“ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταμαι πλέον πλὴν βραχέος, ὅσον λόγον παρ᾽ ἑτέρου σοφοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἀποδέξασθαι μετρίως. I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.”
All Quotes
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“Theaetetus , 161b”
“Juana Inés de la Cruz”
“commercial , which ends with the announcer saying”
“We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream. Interview about the release of the Macintosh”
“You're ripping us off! I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us! Steve Jobs reactions on Microsoft Windows 1.0”
“It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300”
“Real artists ship. Epigram attributed to Steve Jobs during the development of the Macintosh, West of Eden by Frank Rose”
“They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen. On Pixar co”
“If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. On the early rivalry between Macintosh and "IBM”
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. On his expulsion from any position of authority at Apple, after having invited John Sculley to become CEO, as quoted in Playboy”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? A comment he made in persuading John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, as quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987) by John Sculley and John A. Byrne”
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. At a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple”
“I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art”
“Vincent's profession then was picture dealer at Goupil and Co. , with branches a. o. in The Hague, London and Paris”
“Vindt maar mooi zooveel je kunt, de meesten vinden niet genoeg mooi. Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful. From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [4]”
“Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [5]”
“I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is? From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [6]”
“Some time ago I saw a painting by Thijs Maris [= Matthijs Maris , one of the three brothers Maris, all three famous Dutch impressionist painters of the Hague School ] that reminded me of it. An old Dutch town with rows of brownish red houses with step”
“There was a sale here [in Paris] of drawings by Millet , I don't know whether I've already written to you about it. When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where they were exhibited, I felt something akin to: 'Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground' [Bible”
“My dear Theo, Feeling, even a fine feeling, for the beauties of nature isn't the same as religious feeling, although I believe that the two are closely connected. The same is true of a feeling for art. Don't give in to that too much either. Hold fast especially to your love for the firm [of the Paris' art dealers Goupil & C0 , where both brothers worked”
“If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet. In his letter to brother Theo from Welwyn, England, 17 June 1876; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh , edited by Alfred H. Barr ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, p. 17”
“as school teacher and lay preacher near London”
“Commentaires sur Corneille”
“L'homme doit être content, dit”
“Thoughts, remarks and observations”
“Lettres inédites de Voltaire,”
“L'amour est de toutes les passions la plus forte, parce qu'elle attaque à la fois la tête, le cœur et le corps. Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body. Le Dernier Volume Des Œuvres De Voltaire: Contes”
“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter. Written by Voltaire in an over”
“La vertu s'avilit à se justifier. Virtue is debased by self”