Quotes of: Brute-force Keyword

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

William Cobbett

When in doubt, use brute force.

Ken Thompson

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

The Staff of Serapis

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis

Andrew McAfee

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Oscar Wilde

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

Rudolf Rocker

Our greater beastliness lies not in a penchant for brute force,but in our greater corruption, nihilism, and decadence; in our servitude to the overwhelming systems we create; in the sociopathic rationalism we adopt to master natural forces and to com...

Rants Within The Undead God

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Stephen Baker

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Rand Paul

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.

Clyde DeSouza

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Liberalism

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Havelock Ellis

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

Ayn Rand

But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength.

Finale

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

Liberalism

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Simone Weil

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Alan Kay