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Present Day Quotes

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

Kin Hubbard
Entrepreneur, Opinion, Present Day

The present day composer refuses to die.

Edgard Varese
Composer, Refuse, Present Day

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Mary Douglas
Hierarchy, Present Day

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Donald Knuth
History, Algorithms, Present Day
Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.550, Addison-Wesley Professional

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Wilfred Burchett
Strong, Vietnamese, Present Day

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

J. E. Buckrose
Happiness, Tendencies, Present Day
Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

Horace
Happy, Enjoy, Present Day

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Horace
Enjoy, Present Day

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