Simple Quotes - page 19

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity. (Karl Marx)
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems. View quote
Rasmus Lerdorf
PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes? View quote
Rasmus Lerdorf
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. View quote
Grady Booch
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual-even a one-word manual-then it is a failure, poorly designed. View quote
Donald Norman
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. View quote
Seth Lloyd
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation. View quote
Albert Einstein
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. View quote
Albert Einstein
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. View quote
Albert Einstein
That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics. View quote
Albert Einstein
Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness The simple answer runs Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. View quote
Albert Einstein
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that. View quote
Bob Hope
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit. (Sachin Tendulkar)
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure. View quote
William Winwood Reade
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. View quote
William Winwood Reade
I don't think movie stars are nationally relevant – it's as simple as that. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. View quote
Martin Luther