Allpar Quotes of the Past
Do you like our thought-provoking quotes and want to catch up on some you may have missed? Or do you want to be good and angry on demand about the political nature of quotes from John Adams and Teddy Roosevelt? Here’s your chance! Some are missing - not much we can do about that now, though. These are not in any sort of order.
Auto industry folk
The iPod has been a really big influence on automotive interiors. Think about an iPod or a Mac. It's supposed to be easy to understand. All the complexities are embedded.
Chrysler stylist Tyonek Stump
The company I came from definitely proves the strength of bottom-up management.
— Jim Press
When the Germans took over they froze product development, got rid of all the executives that had led Chrysler to victory ... and the $7 billion Chrysler had saved disappeared ... they pushed Chrysler into accepting Mitsubishi platforms and engine designs for its future cars, a big mistake. And they pushed the decision to kill Plymouth.
At Toyota, “global” means localizing production in principal markets.
People don’t want to be subservient to machines and systems. They react to inhuman working conditions in very human ways: by job-hopping, absenteeism, apathetic attitudes, antagonism, and even malicious mischief. ... We have educated them to regard themselves as mature adults, capable of making their own choices. Then we offer them virtually no choice in our overorganized industrial units. For eight hours a day they are regarded as children, ciphers, or potential problems and managed or controlled accordingly.
Pehr Gyllenhammar, President of Volvo, 1977
I think some people in the United States, in leading government circles, actually detest the American automobile industry.
Bob Lutz, 2006
What was happening was a predictable result, however, when the control of a consumer goods company moves into the hands of purely financial managers. Short-term profits are dramatically improved, but a lack of sensitivity for product, for markets and for customers sets in, which is usually detrimental to the long-term health of the corporation.
John DeLorean
I think all other things being equal, the American purchaser should ask himself or herself when they buy a vehicle, "What am I doing for the American economy here with my purchase?"
Bob Lutz, 2003
I'm a greenie now, because we've screwed up the earth without giving anything back to it. We've got to figure out new ways to burn less fuel.
Carroll Shelby
Americans feel they should be able to drive whatever they can afford, disregarding the fact that the sky — and our collective debt of foreign oil — is part of the public commons.
— Dan Neil (Detroit News)
If almost everybody who bought products was happy with them, there would be no [Ralph] Naders... A car dealer is judged by how many new cars he pushes out the front door and not how he services them in back.
John DeLorean
History is bunk.
Henry Ford, perhaps meaning that the history of Ford is bunk
Too few consumers complain beyond the dealer. Manufacturers know that every hurdle they create will make more consumers drop out.
Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety
You can't gauge reliability based only on a nameplate. Some automakers do have a better track record but individual models - especially newer ones - can have problems.
David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center
Behind all the motions, hearings and ongoing negotiations are the lives and livelihoods of thousands of our workers. These are honest, loyal, hard-working people who took a job at GM or Delphi and played by the rules. They cannot be blamed for pursuing the American dream. They expected us to live up to our promises and we fully intended to deliver. All of us have been caught short by fast-changing global economics. Our people are being severely impacted. I don't blame them for being frightened, uncertain or even angry. ...
We are reaping the harvest of years of putting more and more of our country's social costs on the backs of private employers. We lament the loss of jobs to foreign entities that sell goods to our consumers without those burdens. How long are we going to put up with it? Why do you think the next big Toyota assembly plant in North America is being built in Canada? The calculus of [pensions and] health-care costs might have been a major factor.
Plymouth was the heart and the soul of Walter Chrysler and his vision for his corporation. He didn’t buy Dodge to acquire Dodge per se. He did it to get the foundry so he would have the capacity to build Plymouth. He knew, and someone over at DCX ought to grasp this by now, that he needed an entry level, fully capable, highly dependable, comfortable car. ... DCX is adrift without a base to anchor the rest of the lines, as Plymouth did “in the day.”
Curtis Redgap (former dealership employee)
Despite a documented history of blowing their exorbitant profits on outlandish executive salaries and stock buybacks, and hoarding their bounty by avoiding technologies, policies and legislation that would protect the population and environment and lower fuel costs, Big Oil insists on transferring all of that responsibility on the auto companies.
