Top 100 Borg Quotes
#1. Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.
Clive James
#2. Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.
Megan Smith
#3. As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
Sachin Tendulkar
#4. We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it's going to happen.
Seth Shostak
#5. Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.
Argus Hamilton
#6. Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.
John McEnroe
#7. Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
Richard Krajicek
#8. The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off (but which self is the tumor?). Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.
Jonathan Ames
#9. To explore strange new worlds ... and assimilate them.
To seek out new life forms ... and new civilizations ... and assimilate them.
To boldly go where no Borg has gone before ... and assimilate them.
Peter David
#10. Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn ...
Terry Pratchett
#11. The fact that I could correctly make a reference to the Borg was probably part of the reason I was not being accepted into the Collective.
Molly Harper
#12. A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?
Ernest Cline
#13. God, these guys were like fucking Terminators. Or Borg. Resistance is futile and all that shit. It was clear she wasn't going to shake the Brothers From Hell.
Larissa Ione
#14. Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
Clive James
#15. In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate their contributions to the field and to the world.
Telle Whitney
#16. I really don't think our school system is an evil borg force. It's sort of like the government. It's not even efficient enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#17. It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
#18. The planet where the Borg originated," she answered.
Kirsten Beyer
#19. I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class America.
Robyn Bachar
#20. They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
Jeri Ryan
#21. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.
Bjorn Borg
#22. I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
Flula Borg
#23. None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.
Anita Borg
#24. The ball is round, the game is long.
Bjorn Borg
#25. I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.
Bjorn Borg
#26. It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
Bjorn Borg
#27. The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing.
Marcus J. Borg
#29. I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
Flula Borg
#30. God's dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.
Marcus Borg
#31. Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again
Bjorn Borg
#32. You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.
Bjorn Borg
#33. On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.
Bjorn Borg
#34. Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
Marcus J. Borg
#35. Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.
Marcus J. Borg
#36. I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
Bjorn Borg
#37. I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.
Todd Borg
#38. The end is but a new beginning for the eternal Ba.
Inge H. Borg
#39. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.
Bjorn Borg
#40. Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.
Anders Borg
#41. Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife
Marcus J. Borg
#42. The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.
Anita Borg
#43. I believe women think differently.
Anita Borg
#44. To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.
Marcus J. Borg
#45. I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
Flula Borg
#46. The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.
Marcus J. Borg
#47. Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
Anita Borg
#48. Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
Anita Borg
#49. You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
Bjorn Borg
#50. When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
Flula Borg
#51. For Jesus, compassion was more than a quality of God and an individual virtue: it was a social paradigm, the core value for life in community. To put it boldly: compassion for Jesus was political.
Marcus J. Borg
#52. If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
Anita Borg
#53. When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.
Bjorn Borg
#54. I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
Flula Borg
#55. The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are not part of self proclamation of Jesus. This does not make them wrong. Rather, they are the voice of the community, statements about what people around Jesus thought of him.
Marcus Borg
#56. Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.
Marcus J. Borg
#57. Being Christian doesn't mean being anti-American, but it does mean that Christian identity and loyalty matter more than national identity and loyalty. When there is a conflict, Jesus is Lord.
Marcus J. Borg
#58. I wanted to win, even in practice.
Bjorn Borg
#59. It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
Bjorn Borg
#61. How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?
Marcus J. Borg
#62. I like to make my name of songs strange.
Flula Borg
#63. Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.
Bjorn Borg
#64. He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.
Bjorn Borg
#65. To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Torah, and so forth.
Marcus Borg
#66. The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
Flula Borg
#67. The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.
Marcus Borg
#68. This vision of life is deeply centered in God, the sacred. So it was for Jesus. So it is in all of the enduring religions of the world. What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus.
Marcus J. Borg
#69. The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.
Marcus J. Borg
#70. Imagine that Christianity is about loving God,
Marcus Borg
#71. The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.
Anita Borg
#72. I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.
Bjorn Borg
#73. Stories can be true without being literally and factually true.
Marcus J. Borg
#74. More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.
Marcus J. Borg
#75. When I was a young college teacher in my mid-twenties, an older colleague delighted in characterizing post-Enlightenment theology as "flat-tire theology" - "All the pneuma has gone out of it.
Marcus J. Borg
#76. You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.
Bjorn Borg
#77. Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.
Marcus Borg
#78. But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.
Marcus J. Borg
#79. In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.
Marcus J. Borg
#80. Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
Anita Borg
#81. There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
Anita Borg
#83. If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.
Anita Borg
#84. So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.
Marcus J. Borg
#85. If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
Bjorn Borg
#86. Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
Flula Borg
#87. When we read Paul, we are reading somebody else's mail - and unless we know the situation being addressed, his letters can be quite opaque ... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.
Marcus J. Borg
#88. I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
Flula Borg
#89. When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.
Marcus J. Borg
#90. Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.
Anita Borg
#91. The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31)
Marcus J. Borg
#92. I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.
Bjorn Borg
#93. The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.
Anita Borg
#94. I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
Flula Borg
#95. It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear
Robert L J Borg
#96. My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg
#97. How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.
Marcus J. Borg
#98. Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.
Flula Borg
#99. We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
Anita Borg
#100. Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
Bjorn Borg
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