Human Quotes

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

~ Alan Dershowitz

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

~ Satya Nadella

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

~ Bill Laswell

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

~ Robert Orben

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

~ Vint Cerf

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

~ Martin Rees

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

~ Ellen Ullman

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

~ Jacques Villeneuve

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

~ Seth Lloyd

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

~ Greg Egan

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

~ Francois-Henri Pinault

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

~ Taiye Selasi

There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.

~ Monica Johnson

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

~ Gene Roddenberry

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

~ Michael Korda

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.

~ Bill O'reilly

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

~ Corey Feldman

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

~ Samuel Butler

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

~ Margaret Mead

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

~ Xun Kuang

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

~ John Keats

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

~ Mason Cooley

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

~ William James

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

~ Aristotle

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

~ Harrison Ford

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

~ Antoni Gaudí

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

~ Hjalmar Branting

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

~ Samuel Adams

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

~ Salman Rushdie

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

~ Noam Chomsky

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

~ Donella Meadows

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

~ Galileo Galilei

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

~ Alexander Hamilton

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

~ Taylor Caldwell