Applicative Quotes

#1. Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Michael Moore

#3. I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Hamid Karzai

#4. We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Leon Kass

#5. People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

#6. There were going to be plenty of them who would have been just as opposed to the Republic. Trust the wrong one, and they'd all be fed straight to the Empire. Leia. Luke. All of them. It was the nature of the game.

James S.A. Corey

#7. It made a sound," Carl says. "Can you describe it?" "Ever put a harmonica in a blender?" "No." "Then no, I can't describe it," he says.

Anonymous