Clifford Stoll Quotes
If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.
Quotes to Explore
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
-
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
-
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
-
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
-
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
-
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
-
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
-
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
-
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
-
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
-
All of my main characters have been under 30.
-
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
-
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
-
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
-
I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
-
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
-
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
-
The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
-
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
-
There's so many things you can do to make your community and help the world.
-
If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.
