1840s Us History Quotes

#1. One way to know if you are working in your strengths is to ask yourself, "Do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?" That's what you want for your role: You want to be doing what you do best every day.

Matt Perman

#2. Oh, you queer soul!

Charles Dickens

#3. Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.

Vernor Vinge

#4. Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.

Leon Trotsky

#5. If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

John Harrison

#6. With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances,

Honore De Balzac

#7. Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

James Buchan

#8. I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Hari Kunzru

#9. L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.

Kim Gordon

#10. What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.

J. Vernon McGee

#11. The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Jack Welch

#12. I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Peter T. King

#13. Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Alexander Pope

#15. In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Stefan Collini

#16. The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

Wietse Venema