#comp

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#religious #science #intelligence

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. ↗

— Milton Berle

#company #dollars #million #quarter #retiring

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ↗

— George Berkeley

#complain #dust #first #raised #see

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#confused #disappointing #few #few women #general

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#already #art #begun #completion #informs

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #come #companies #compete #competition

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#completely #context #enterprise #future #go

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ↗

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

#artificial-intelligence #computer-science #simile #intelligence

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#certain #commandment #compassionate #god #human