Quotes About Limitations

One must be humble enough to recognize one's limitations, to know when further knowledge is needed.

Cyborgification is simply the process of compensating technologically for the inherent limitations of natural man.

How little roomDo we take up in death that, living, knowNo bounds!

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is still born!

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Giovanna d'Arco aveva capeggiato un esercito quand'era poco più grande di Harriet, e nondimeno, il Natale scorso, suo padre le aveva regalato un offensivo gioco di società chiamato Cosa farò da grande? Era un gioco del tutto insulso, teso a indirizzare le future carriere delle partecipanti, ma per quanto bene una giocasse, soltanto quattro sbocchi le si paravano davanti: insegnante, ballerina, madre o infermiera.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

When I finally let someone into my narrow bed, the first thing I told her was what I could not do. I said, I can't fix it, girl. I can't fix anything. If you don't as me to fix it, you can ask anything else. If you can say what you need, I'll try to give it to you.

In the terms in which you set it, the problem is unanswerable; but in the Kingdom of Heaven, those terms do not apply. You have asked the question in a form that is much too limited; the 'solution' must be brought in from outside your sphere of reference altogether.

I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all-fours, or had eyes in one's knees, it would be a lot more practical.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

If this sounds like strange talk from a scientist—so be it. If there is one thing I have learned from a lifetime study of science, it is that the world is not a place we human beings will ever comprehend. Understand, yes; comprehend, no.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

I love animals, but I don't think I can have pets.

Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.

I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.