Jason Vines, Chrysler PR
It is dangerous and obnoxious to use your lamps in a manner that creates glare for other drivers.
— Daniel Stern
If you find a defect in one of these, please set it aside, and get the address for the Smithsonian so we can send it there.
—Sign at the Plymouth assembly line (1950s)
I suspect the snotty Germans just don't think Chrysler is good enough to associate with their three-pointed Mercedes star. ... Chrysler was doing just fine without Daimler.
It was never fully explained, back in 1998, why [Chrysler] needed a global partner... rightsizing is more important than supersizing.
— Automotive News
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems
Lee Iaccoca
Swagger isn't courage. Tough talk isn't courage.
— Lee Iaccoca
Presidential
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
John Adams
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
All that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two.
Abraham Lincoln
Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.
President Glover Cleveland
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
President Woodrow Wilson
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
President Woodrow Wilson
No one ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
If worthless men are soemtimes at the head of affairs it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle.
John Adams
Public business, my son, must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.
John Adams
It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous I say, for so they will be to all posterity.
John Adams
Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity, our frugality, and our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritance to our children.
John Adams
Hamilton I know to be...as great a hypocrite as any in the U.S. His intrigues in the election I despise.
John Adams
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping…
Abigail Adams
This is now in general the great art of legislation at this place. To do a thing by assuming the appearance of preventing it. To prevent a thing but assuming that of doing it.
John Quincy Adams
America will be more prosperous and more secure when we are less dependent on foreign sources of energy.
George W. Bush
It is difficult to fight for freedom. But I also know how difficult it can be to bend long years of habit and custom to grant it. ... It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it has, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders, too. It is not just a question of guilt, although there is that. It is that men cannot live with a lie and not be stained by it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson after signing the Voting Rights Act
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Thomas Jefferson
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to [include], within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.
Thomas Jefferson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Thomas Jefferson
Management gurus and psychologists
Supervisors who believe interest in people is a luxury to be gained after productivity is raised tend to have low productivity.
Rensis Likert
In creating a viable corporate culture, a good example set by the chief executive is more powerful than a thousand words of injunction.
David J. Lu
Most human enterprises would collapse if subordinates did no more nor less than their supervisors specified…
Charles F. Kannel and Robert F. Kahn
Playing with identity is playing with fire.
Gail Sheehy
The girls on the production line may not understand solid state physics, but they sure do understand the problems of nailing that radar together.
Mark Shephard, Pres. of Texas Instruments (1968)
You can still get increased production by putting the screws on. The trouble is, it works for a while, then breaks down.
Rensis Likert
The unconscious is not troubled by contradictions. It is completely NONlogical…
Ruth L. Munroe
Famous scientists
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
Historical figures and leaders
[The] equipment ... among the most vital to our success ... were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2.5 ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously enough, none of these is designed for combat.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napolean Bonaparte
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napolean Bonaparte
Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you; you've got to make the damn thing work.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill
We have been too free with the word independence. We are dependent on each other…
Benjamin Rush
The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
Benjamin Franklin
Only a great genius can save a prince who undertakes to relieve his subjects after a long oppression. The evil, which was suffered patiently as inevitable, seems unendurable as soon as the idea of escaping from it is conceived.
Alexis DeTocqueville
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine
The only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry Stimson
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Religious folk
...throughout history, people have believed absurd and dangerous things because they did not have the inner strength and clarity to reject prevailing attitudes.
Rabbi Marc D. Angel
Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
Bacha ibn Paduka (11th century)
You always find excuses for your own misdeeds, so make some excuses for your neighbor, too
Baal Shem Tov
[God said:] Learn to do good; devote yourself to justice; aid the wronged. Uphold the rights of the orphan, defend the cause of the widow. ...
Ah, those who present darkness as light and light as darkness ... who are so wise in their own opinion, so clever in their own judgement! ... They are why the Lord’s anger was roused.
We recoil in disgust when terrorist organizations claim moral equivalency between suicide bombings against civilians and targeted military strikes against known militants. ... we cannot allow ourselves to become soulless Destroyers, even when we wage war especially when we wage war. ... the honor of our soldiers, of our country and of our faith, can be preserved only insofar as we strive mightily to distinguish between the enemy and the innocent. What will victory mean if achieved monstrously?
