Top 100 Quotes About Norbert
#1. After three or four hours of chomping and chewing, Norbert realised that he was very thirsty.
James Sutherland
#2. to the castle feeling Saturday couldn't come quickly enough. They would have felt sorry for Hagrid when the time came for him to say good-bye to Norbert if they hadn't been
J.K. Rowling
#3. Belief is a dangerous thing," Norbert said. "It can blind you. It can consume you. It can make you unable to admit you're wrong.
Alex Siegel
#4. Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
"Wha
Norbert's a girl?"
"Oh yeah," said Charlie.
"How can you tell?" asked Hermoine.
"They're a lot more vicious," said Charlie.
J.K. Rowling
#6. If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.
Dave Barry
#7. Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
Claude Shannon
#8. Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson ... Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
Sydney J. Harris
#9. How's Norbert doin'?"
Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
Wha - Norbert's a girl?
J.K. Rowling
#10. Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group.
Norbert Reithofer
#11. I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.
Norbert Reithofer
#12. One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
Norbert Wiener
#13. In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.
Norbert Wiener
#14. We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.
Norbert Wiener
#15. If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
Norbert Leo Butz
#18. Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.
Norbert Wiener
#19. The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market.
Norbert Reithofer
#20. The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
Norbert Wiener
#21. Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
Norbert Wiener
#22. The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
#23. Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.
Norbert Reithofer
#24. A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent
Norbert Wiener
#25. There is one quality more important than know-how ... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.
Norbert Wiener
#26. As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.
Norbert Reithofer
#27. If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
Norbert Leo Butz
#28. In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.
Norbert Leo Butz
#29. It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
Norbert Wiener
#30. The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
Norbert Wiener
#31. The science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
Norbert Wiener
#32. The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
Norbert Wiener
#33. A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
Norbert Wiener
#34. O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!
Norbert Of Xanten
#35. Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility
Norbert Reithofer
#36. A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.
Norbert Wiener
#37. Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence ...
Norbert Lynton
#38. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
Norbert Wiener
#39. To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Norbert Wiener
#40. Since Brazil became a democracy in 1975 over 1700 Activists and small Farmers have been murdered in Brazil alone over land reforms and the rainforest !
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
#41. Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.
Norbert Reithofer
#42. The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
Norbert Wiener
#43. Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
Norbert Wiener
#44. I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.
Norbert Elias
#45. The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.
Norbert Wiener
#46. If you, as CEO, have recognized an approach as being the right one, you have to pursue it consistently, even if some people disagree. But it is now clear to everyone that we, as an automaker, have no alternative but to take [environmental protection] course.
Norbert Reithofer
#47. The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying ... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.
Norbert Wiener
#48. A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
Norbert Lynton
#49. I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
Norbert Bisky
#50. In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy
Norbert Wiener
#51. You give a poet a bucket of worms, he'll probably put the whole bucket on the end of the hook.
Norbert Blei
#52. Communication engineering began with Gauss, Wheatstone, and the first telegraphers.
Norbert Wiener
#53. to go on waiting for the right moment in the hope that it would never come
Norbert Gstrein
#55. We will continue to offer the most dynamic vehicles in the future. However, we have also made it our mission to be sustainable as a company.
Norbert Reithofer
#56. BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.
Norbert Reithofer
#57. I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!
Norbert Bisky
#58. Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.
Norbert Wiener
#60. I enjoyed the freedom they gave me - to write about almost any damned thing that came into my mind, whether it was crime, science fiction, western, fantasy or sports.
Norbert Davis
#61. The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.
Norbert Wiener
#62. One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.
Norbert Reithofer
#63. It isn't a given that the companies that provide mobility today will also be the ones to do so tomorrow. Every company has to work hard to make this happen.
Norbert Reithofer
#64. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.
Norbert Leo Butz
#65. There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.
Norbert Bisky
#66. We have used so much polyethylene ( plastic ) since the invention of this oil derivative that plastic broken down has over time completely changed the molecular structure of seawater .
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
#67. The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener
#68. I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'
Norbert Leo Butz
#69. Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
Norbert Elias
#70. Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
Norbert Wiener
#71. As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.
Norbert Reithofer
#72. What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
Norbert Wiener
#74. There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.
Norbert Bisky
#75. I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.
Norbert Reithofer
#76. It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.
Norbert Bisky
#77. Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.
Norbert Wiener
#78. A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.
Norbert Wiener
#79. The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.
Norbert Wiener
#80. The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.
Norbert Wiener
#82. In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're good and I trust that wherever you are and whatever you do, you will do it right.
Norbert Bisky
#83. We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.
Norbert Wiener
#85. Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.
Norbert Wiener
#86. Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Norbert Wiener
#88. We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have it developed if, contrary to expectations, it did not turn a profit in its first life cycle.
Norbert Reithofer
#89. If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.
Norbert Wiener
#90. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.
Norbert Wiener
#91. Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually in terms of the success of this metaphor.
Norbert Wiener
#92. It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior ...
Norbert Wiener
#93. What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?
Norbert Lynton
#94. European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.
Norbert Reithofer
#95. The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
Norbert Wiener
#96. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
Norbert Wiener
#97. I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.
Norbert Leo Butz
#98. Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
Norbert Wiener
#99. You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
Norbert Of Xanten
#100. I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
Norbert Wiener
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