"Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it."

-- Grace Hopper

#Balance Quotes #Information Quotes #Process Quotes

“If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.”
“It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.”
“He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster
“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.
“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.”
“Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.”
“You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.”

Source : "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.
“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.”

Source : John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

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