Notecards Quotes

#1. Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

Rick Smolan

#2. Gus screamed, the notecards falling out of his hand as he jumped. "Whoa," Bernice said. "That certainly was high-pitched for a man." "Gus is special that way," Betty said as she scooped up the cards off the counter.

T.J. Klune

#3. There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it ... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

Harry S. Truman

#4. I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Neil Patrick Harris

#5. If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

Kenneth Waltz

#6. Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Immanuel Kant

#7. When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

Meghan Daum

#8. People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline.

Shelly Branch

#9. Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.

Mother Teresa

#10. First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

Claude Chabrol

#11. If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.

James Purefoy

#12. I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

Herbie Mann

#13. Make sure you keep an inner state of flexibility, and are not tightly bound to your visions.

Kelly Martin

#14. I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football.
(on Euro 2004)

Andy Townsend

#15. One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.

Drew Gilpin Faust