#nuisance

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#almost #been #biggest #considers #games

Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#death #misanthropy #nuisance #people #suicide

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#flashing #flashing lights #lights #nuisance #ten

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. ↗

— Andy Grove

#assembly line #bloody #build #chips #designed

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#correspondent #known #nuisance #service

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. ↗

— Frank Carson

#british #i #nuisance #rang #report

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#himself #individual #liberty #limited #make

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. ↗

— Plautus

#become #days #friend #guest #house

Property is a nuisance. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#property