Richard Needham Famous Quotes
A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody.
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
"When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem."
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
"You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you."
Richard Needham Quotations
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
"It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak."
George Orwell
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E W Dijkstra
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
"For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."
Storm Jameson
I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
Jesse Louis Jackson
"'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.'"
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand