Ben Bova Quotes
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.
Ben Bova
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
Taylor Lautner
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
Ada Lovelace
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. Pritzker
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Jack McDevitt
'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
Samantha Bee
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Larry Wall
We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
Lionel Richie
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. Martin Kohe
But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.
Barack Obama
Prince loves his women. It's not impossible that someday he'll be devoted to just one.
Apollonia Kotero
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
Plato
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.
Ben Bova
