David J. C. MacKay Quotes
Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.
David J. C. MacKay
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt
Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Tammy Duckworth
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
Edith Piaf
I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
T. J. Perkins
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. Kinsella
I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
Hal Sparks
You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
Maceo Parker
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry
I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
P. J. O'Rourke
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
Irving Kirsch
My dad's nickname was MacGyver when we were kids. He'd hijack my projects all the time. When I got older, he would not do it as much... but he would just end up hijacking the whole thing. You should see the look in his eyes when he gets to create stuff.
Lucas Till
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
James Russell Lowell
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.
David J. C. MacKay
