Department Quotes

• [Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Culture, Care

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

  Charles Babbage

  Medicine, Branches, Chemistry

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.12

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• I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Email, Use

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• In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

  Helen Zille

  Children, Essence, Class

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• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Use, Microsoft, Demand

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• I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it. Give it to them. Don't hide it and tell lies and make stories. They're not stupid....It's their information. It doesn't belong to the Army or the Department of Defence. If it's classified, take the classification off and give it to them!

  Philip J. Corso

  Country, Military, Lying

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• We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

  Jerry Moran

  Agriculture, Farmers And Ranchers, Needs

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• I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Mother, Kids, Santa

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• Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?

  Rita Hayworth

  Coffee, Makeup, Bed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

  Helen Fisher

  Clothes, Sheep, Dinner

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• Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

  Paul Robeson

  Travel, Years, Independence

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

  Lauren Hutton

  Makeup, Lasts, Needs

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• Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'

  Dave Barry

  Exercise, Snickers, Tiny

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Vegetables

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

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• Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Talking, Stamp Collecting

  "Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists". Book by John Daintith, Third Edition, p. 662, 2008.

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• The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Anyone who thought he had a bright idea rushed out to try it out on a colleague. Groups of two or more could be seen every day in offices, before blackboards or even in corridors, arguing vehemently about these 'brain storms.' It is doubtful whether any paper ever emerged for publication that had not run the gauntlet of such criticism. The whole department thus became far greater than the sum of its individual members.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Running, Science, Ideas

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• Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Office, Preparation

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.78, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
  We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Engineering, Years

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• The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.

  John Herschel

  Country, Mean, Science

  "Memoir of Francis Baily".

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• While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Science, Race, Hands

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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• Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

  Humphry Davy

  Philosophy, Science, Mind

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• I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Believe, Character

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