Crispin Sartwell Quotes

#1. For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

Joel Spolsky

#4. Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.

Aziz Ansari

#5. The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

Simon Cowell

#6. I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

Cory Bernardi

#7. In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Tyler Cowen

#8. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice - the power of change, the essential function of life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Nancy Roman

#10. Take what you need, and find solace where you can.

Crispin Sartwell

#11. Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from expressing their views is no preparation for exercising those rights.

Crispin Sartwell