All Quotes

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
‐‐ Kurt Russell

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
‐‐ Janis Ian

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
‐‐ Tomas Transtromer

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
‐‐ Carol Alt

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
‐‐ Bernard Tschumi

Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Society tends to always make multiples - whether it's twins or triplets or whatever - one person. And it's not always fair. I encourage multiples to embrace their individual uniqueness because, just as you are an amazing unit together, that can only happen when you are strong individually.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
‐‐ Voltaire

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
‐‐ Johnny Otis

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

Sociological critics are waste makers.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
‐‐ Moses Mendelssohn

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
‐‐ Moses Mendelssohn

Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts of sodium, almost 80 percent of which comes from processed and restaurant foods.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.
‐‐ Dorothy Kilgallen

Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
‐‐ Judith Wright

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
‐‐ Frederick Tennyson

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
‐‐ Brian Behlendorf

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
‐‐ Ken Olsen

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
‐‐ David Byrne

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
‐‐ Jamie Zawinski

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?
‐‐ Mike Krieger

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
‐‐ Dan Kaminsky

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
‐‐ Andre Balazs

Sohu will protect you from yourself.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon