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"the subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful." »Steve Jobs
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"I am not a role model." »Mike Tyson
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"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion." »Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"People can have the model t in any colour--so long as it's black." »Henry Ford
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"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant." »Manfred Eigen
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"the finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them." »Susan Sontag
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"the distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a model t and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both." »Ronald Reagan
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"the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." »George Washington
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"the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." »George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
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"the sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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