Hallvard Quotes

#1. 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

#2. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

Gene Roddenberry

#3. We're going' Anne said firmly.
So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'
Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

Philippa Gregory

#4. In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John Dvorak

#5. Her mother said, Every morning I go up on the roof at six o'clock and pray for twenty minutes. It keeps me from coming apart. Her mother said, Coming apart, coming apart--it's just a crazy thing I feel.

Dylan Landis

#6. When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

Sara Nelson

#7. I am interested in those truths that are yet unknown, it is only so that they might in time, be made known- or to put it more plainly, so that in time I might come to know them." P 502

Eleanor Catton

#8. An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

Dee Hock

#9. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.

Destin Bays

#12. The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

Vladislav Surkov

#13. I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

Hugh Bonneville