Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the form of condemning other governments, never their own.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.
