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 study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

  Ronald Reagan

  Suicide, Gun, Average

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• The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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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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• My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Girlfriend, San Francisco

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.

  Julian Coolidge

  Country, Science, Mountain Peaks

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• I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mother, Daughter, Thinking

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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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• The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Philosophy, Moving, Technology

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• I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.

  Michael Faraday

  Strong, Philosophy, Teaching

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental researches in Chemistry and Physics ... Reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1821-1857; the Journal of the Royal Institution ... and other publications”, p.477

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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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