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

• During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

  

  Rick Warren
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Going

• We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bird
  • Condition
  • Passions

• France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Rules
  • France
  • Dictatorship

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

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Love
  • Night
  • Care

• 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