I. D. Douglas Quotes
While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.
My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.
It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.
The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.