Barry O'Sullivan famous quotes

Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.
-- Barry O'Sullivan

#Past #Pioneers #Alternatives

Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
-- Barry O'Sullivan

#Agriculture #People #Might

No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.
-- Barry O'Sullivan

#Want #Failing

We can't help everybody. You can't keep everyone alive.
-- Barry O'Sullivan

#Alive

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.
-- Barry O'Sullivan

#Dog #Kangaroos #Fortune

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.