#take

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gravitate #had #i #i think #life

I don't take criticism lying down. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#down #i #lying #take

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#am #bad #because #conscience #duty

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#long #nature #old #physical #physicist

There is so much that people take for granted. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#much #people #take #take for granted

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments. ↗

— Jack White

#bad #best #computers #easily #fix

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#because #could #decided #different #field

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#imagination #just #listen #music #own