Konrad Zuse Quotes

#1. The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

Carolina Herrera

#2. You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

#3. To sell out the kingdom of heaven for power is a devil's bargain. It is the bargain that the narcissist makes.

Alexander Lowen

#4. The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

Konrad Zuse

#5. The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

Konrad Zuse

#6. Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Brad Pitt

#7. If this is what heaven feels like, then I've been damned to hell.

Tiffany Aleman

#8. It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

Konrad Zuse

#9. The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Konrad Zuse

#10. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.

Libba Bray

#11. I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

Chris Benz

#12. There's a reason girls yell 'fire' instead of 'rape', why we lie and say we have boyfriends instead of just saying 'no' when we're not interested. Because a lot of men respect another man's property more than they respect a woman's right to her own body. So

J.M. Darhower

#13. I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

Konrad Zuse

#14. I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

Paul Keating

#15. Sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Cecelia Ahern