John Tukey Quotes

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

John Tukey

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Important
  • Myself

• My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mom

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Model

• I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.

  

  Adele
  • Life
  • Health
  • Sex

• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Choice
  • Word

• If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Death
  • Fall
  • Son

• It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Wrong
  • Fiction
  • Get Away

• No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Lies

• I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Trying
  • She
  • Book

• I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Alone
  • Design
  • Color

• If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Today
  • Needs
  • Motivational

• I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • True
  • Hope
  • Desire

• I'm so not a financial person.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Financial
  • Persons

• In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person.

  

  Gackt
  • Important
  • Persons
  • Romance

• It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Wise
  • Persons
  • Honest

• Fashion is a great love of mine. I’m used to looking really hard for clothes that I like and I am really fortunate to have an amazing team of talented artists who work day and night with me to create our visions and make them come alive.

  

  Netta
  • Love
  • Team
  • Fashion

• You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart.

  

  Carole King
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

  

  John Tukey
  • Persons
  • Computer
  • Advantage