Scott McNealy Quotes

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

Scott McNealy

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• Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• 'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Age

• If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Great Deal

• What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?

  

  Barbara Crossette
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Doubt

• Fuck me. We're living in Isengard.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch

• I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Stars

• At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Economic
  • Trade
  • Assuming

• And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Get
  • Despair
  • Fairytale

• I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak. I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak. I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.

  

  Dan Wells
  • Real
  • Tears
  • Emotion

• We need to do our best to be as sharp as we can. I think that's the frustrating part for us.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Need
  • Frustrating
  • Sharp

• Don't panic. Panic will kill you when nothing else wants to.

  

  Elizabeth Haydon
  • Kill
  • Wants
  • Panic

• We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Rain

• Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Work
  • Achieve
  • Albums

• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Year

• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Discovery
  • Telephone
  • Magnetic Field

• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Read

• We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Telephone
  • Switch
  • Computing