John Quotes

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

I can only give away the love that I have received.

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.