Howard Aiken Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
-
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
-
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
-
Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
-
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
-
I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
-
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
-
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
-
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
-
I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
-
Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
-
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
-
If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
-
My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
-
People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
-
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
-
Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
-
Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
-
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
-
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
-
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
-
Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.
-
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
-
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
