World Quotes - Page 868

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

What's the best gamble in the world, right now? Its betting that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Short sellers borrowed money from their banks to place bets that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Now, it's wringing its hands and saying, "Oh the speculators are killing us." But it's Deutsche Bank and the other banks that are providing the money to the speculators to bet on credit.

We're living in a world that's divided into two economies: the economy of the 1%, and the economy of the bottom 99%. I guess you could be more "centrist" and say the top 10% versus the bottom 90%. But there's definitely a stratification at work here.

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.

The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the world.

Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

I think in an ideal world, one would be able to do everything, however, we don't live in an ideal world.

There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively, and it's hard to ignore the subordination of darker peoples to lighter peoples the world around.

The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers.

Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.