"The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid."

-- Douglas Preston

#Wise Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Brutal Quotes

“Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.”
“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Source : "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg and Tom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.
“The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.”
“I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.”
“In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.”
“A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.”
“And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.”

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