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Quotes About Limitation

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
~ William Shatner
You can't play forever.
~ Jim Thome
I had an instamatic wind-on camera and remember buying the flashcubes and fixing on top of the frame. The flash credits were limited so you had to be careful not to waste any.
~ Konnie Huq
Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.
~ Jack Monroe
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
~ Ted Nelson
We also need a fund that can say 'no'.
~ Rodrigo Rato
The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
~ Damon Lindelof
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]...
~ Foer
un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d'excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu'un goût de défaite.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
You can't imagine everything because you don't know everything there is to imagine.
~ Frank Beddor
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
~ Frank Herbert
Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate
~ Frank Herbert
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
~ Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
~ Frank Herbert
You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.
~ Frank Herbert
One can contemplate the Emperor and his powers comfortably if one remembers that all things are finite
~ Frank Herbert
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
~ Frank Herbert
Aceasta e aberaÈ›ia puterii: în ultim? instan?? este eficace numai într-un Univers absolut, limitat. Dar lecÈ›ia de c?p?tâi a Universului nostru relativist este c? lucrurile se schimb?. Orice putere trebuie s? înfrunte întotdeauna o putere mai mare.
~ Frank Herbert
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.
~ Frank Herbert
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind
~ Frank Herbert
Specialists are not to be trusted," Leto said. "Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow.
~ Frank Herbert
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers," Paul said. "Nothing. Nothing can be done.
~ Frank Herbert
La maggior parte delle discipline nascondono effetti negativi, essendo concepite non per liberare, bensì per limitare. Non chiedete Perché? E siate cauti col Come? Perché? conduce inesorabilmente al paradosso. Come? v'intrappola in un universo di causa ed effetto. Entrambi negano l'infinito. Gli Apocrifi di Arrakis
~ Frank Herbert
Probability is always an expression of the human limitation of knowledge and is never some facet of nature.
~ Frank J. Tipler