Jonathan Blake
Where are today's prophetic voices, challenging us to speak up in the face of injustice, waking us from our comfortable indifference? Where are the visionaries to demand a society in which the flood waters raise all of our boats, rather than drown the poor and the weak?
Rabbi Marla Feldman
The most controversial
It is important to understand how ruthless, bloodthirsty dictators think and work, so...
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Adolph Hitler
It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes.
Josef Stalin
John Steinbeck
The attacker usually finds himself a high moral or religious purpous. He is not attacking something; he is defending something.
Even Henry Ford in the depth of the Depression gave as his solution to that problem, “Everybody ought to roll up his sleeves and get to work.” …at this time, there was work for only about 70% of the total employable population.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
I don't drink often; but when I do, I drink to excess if I can
I don't often read criticism of my work and when I do I find it confusing.
But I don’t believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing.
When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses. In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the trouble.
(with regard to New Orleans school integration)
A Harvard man, a Yale man, a Stanford man—that is, the ideal—is as easily recognized as the tuna, and he has, by a process of elimination, survived the tests against idiocy and brilliance.
...the paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.
If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. Maybe we would not have to hurt one another just to keep our ego-chins above water.
We constantly rediscover the excellence of the architecture of our government. It has been proof not only against foreign attack but against our own stupidities, which are sometimes more dangerous.
The Adams family
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.
Scott Adams
People don't change their basic nature, they just accumulate more stuff upon which they can apply their stupidity, selfishness, and horniness. From this perspective, the future isn't hard to predict.
Scott Adams
With economics, you never have to worry that your degree will become less relevant over time. I mean, how the hell could it?
Scott Adams
If worthless men are soemtimes at the head of affairs it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle.
John Adams
Public business, my son, must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.
John Adams
It is glory to have broken such infamous orders. Infamous I say, for so they will be to all posterity.
John Adams
Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity, our frugality, and our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritance to our children.
John Adams
Hamilton I know to be...as great a hypocrite as any in the U.S. His intrigues in the election I despise.
John Adams
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping…
Abigail Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams
This is now in general the great art of legislation at this place. To do a thing by assuming the appearance of preventing it. To prevent a thing but assuming that of doing it.
John Quincy Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Technogeeks
President Nixon, who liked to wear a blue suit and keep a cozy fire burning in his White House hearth year round no matter what the outside temperature or impact on his (our) air conditioning bill, had decided we all should drive 55 miles per hour or less to save fuel ...
My friends in the press are not stupid, but they have bosses, and those bosses have commercial agendas...
Bob Cringely
There are no technological solutions to social problems.
Douglas Merrill
Google Tech Director
We don't need a lot of economic growth to address the problem of the world's poor. We put subsistence farmers out of business because that's our choice. Clean water would do more to alleviate disease than high tech medicine.
Bill Joy, Sun co-founder
Once the offshore companies realize they have the business development, design, manufacturing, and service skills, they'll begin asking themselves just what their U.S. partners are bringing to the table. This will bring about the emergence of new competitors among companies that were once partners...
Eric Lundquist
While computer-based electronic voting systems have the potential to improve the electoral process... many electronic voting systems have been evaluated by independent, generally-recognized experts and have been found to be poorly designed; developed using inferior software engineering processes; designed without (or with very limited) external audit capabilities; intended for operation without obvious protective measures; and deployed without rigorous, scientifically-designed testing. ... Convenience and speed of vote counting are no substitute for accuracy of results and trust in the process by all the electorate.
Association for Computing Machinery
1) Never, ever, ever let systems-level engineers do human interaction design unless they have displayed a proven secondary talent in that area.
2) Test your new product or service on at least one normal person, preferably 50 normal users, before release.
3) Don’t turn mechanical engineers/systems engineers into end-user customer service specialists. Their opinion of what represents good human-computer interaction tends to be a bit off-track.
