Nicholas Metropolis Quotes

Most of us have grown so blase about computer developments and capabilities — even some that are spectacular — that it is difficult to believe or imagine there was a time when we suffered the noisy, painstakingly slow, electromechanical devices that chomped away on punched cards.

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• A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Way
  • Discipline
  • Meditation

• Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

  

  An Wang
  • Business
  • Change
  • Company

• History is merely gossip.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Gossip
  • Merely

• It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dream
  • Past
  • Car

• Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Voice
  • Sacrifice

• If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

  

  Epictetus
  • Succeed
  • Spoken
  • Learnt

• At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Culture
  • Responsibility
  • Moments

• I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Syria
  • Mosul
  • Raqqa

• I love to create this green juice shake made from kale, spinach, cucumber and wheatgrass. The nutrients in the juice help me recover after a tough workout. The Kale Banana Smoothie at LYFE Kitchen is very similar to my recipe and is fantastic.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Helping
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Where
  • Come Up

• I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Religious

• Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Feelings
  • Childhood
  • Able

• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Minds
  • Credit
  • Discoveries

• I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

  

  Elizabeth Ray
  • Food
  • Wine
  • Grown

• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Way
  • Hard

• Most of us have grown so blase about computer developments and capabilities — even some that are spectacular — that it is difficult to believe or imagine there was a time when we suffered the noisy, painstakingly slow, electromechanical devices that chomped away on punched cards.

  

  Nicholas Metropolis
  • Devices
  • Grown
  • Developments