Brian Christian Quotes

Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn’t sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it’s backed up by proofs.

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• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Future
  • Rap
  • Group

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Now
  • Ways
  • Lighter

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Forever

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dog

• 'So you say, so you say,' murmured Fflewddur, hurrying after him. 'Look closer into your heart. You may find your opinion to be somewhat different.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Different
  • Heart
  • May

• I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.

  

  Paula Creamer

• Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Respect
  • Church

• I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Health
  • Fool

• If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Knowledge
  • Running
  • Wisdom

• The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

  

  Stephen Gardiner
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Step Forward

• Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • Live
  • City
  • New York

• All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Stars

• Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn’t sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it’s backed up by proofs.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Wisdom
  • Proofs
  • Computer science