Bruce Tognazzini
Throughout the world, exit polling is used to monitor the results where corrupt regimes are suspected of attempting to rig elections. Where the two agree, the elections are deemed legitimate; where they diverge sharply in favor of those in power, the implication is obvious. The situation in the US ... is regarded as so bad that it does not meet the most basic criteria for international observers.
http://www.planetwork.net/elections/exitpoll_map.html
In most cases, Microsoft's value proposition is hard to find - outside Microsoft-funded studies, that is.
Scot Peterson, eWeek
Even the prestigious Harvard Business Review got the basic facts of the origin of the Macintosh interface nearly backwards. This is especially distressing since Harvard teaches business partly through case studies. Fed fictions as facts, it is not unreasonable to fear that the students' understanding may suffer accordingly.
Jef Raskin
It's not that there aren't enough It workers and developers out there; it's that there aren't enough IT workers and developers out there who will work for low wage and who will forsake family and regular life to log 80-hour work weeks.
Jim Rapoza
If companies want to improve both the current and future IT labor pool, they are going to have to buckle down and do something they've been avoiding - start hiring all the talented and experienced workers who have been let go.
Jim Rapoza
What the world saw as bullying, Microsoft saw as survival tactics. Of course, bullying is still bullying no matter the excuse.
Bob Cringely
The rest: auto related
In The Great Gatsby, one of the things F. Scott Fitzgerald did to try to invest his narrator, Nick Carraway, with unquestioned credibility was to have him drive a Dodge Brothers [car] because it was the quintessentially honest auto of good taste without being ostentatious. He drove it across the valley of ashes every day on his commute.
B. Crowell
A recent study by the group of accidents in 2000 and 2001 showed that 87 occupants died for every million registered cars weighing 3,000 to 3,500 pounds. That was 22 percent fewer deaths than in any class of S.U.V. or pickup truck.
Danny Hakim
I believe a minivan is as functional as an SUV without the handling questions. It's typically a less-expensive vehicle. It's just not trendy.
Brian O'Neill
Most companies tend to disparage the competition.
Rich Hutchinson, on Chrysler’s promotion of the Caliber through Neon-bashing
The rest: the rest of the quotes
A thousand stories which the ignorant tell, and believe, die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip.
— Samuel Johnson
The man-on-the-street-reaction story provides a manifestation ... of the widespread tendency to present blather and call it news.
— John Allen Paulos
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I found out that the U.S. military uses Windows, and having realized this, I assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn’t secured it properly ... There were hackers from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Thailand... every night.
— Amateur hacker Gary McKinnon on breaking into to US military computers
Science may never come up with a better office communications system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
Find out who controls the definitions, and you have a pretty good clue who controls everything else.
Ellen Willis
If you had your life to live over again you'd need more money.
Construction Digest
The problem in America is not that the top hundred corporate presidents are violating the laws, though God knows they are. The problem is they’re making the laws.
Nicholas Johnson, FCC
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
Tom Clancy
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball
If America is too reliant on foreign oil, why not ask Americans to do their part to reduce that reliance? you haven't asked Congress for legislation to increase standards for corporate average fuel economy. Your Administration's latest action on fuel economy has the potential to make matters even worse.
Peter Coy
To prevent it from being damaged or stolen, democracy must be guarded with unremitting vigilance.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma freedom fighter
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger. No one questions it in calm days, because it is not needed. And the reverse is true also; only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed, it is most vital to justice.
Peace is good. But if you are interested in peace through force and without free discussion - that is to say, free utterance decently and in order-your interest in justice is slight. And peace without justice is tyranny, no matter how you may sugarcoat it with expedience. This state today is in more danger from suppression than from violence, because, in the end, suppression leads to violence. Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression. Whoever pleads for justice helps to keep the peace; and whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. When that is killed, brute meets brute on each side of the line.
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold - by voice, by posted card, by letter, or by press. Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White
I don't like the idea of 'buyer beware.' It was great in the 14th century, but I think we've moved beyond it.
Richard B. Clarke (eweek)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people
H.L. Mencken
It's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got!
Cheryl Crow
The picture, after all, is much more about the sharpness of the person standing behind the camera than the sharpness of the lens.
