The Drunkard's Walk Quotes

#1. The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.

Leonard Mlodinow

#2. Don't tell me how you hate your new foster home. If they're not beating you, consider yourself lucky.

Janet Fitch

#3. I like a man what takes his time.

Mae West

#4. The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Bruce Perens

#5. Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

Brian Tracy

#6. Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.

Jay Samit

#7. Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

Benjamin Clementine

#8. Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Buzz Aldrin

#9. Sometimes it is the book that opens you. - Robertpriest

Robert Priest

#10. Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#11. Where we're at right here is the beginning of the end.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.

Abbie Hoffman

#13. There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

Donna Tartt

#14. Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.

Andrea Camilleri

#15. Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#16. I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

Michael Kenna

#17. Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

James Wolfe