All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul ; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away”
“One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. Journals A 126”
“There is a contrast of primary significance between Augustine and Pelagius. The former crushes everything in order to rebuild it again. The other addresses himself to man as he is. The first system, therefore, in respect to Christianity, falls into three stages: creation”
“There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. 17 January 1837”
“The Large Scale Structure of Space”
“I regard [the many worlds interpretation ] as self”
“When I hear the words 'Schrödinger's Cat' I reach for my gun.”
“The Quantum State of the Universe”
“Handicapped People and Science”
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. As quoted in Stephen Hawking's Universe (1985) by John Boslough, Ch. 7 : The Final Question, p. 77”
“There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary? As quoted in The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986) by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler . p. 444”
“If I have seen further than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. Der Spiegel”
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Der Spiegel”
“Interview: Stephen King”
“I work until beer o'clock. On his 9 to 5 writing day, as quoted in Time”
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Time”
“I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex”
“I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson . Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me. As quoted in an edition of I Am Legend”
“President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun”
“Stephen King's God trip”
“My Book About A Really Mean Car That Kills People Was Pretty Scary. But Not As Scary As Those Scary Republicans”
“YouTube is very addictive. I refused to put it on my favorite places because it's too easy to go there. Stephen King Visits YouTube”
“You think 'Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst', but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you. Joyland”
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“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”