Quotes About Influence

Soon everyone spoke German the way Luther's translation did. As television has had a homogenizing effect on the accents and dialects of Americans, watering down accents and sanding down sharp twangs, Luther's Bible created a single German tongue.

No sooner is a playhouse opened in any part of the Kingdom than it at once becomes surrounded by a halo of brothels.

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.

New customers come from the actions of past customers.

good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

Another vital factor was the development of a leadership style and set of cooperative customs that could allow developers to attract co-developers and get maximum leverage out of the medium.

When the superior programmer refrains from coding, his force is felt for a thousand miles.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century ( Hermite , 1822-1901) could say without exaggeration, ' Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils.

Commenting on the return of Descartes' remains to his native France, Jacobi remarks that "It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime.

Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it's that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.

Statistically, half of all humans are below median intelligence and easily led astray by the ten percent who combine above average intelligence with a defective sense of ethics.

Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.

it was not in gaining the power where the danger lay. It was in allowing the power to destroy you.

Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. —Boris Karpov

enabling that transition was my close friend and colleague Dietmar Harhoff.

contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and

Je ne trouve de noblesse que dans la canaille que J'ai négligée, et de canaille que dans la noblesse que J'ai faite. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.