
— Charles Kettering
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
— Albert Einstein
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
— Confucius
I think therefore I am. 
— Rene Descartes
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
— Bernard Williams
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. 
— Rene Descartes
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
— Lewis Mumford
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
— Anne Frank
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
— Meister Eckhart
You exist only in what you do.
— Federico Fellini
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
— Tony Robbins
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
— Matthew Henry
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anais Nin
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out it's the grain of sand in your shoe. 
— Robert W. Service
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
— Thomas Browne
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If youth knew if age could. 
— Sigmund Freud
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
— Louis Pasteur
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
— Franz Kafka
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— A. A. Milne
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
— Elon Musk
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
— Charles Simmons
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
— Edward Gibbon
To be is to do.
— Immanuel Kant
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
— Jim Rohn
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
— Erich Fromm
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
— Epictetus
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
— Matsuo Basho
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
— Ralph Marston
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
— Eldridge Cleaver
Fortune favors the audacious.
— Desiderius Erasmus
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
— Norman Douglas
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
— Stephen Hawking
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
— Oliver Cromwell
Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
— Charles Darwin
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
— Wilson Mizner
Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will. 
— Oliver Cromwell
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
— Michel de Montaigne
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
— Voltaire
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
— Babe Ruth
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
— Albert Ellis
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts
You cannot step into the same river twice.
— Heraclitus
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
— Joseph Roux
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
— Rose Kennedy
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
— Saint Basil
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
— Victor Hugo
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
— John C. Maxwell
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
— Aesop
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
— Audre Lorde
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
— Charlotte Whitton
We must be our own before we can be another's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
— Ethel Waters
We do not judge the people we love.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
— Juvenal
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
— Thomas Huxley
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
— Virginia Satir
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
— Johann Georg Hamann
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
— Albert Einstein
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
— Pablo Picasso
Character is what a man is in the dark.
— Dwight L. Moody
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
— Pierre Bonnard
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
— Luc de Clapiers
United we stand, divided we fall.
— Aesop
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
— Albert Pike
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
— Paul Tournier
Good order is the foundation of all things.
— Edmund Burke
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
— Elbert Hubbard
He who defends everything defends nothing.
— Frederick the Great
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
We see things as we are, not as they are.
— Leo Rosten
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
— Robert M. Pirsig
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
— Thomas Huxley
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
— Henry Miller
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
— Thomas Reid
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
— Robert W. Service
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
— Thomas a Kempis
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.
— Konrad Lorenz
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
— Thomas Sowell
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
— Martin Heidegger
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
— Abraham Lincoln
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
— Deepak Chopra
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
— Laurence J. Peter
Talent does what it can genius does what it must. 
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
— Albert Einstein
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
— Bernard Williams
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
— Boris Pasternak
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
— John Galsworthy
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
— Maxwell Maltz
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
— Oswald Chambers
When one teaches, two learn.
— Robert Half
Brainy's the new sexy.
— Steven Moffat
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
— Albert Pike
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
— Horace
At times I think and at times I am.
— Paul Valery
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
— William Godwin
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
— Evan Davis
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
— John Updike
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
— Michael Leunig
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
— Thomas Sowell
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
— William Hazlitt
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
— Ellie Goulding
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
— Emile M. Cioran
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
— Karl Pilkington
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
— Karl Pilkington
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
— Albert Schweitzer
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'
— Woody Harrelson
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
— Craig Ferguson
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
— John Dryden
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
— Bodhidharma
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
— James Cash Penney
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
— William Feather
Genius is never understood in its own time.
— Bill Watterson
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
— Paula Pell
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
— George Henry Lewes
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
— Ezra Koenig
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
— Jean Giraudoux
What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us. 
— Henry Van Dyke
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
— Eve Arnold
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.
— Maximillian Degenerez
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.
— Maximillian Degenerez
It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be. 
— Gilbert Parker
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
— Samantha Fox
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. 
— Ivan Turgenev
Talent works, genius creates.
— Robert Schumann
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
Ideals are the world's masters.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
Life is but thought.
— Sara Teasdale
I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
— Nelly Furtado
To be is to be the value of a variable.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
— Francis Herbert Hedge
And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
— Jesus Christ
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
— Stephen Graham Jones
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
— Thomas S. Monson
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
— Thomas S. Monson
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
— Edna Ferber
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
— Pope Francis
Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.
— Robert Englund
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
— Winston Churchill
Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.
— Michael Dirda
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.
— Post Malone
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
— Hillary Scott
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.
— Jimmy Fallon
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
— Alexander Smith
Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.
— Gary Allan
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
— Queen Latifah
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
— Pope Francis
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
— Alexandra Adornetto
Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.
— Gisele Bundchen
I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
— Ashley Tisdale
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
— Victor Borge
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
— Blake Lively
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
— Dolly Parton
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
— Charles Dudley Warner
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
— Andy Rooney
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
— Carrie Fisher
T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
— Clement Clarke Moore
I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
— Tommy Hilfiger
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
— Dr. Seuss
Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.
— Jay Samit
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
— John C. Maxwell
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
— Charles Dickens
Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
— Catherine Hicks
I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
— Becky G
As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
— Harriet Tubman
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.
— John C. Maxwell
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
— Bob Hope
Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.
— Marlo Thomas
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
— Benjamin Franklin
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
— Phyllis Diller
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
— Pindar
Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
— Kobe Bryant
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
— B. C. Forbes
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
— Henny Youngman
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.
— Thomas S. Monson
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
— Demetri Martin
When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times.
— Sean Bean
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
— Mary Berry
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
— Alain Ducasse
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
— Paul Engle
My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.
— Thomas S. Monson
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
— David Friedrich Strauss
Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
— Chris Hardwick
The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
— James Lankford
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
— Dave Barry
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
— Lucinda Franks
God is in the details.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
— T. S. Eliot
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
— Washington Irving
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves.
— Thomas S. Monson
There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
— Kristen Wiig
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.
— Nicolas Cage
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
— B. B. King
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
— Ronald Reagan
When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.
— Chris Brown
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
— Arthur Laffer
Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
— Wayne Swan
Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
— Zooey Deschanel
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
— Pete Rose
As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold.
— Tove Jansson
At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes.
— Desiigner
Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?
— Sayed Kashua
I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.
— Nia Vardalos
Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It's meant to make us feel good, and it's meant to make us like we belong somewhere.
— Jens Lekman
I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.
— Lewis Black
I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.
— Suzi Quatro
When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.
— Maya Angelou
I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.
— Joel Osteen
For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
— Joel Edgerton
A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.
— Monica Johnson
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day. 
— Elvis Mitchell
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
— Karl Lagerfeld