Quote of the dayAugust 16
Quotes for August 1647 quotes · 40 authors
The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 16: the anniversary does not move.
- Boredom: the desire for desires.
4.5 · 50 votes · 30 reads
- Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis DiderotPhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century
4.1 · 51 votes · 30 reads
- I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'
Matt GroeningCartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century
4.8 · 44 votes · 77 reads
- Make sure somebody need you.
3.1 · 25 votes · 189 reads
- The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only compan
Steve JobsBusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.2 · 35 votes · 111 reads
- The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbours, and will come together as human beings.
PythagorasMathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC
5.0 · 59 votes · 47 reads
- Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.
3.6 · 44 votes · 124 reads
