Quotes About Influence

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.

It is essential to a politician that he should have his firmest friends among the fools, or his climbing days will soon be over.

Jesus quickly decided, as these men all decide, that the power must be used for the benefit of the race.

The debate in Australia over China has long been framed by a number of influential essays by Hugh White, a former bureaucrat and academic. White's thesis is summed up by the title of one of his books, The China Choice, which argued that Australia's refusal

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents.

One thing most software architects fail to realize is that a software architect is also a leader.

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations.

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations. Studies of software projects show over two-thirds of them either are outright failures or deliver unsuccessfully (deadline slip, budget overruns, or low customer satisfaction). Many of the root causes point to improper decisions software architects made, or failures of follow-through on the right architectural decisions.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

By the time Rockefeller left office in 1973, SUNY was the world's largest university system, with a quarter million students attending classes on sixty-four campuses. For

It seems like the value you attribute to something, more than its inherent value, influences your expectations, and your expectations, to a great extent, influence the life you live.

All television is children's television.

To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.

Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all—and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.

Someday you may be celebrated, but it might not be in your lifetime. Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.