Quotes About History

Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

To those in the executive branch who say 'just trust us' when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, 'Remember your history.'

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.