John Henry Carver Quotes

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

John Henry Carver

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Life
  • World
  • Yourself

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Home
  • Only
  • Typical

• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • World
  • Food
  • Silence

• I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Done
  • Science

• As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • True
  • Faith

• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Point
  • Addiction
  • Terminal

• I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Myself

• I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Eyes

• There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • May
  • King

• Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Small

• Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Job
  • Brain

• The act of love is a confession.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Confession
  • Act Of Love

• It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Judgment

• That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

  

  George Pickett
  • Division

• I am exhausted if I don't work.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Exhausted

• The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

  

  John Henry Carver