Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. K. Eric Drexler American Scientist More K. Eric Drexler Quotes 1
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington American President More George Washington Quotes 1
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts English Philosopher More Alan Watts Quotes 1
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. Denis Diderot French Editor More Denis Diderot Quotes 0
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. Richard Dooling American Novelist More Richard Dooling Quotes 0
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. Ethel Waters American Musician More Ethel Waters Quotes 0
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments. Tommy Shaw American Musician More Tommy Shaw Quotes 0
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. Billy Sheehan American Musician More Billy Sheehan Quotes 0
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. Tina Weymouth American Musician More Tina Weymouth Quotes 0
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order! Cassandra Wilson American Musician More Cassandra Wilson Quotes 0
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. Colin Wilson English Writer More Colin Wilson Quotes 0
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments. Bernie Worrell American Musician More Bernie Worrell Quotes 0
So here we are laughing about this one thing as we pick up instruments to start practice, and it can't help but carry over into what you do for first 30 minutes of making noise. We were into all that when we started putting down basic tracks for this recording, and it just went from there. Bill Ardison More Bill Ardison Quotes 0
Today we act to hold faceless companies accountable -- companies that create instruments of destruction -- for their failure to make products safer and to warn of their inherent dangers. Bill Campbell More Bill Campbell Quotes 0
These devices can disrupt normal operations of key cockpit instruments, especially Global Positioning System receivers, which are increasingly vital for safe landings. Bill Strauss More Bill Strauss Quotes 0
If you're president of Texas Instruments and you go into your board of directors and say, 'Next year, we're just going to keep our market share,' you're out, you're fired. Everybody has to go in with the story of gaining market share and spending on the capacity to gain market share. Of course, it all just doesn't add up. Bill McClean More Bill McClean Quotes 0
We are proud to announce National Instruments as a 'Company of the Year -- Small/Medium' finalist for the ACE Awards. The EE Times judging panel chose NI as a top five contender in a very competitive category of over 35 submissions. Brian Fuller More Brian Fuller Quotes 0
After the group got real popular, Fender asked us to endorse their instruments. I think the deal was they'd give them to you then you'd let them print ads and stuff like that. This was around 1962. Carl Wilson More Carl Wilson Quotes 0
Obviously, a terrible tragedy. They've lost animals, they've lost their structure, I understand there were irreplaceable instruments and so forth. So, very tragic for them. Chief Lee Soptich More Chief Lee Soptich Quotes 0
to stimulate discussion and promote further efforts at the development of market instruments to value employee stock options. Christopher Cox More Christopher Cox Quotes 0
A petting zoo is when they bring the baby animals out, and in this case, it's when they bring instruments kids can hear, and in some cases touch and play. Colleen Finnegan More Colleen Finnegan Quotes 0
Hick-hop is a combination of your traditional country instruments - the fiddle, banjo, the pedal steel guitar - and then I'm running off the mouth on top of all that, ... I just started doing it because I grew up singing to country music and rap and rock, and I combined all my favorite music together and came up with this. Cowboy Troy More Cowboy Troy Quotes 0
Semiconductors seem to have bottomed finally. It looks like you know we've passed the worst. Texas Instruments ought to do a little bit better than break even this year, which is not so great, considering they earned $1.73 on the year-ago. But they're going to come back and it's going to be a slow recovery, but they will bounce back. David Braverman More David Braverman Quotes 0
Between Texas Instruments, the rise in oil prices, and commodities, we got hit today. But the decline wasn't terrible. Last week we had nice gains, and today, we're kind of consolidating. Donald Selkin More Donald Selkin Quotes 0