Today Quotes

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

~ Chinua Achebe

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.

~ Bill Nye

If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.

~ Newt Gingrich

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

~ Will.i.am

I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.

~ Mark Goddard

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

~ James Dyson

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

~ Jaan Tallinn

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

~ Ralph Merkle

I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.

~ Walt Dohrn

Most computers today have built in backup software.

~ Barton Gellman

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

~ Peter Thiel

I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

~ Miguel De Icaza

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

~ Yael Naim

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

~ David Arquette

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.

~ Lennart Nilsson

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

~ Babe Ruth

I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

~ Joel Osteen

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

~ Christian Louboutin

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.

~ Jeremy Corbyn

Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.

~ Robbie Robertson

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

~ Claire Tomalin

I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

~ Leonard Maltin

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

~ Bobby Scott

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

~ Junior Seau

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

~ Patrick J. Kennedy

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

~ Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

~ Conan O'brien

I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

~ Lester Holt

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

~ Alexis Herman

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

~ Pope Paul Vi

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

~ Elbert Hubbard

I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.

~ Christy Turlington

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

~ Og Mandino

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

~ Barack Obama

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

~ Margaret Thatcher

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

~ William Osler

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

~ Bill Pascrell