Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Nigel Short

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Job
  • Meaning

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Nature
  • You
  • Butterfly

• We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Death
  • Career
  • Heaven

• The fraction of Americans working in occupations concerned primarily with information has increased from 20 to nearly 50 percent of the work force.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work

• When annual elections end, there slavery begins.

  

  John Adams
  • Slavery

• When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

  

  Marcus Garvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Feeling
  • Fall
  • Spring

• Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.

  

  Joel Benenson

• There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Interesting

• With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.

  

  Johan Eliasch
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• His words were simple words enough,And yet he used them so,That what in other mouths was roughIn his seemed musical and low.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Words
  • Simple

• Ὁ δίκαιος ἀταρακτότατος, ὁ δ᾽ ἄδικος πλείστης ταραχῆς γέμων.

  

  Epicurus

• I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.

  

  Thaddeus Stevens
  • Liberty
  • Slavery
  • Christians

• The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Computer
  • Macintosh

• I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.

  

  Daniel Simon
  • Design
  • Computer
  • Vehicle

• Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Live
  • Road
  • Baby

• If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Life
  • Work
  • Want

• If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Computer
  • Chess
  • Jungle