"If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'"

-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Wall Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Hadrian Quotes

“The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.”
“We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.”
“The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.”
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
“A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence.”

Source : "Designing Interactions". Book by Bill Moggridge, chapter 7, www.designinginteractions.com. 2007.
“While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.”
“The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.”
“I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.”

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