"If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?"

-- Joseph Epstein

#Mistake Quotes #Genius Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.”

Source : Speech at the House Judiciary hearing, www.cnet.com. April 24, 2008.
“But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.”
“My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!”
“You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.”
“As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.”
“In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.”

Source : Leo Bogart (1988). “James Webb Young Fund Address: By Leo Bogart”
“I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended”
“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”

Source : Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

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