“Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.”
Speech in Columbus, Ohio (3 October 1952); quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 429
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Nam June Paik (1932–2006) American video art pioneer
1970s <br class="br">Source: Douglas C. McGill, ART PEOPLE http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/arts/art-people.html, New York Times, October 3, 1986
“I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting.”
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934–2012) United States Army general
As quoted in I Fail to Miss Your Point (2007) by Jim O'Bryon, p. 409
“Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.”
Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) religious leader
Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960) mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the United States for most of his li…
Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 7
“The one job that machines cannot do is be a cruel plutocrat. That’s why humans are still needed.”
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
Review of Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/i-dont-care-what-happens-to-these-characters, 2015 <br class="br">2010s
“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Dilbert Blog, Sleepless in California, 2006-07-21, http://web.archive.org/20060814050102/dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/07/sleepless_in_ca.html, 2006-08-14 http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/07/sleepless_in_ca.html,
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
