Use Quotes - Page 15

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

A Panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a Panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry, and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black and white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions.

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.