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

• If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Force
  • Achieve

• 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

• He just keeps coming back, so I've got no doubt he'll play as long as he wants and he's got the hunger. He just loves it.

  

  Adam Gilchrist
  • Want
  • Play
  • Coming Back

• It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • World

• My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Help
  • Dream

• One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Love
  • Night
  • Care

• Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.

  

  Daniel Altman
  • Countries
  • Themselves
  • Trading

• 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