Rebstock Ergingen Quotes

Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. ~ Brad Stone

Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of the development of moral systems; there's a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgment and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range. ~ Noam Chomsky

I shook my head. "The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago," said I, speaking as seriously as he had done. "And not even in Hay Lane, or the fields about it, could you find a trace of them. I don't think either summer or harvest, or winter moon, will ever shine on their revels more." Mrs. Fairfax had dropped her ~ Charlotte Bronte

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. ~ David Gross

Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force. ~ Jacob Needleman

The lesson is never learned - there will always be those who persist in seeking the Fountain of Youth, or at least delaying what is irrevocably ordained. ~ Sherwin B. Nuland

I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown away in the rest of the world 10 years before. ~ Azim Premji

Of course the reason that the Authorities have banned the stuff is not so much the detrimental effect on one's health, however genuine that might be, but rather that those who regularly partake in the illicit herb tend to lose all interest in playing the game by other people's rules. And that is in direct contravention of the Commandments, the first of which is: Thou shalt play the Game by the rules; the second being: Thou shalt not drop out of the Game. ~ H.M. Forester

We live, oblivious of the reality that grief is an incessant stream that flows into our life time and again and brings all those boulders back, which we had discarded in the hope of never meeting again. ~ Balroop Singh

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. ~ John Steinbeck

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I believe Americans have a strong work ethic. ~ Tim Scott

Things were different now, of course; those solitary hours he'd once savored had become a prison for him, a commonplace. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri