P 299 Quotes

#1. There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)

Edward Jay Epstein

#2. But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade."

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Veronica Roth

#3. Given his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan, I think I myself, our commanders, and our troops had expected more commitment to the cause and more passion for it from him. ...I never doubted Obama's support for the troops, only his support for their mission." Pg. 299

Robert M. Gates

#4. IMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

Steve Jobs

#5. The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

Al Davis

#6. One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.

Jodi Kantor

#7. Redemption is participatory, not imitative.

Richard F. Lovelace

#8. Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

Howard Pattee

#9. Phoebe, don't play coy. If you were willing to give a peeping Tom a show, and you thought you were doing it for my benefit, then let's cut the pretend out of this and shoot straight for cold hard honesty

Poppet

#10. I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

Schuyler Fisk

#11. That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Scott Westerfeld

#12. Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.

Warren Spector

#13. With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#14. Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

Karen Salmansohn

#15. The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.

Millard Kaufman

#16. It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

Sarah Dessen