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"musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace." »Plato
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"The ways in which senior executives allocate, manage and position their new digital assets and knowledge resources will have a strong bearing on the firm's ability to compete successfully in today's global digital economy." »Med Yones
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"Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." »This Is Spinal Tap
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"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience." »John Cage
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"But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument." »Andrew Schneider
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"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man." »Erich Fromm
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"The days of the digital watch are numbered." »Tom Stoppard
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"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)" »Douglas Noel Adams
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." »Donald E. Knuth
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold." »Susanne Millen
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." »George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself." »Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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"Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..." »Dean Gordon Brown
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"Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..." »Dean Gordon Brown
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"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." »Alanis Morissette
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"Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." »J. S . Bach
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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas." »Samuel Johnson
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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." »Stuart Seaton
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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