Peter Hennig
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
Carl Schurz
On the other hand I think the intuitive bottom line on the Macintosh versus PC productivity debate is actually pretty simple: I've never met a PC user whose focus on the job he or she was supposed to be doing wasn't significantly diluted by the need to accommodate the PC and its software, but I've never met a business Mac user who considered the machine anything other than a tool, like a telephone or typewriter, for getting the job done.
Paul Murphy
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Suppose you were an idiot ... and suppose you were a member of Congress... but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
You�re the one we voted for / So you must take the blame / For handing out responsibility / To men who are insane.
Arlo Guthrie
It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles A. Beard
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, [that cannot] be destroyed by ridicule, howsowever poor and witless.
Pudd’nhead Wilson (Mark Twain [Samuel Clements])
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
Martin Luther King
Would someone please show me the research or evidence that Americans are really resistant or adverse to the idea of plugging in their cars -- that they prefer to stand in the cold and spill gasoline on their hands?
Allen Bukoff
Seeing others around me change has helped me to change.
Broadway Community Client
Many things that are done surreptitiously cannot withstand the light of day.
Diane Ravitch (on textbook bias)
Great efforts are being made to falsify the record of the past and to make history a tool of propaganda.
Bernard Lewis
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling
[Institutional stockholders'] time horizon is shorter than even that of even the shortest-term managers. So I don't think it's right to think of [them] as shareholders of your company. They're investors who temporarily own securities in your company at a particular point in time. They're responsible for maximizing the stock value of their investments. You as the CEO are responsible for maximizing the long-term health of your company.
Clayton Christensen
Each citizen's share of [the national] debt is $27,637. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.17 billion per day since September 30, 2005!
... the United States would pay off $216 billion in debt this year, bringing to $355 billion the amount of the nation's debt paid down in the three years since the government balanced the budget and began running surpluses.
John King, May 1, 2000
I've never been able to understand how running up the largest national debt in history is good for the economy, but I'm a member of that rapidly disappearing generation that was brought up to believe that eventually you are expected to pay your bills.
Ed Flynn
In the last election cycle, 84% of oil interest political contributions flowed to Republicans and 16% to Democrats, according to [the Center for Responsive Politics]. In return, Congress and the administration have paid little more than lip service to energy conservation steps. And as for closing many of the tax loopholes the energy industry enjoys? That hasn't even gotten lip service, it's been completely ignored.
There has been no new refinery construction in the U.S. since 1976. In fact, according to testimony presented to Congress in September 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency received only one application for construction of a new refinery from 1975 to 2000.
...putting more religion into government doesn't make it more moral; what it does is allow every cut-rate thief, liar, and hypocrite to hide behind the cloak of morality while committing immoral acts ... that would shame any real person of faith..
Tom Gilroy
Speed doesn’t kill.... lack of thought kills. Inattention kills. Disregard of your fellow human kills. But speed doesn't.
Plymouth is a true representative of automobiles of this century -- with the kind of lasting appeal that should still be in style fifty years from now.
—W.A. Anderson, 1957
The Dr Z ads ...ignore the Chrysler side, such as the new Sebring’s six speed automatic, developed totally by Chrysler. Or the Chrysler-developed platform under the M class and GL class. You will not see any ads touting how Chrysler has improved Mercedes’ cars and organization.
Jeremy Mutz
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty
Edward R. Murrow
What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust - of course [we] can’t - but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV.
Douglas Adams
The Valiant had a very good reputation for reliability, they said [in Sweden] that "it was so good that even a cop couldn't break it.”
Mattias Johansson
Make sure that you write not only to be understood, but so that you can not possibly be misunderstood.
Arthur G. Wake, P.E.
Former Indianapolis Traffic Engineer
Traffic engineers are motivated by a desire to control and a desire to remain employed. Safety comes third, and the rights and freedom of the people is not even on the list.
Apparently science has discovered something harder than diamond and Chrysler will be the first commercial user to incorporate it into their seats.
Gary S.
I’d love to see us have an energy policy that actually saves energy.
Blogs may be more like private journals with megaphones than reasoned contributions to public life.
Russell Jacoby
I cannot believe that killing, maiming, and starving our opponent, at great cost in men and money to ourselves, is the best way to convince him that we are not the monsters he has been told we are.
Charles Edison, 1966