#lever

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #discern #discover #fool #man

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ↗

— Terence

#common #common sense #grand #grand thing #sense

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#agree #because #competition #could #cover

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. ↗

— Brian Celio

#except #i #i write #my own #obviously

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#boy #clever #form #head #i