Engelbart Douglas Quotes

#1. Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#2. The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#3. It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#4. The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#5. In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#6. These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#7. Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design ... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#8. The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. #Quote by Douglas Engelbart

#9. Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you. #Quote by Douglas Adams

#10. It's hard to learn to listen to your instincts. It's easier for some who have a natural ability to follow that little voice inside, but for others it takes practice. #Quote by Judith-Victoria Douglas

#11. Someone acts like a maniac does not necessarily mean he doesn't know exactly what he's doing #Quote by John E. Douglas

#12. That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending. #Quote by Michael Douglas

#13. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track. #Quote by Norah O'Donnell

#14. Most people don't get (or want) to look at old news footage, but we looked at thirty years of stories relating to motherhood. In the 1970s, with the exception of various welfare reform proposals, there was almost nothing in the network news about motherhood, working mothers, or childcare. And when you go back and watch news footage from 1972, for example, all you see is John Chancellor at NBC in black and white reading the news with no illustrating graphics, or Walter Cronkite sitting in front of a map of the world that one of the Rugrats could have drawn–that's it.

But by the 1980s, the explosion in the number of working mothers, the desperate need for day care, sci-fi level reproductive technologies, the discovery of how widespread child abuse was–all this was newsworthy. At the same time, the network news shows were becoming more flashy and sensationalistic in their efforts to compete with tabloid TV offerings like A Current Affair and America's Most Wanted. NBC, for example introduced a story about day care centers in 1984 with a beat-up Raggedy Ann doll lying limp next to a chair with the huge words Child Abuse scrawled next to her in what appeared to be Charles Manson's handwriting. So stories that were titillating, that could be really tarted up, that were about children and sex, or children and violence–well, they just got more coverage than why Senator Rope-a-Dope refused to vote for decent day care. From the McMartin day-care scandal and missing children #Quote by Susan J. Douglas

#15. I think he probably wants you to play Scrabble with him again,' said Ford, 'he's pointing to the letters.'
'Probably spelt crzjgrdwldiwdc again, I keep on telling him there's only one g in crzjgrdwldiwdc. #Quote by Douglas Adams

#16. Blaming public Christians for being 'too political' is like blaming Noah's ark for being 'too wet #Quote by Douglas Wilson

#17. Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#18. I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet. #Quote by Douglas Feith

#19. We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past. #Quote by Michael Douglas

#20. If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. It's a continual hokey-pokey. #Quote by Douglas Carter Beane

#21. Strong words are required for weak principles. #Quote by Douglas Horton

#22. But though there are frequent misunderstandings between the Europeans and the Americans, at least we've had decades of shared movies and TV to help us get used to each other. Outside those bounds you can't make any assumptions at all. In China, for instance, the poet James Fenton was once stopped for having a light on his bicycle.
"How would it be," the police officer asked him severely, "if everybody did that? #Quote by Douglas Adams

#23. I personally cannot imagine that consciousness will be fully understood without reference to Godelian loops or level-crossing feedback loops. #Quote by Douglas R. Hofstadter

#24. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not. #Quote by Douglas Merrill

#25. What I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it
might just as well have been a snowy day in the country. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#26. I am a lifelong lover of form–content interplay, and this book is no exception. As with several of my previous books, I have had the chance to typeset it down to the finest level of detail, and my quest for visual elegance on each page has had countless repercussions on how I phrase my ideas. To some this may sound like the tail wagging the dog, but I think that attention to form improves anyone's writing. I hope that reading this book not only is stimulating intellectually but also is a pleasant visual experience. #Quote by Douglas R. Hofstadter

#27. There are plenty of people, in need of our attention, who have very little with which to repay us. But I feel that we are well within our rights if we cultivate the acquaintance of persons whom we have discovered to be in possession of specialized talents in the field of character-building. One such acquaintance may serve as a stimulant to us; another a sedative. One man laughs his fears and frets away and another growls at them. It is fortunate for us if we can recognize the exact effect that other people have on us. Then we know when to seek or avoid them. #Quote by Lloyd C. Douglas

#28. I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly. #Quote by Douglas R. Hofstadter

#29. It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#30. It looked like it, too, remembering the blanket of white over everything outside. How water kind of had a habit of quieting the world around me my entire life, and in one form or another, I sought it out and reveled in hiding behind it.

Looking over her shoulder, out the window, the snow fell, charging the air with a little more beauty, the animation making the Earth look alive even when everything else was still. A little more pretty. A little more peaceful. A little more cover. #Quote by Penelope Douglas

#31. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away #Quote by Douglas MacArthur

#32. I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#33. It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#34. Hubris and science are incompatible. #Quote by Douglas Preston

#35. If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#36. you shall learn, if you haven't already, that in life insubordination is not only necessary but even, at times, exhilarating. #Quote by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

#37. You kissed my hair while sticking me in the heart. But your house will break before I fall apart. -Punk #Quote by Penelope Douglas

#38. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. #Quote by Douglas Pagels

#39. Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#40. I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly past.' Douglas Adams #Quote by Tima Maria Lacoba

#41. The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith. #Quote by Douglas John Hall

#42. Nor could you clarify this confusion by assuming that the old man had been a victim of hallucination. Bartholomew wasn't that type of person. He was neither a liar nor a fool. #Quote by Lloyd C. Douglas

#43. To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people. #Quote by Douglas Wilson

#44. Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#45. As brothers and sister we knew instinctively that if we were going to stand in darkness, best we stand in a darkness we had made ourselves. #Quote by Douglas Coupland

#46. The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them. #Quote by Douglas Wilson