Three Quotes - Page 30

When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.