David Macaulay famous quotes

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.
-- David Macaulay

#People #Looks #Way

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
-- David Macaulay

#Needs #Bliss #Novel

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
-- David Macaulay

#Book #Hard Work #Courses

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
-- David Macaulay

#Book #People #Trying

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
-- David Macaulay

#Fans #Bigs #Digestive System

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
-- David Macaulay

#Successful #Lucky #Attention

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

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.