Trevor Herriot Quotes

#1. The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

Leslie White

#2. I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

Robert Browning

#4. And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for.

Andres Neuman

#5. The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#6. The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

J.K. Rowling

#7. Do you have a secret life? This is what she asks all her friends.

Jenny Offill

#8. I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

Rick Bass

#9. I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

John Quincy Adams

#10. In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

James Surowiecki

#11. I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

Ezra Miller

#12. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

William James