John Lewis Gaddis Quotes
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
-
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
-
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
-
When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
-
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
-
I love anything to do with history.
-
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
-
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
-
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
-
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
-
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
-
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
-
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
-
Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
-
I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
-
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
-
Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
-
'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments, and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
-
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
-
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
-
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
-
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
