For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. —Sophocles More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. —Marie Ebner von Eschenbach More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. —John Blake More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. —Epictetus More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conceit is God's gift to little men. —Bruce Barton More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. —Bernard Bailey More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. —Aesop More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. —Aesop More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. —Stephen Hawking More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. —Robert X. Cringely More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. —Robert Orben More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email