C. H. Douglas Quotes

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

There is much to be said for solitude.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.