Quotes of: George-w Keyword

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.

Christianizing the Roman Empire:

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Damned

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

Historians In The Middle Ages

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell

The Hammer Of God

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Harrison Birtwistle

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

Every law out there is to protect the safety of every individual, regardless of their age and regardless of their race. And so, if those laws are not working, then we need to work to change them.

Robert P. McCulloch

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The Sociological Imagination

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

The Omnibus of Crime

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

The Lady Elizabeth

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

The Life of Andrew Jackson

Kalau Islam berarti menyerahkan diri, maka kita semua hidup dan mati dalam Islam - Goethe

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Kebudayaan mempunyai sifat-sifat khusus, nasional, sederhana, dan timbul dengan sendirinya - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

Brian Behlendorf

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

James McAvoy

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

John Romero

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Jamie Zawinski

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim