#significance

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ↗

— Andy Grove

#along #came #could #internet #into

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#date #either #good #modern #music

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#force #genius #his #human #insignificance

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#always #believe #certain #china #deal

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#colours #emotional #full #i #saturated

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#catching #example #figures #had #illustrate

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#does #everything #instrument #little #man

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#genes #great #human #identifying #medical

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#billionaire #eat #got #i #make