Industry need not wish.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

There is no gambling like politics.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

If you judge, investigate.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

History is more or less bunk.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.