As quoted in "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, in USA Today (31 January 2009)
“Is it wrong to pray for God to make me more successful so that I can be more humble?”
Robert J. Marks II (1950) American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent design advocate
If "knowledge puffs up," then we professors are in ever-present danger of having egos resembling threatened blow fish. <br class="br"> "Pascal's Prayer,", Robert J. Marks II, 2006-10-06, 2010-04-22 http://www.okstatefcfs.org/ministryminutes/10_9_2006Marks.htm,
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Dilip Sankarreddy Business professional
From the 2013 speech at Pecha Kutcha referring to his "Dilip for Malkajgiri" campaign. <br class="br"> Speech at Pecha Kutcha, Hyderabad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3MRP2afrYg <br class="br">Politics
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Darwin Among the Machines
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part III - The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit
Context: Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.
“Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Interview by David Remnick at the American Magazine Conference (23 October 2006) http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/barack_obama_i_inhaled_that_was_the_point_46068.asp <br class="br">2006
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto XXX, lines 118–120 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks by President Obama and President Kenyatta of Kenya in a Press Conference at Kenyan State House in Nairobi, Kenya (July 25, 2015) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/25/remarks-president-obama-and-president-kenyatta-kenya-press-conference <br class="br">2015
