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You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.


Konrad Zuse

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It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
KONRAD ZUSE I am too lazy to be lazy.
ANONYMOUS The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
NICOLE KRAUSS Why do I like racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal.
KYLE PETTY I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working o...
MEG CABOT They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was inven...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invent...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
PETER DE VRIES They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was i...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little ...
BENICIO TORO I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little ...
BENICIO DEL TORO Or you could go pick it up yourself. We don't want to be too lazy.
LORNA KELLY I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn&...
LECH WALESA They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was i...
CLARE BOOTH LUCE The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN To be honest, our budget was too limited to have state of the art Western computer graphics. As I am...
CHEN KAIGE I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
ISABEL ALLENDE Lazy people fact #2347827309018287. You were too lazy to read that number.
ANONYMOUS I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'...
BENICIO DEL TORO So you want crazy? I invented crazy...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like ...
LECH WALESA I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like w...
LECH WALESA Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
DIANE LANE Don’t be too scared to calculate risks
SUNDAY ADELAJA Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky ...
JOHN LASSETER I have been told many times "Have you ever loved someone so much that you could not for the life of ...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR In Kenya, if you're late, the teacher will cane you. I was a bit lazy. I didn't see why I should wak...
LORNAH KIPLAGAT The ripple effect could be so great and far reaching that it is difficult to calculate the full impa...
LORENZO CARMON But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
ERNO RUBIK To the kidnappers, I would say, 'I know Tom could forgive you for the evil you've done.' I hope I wo...
CHUCK FAGER Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up.
Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.
ICE AGE There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm m...
AJAY DEVGAN I’m too selfish to leave you,” I said. Noah pulled back so I could see his smile. “I’m too s...
MICHELLE HODKIN Be the person today you were too lazy to be yesterday.
IHEARTINSPIRATION.COM Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say...
PARIS JACKSON Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I play...
KYGO The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG Yeah, but it was kind of neat, too. I said to myself, 'Yep, there's the old man. You could hear him ...
DAN KENNEDY Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can's say and you just walk away... I grieve in my c...
SARAH MCLACHLAN So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level ...
DEYTH BANGER If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
BETTE MIDLER What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I...
TED NELSON If you are too lazy to plow, don't expect a harvest. .
PROVERBS 20:4 I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but y...
MICHAEL SUMMERS My silence doesn't mean that I agree to what you say. It could be a sign of ignorance too.
PANCHATAPA GOSWAMI ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was inven...
PAUL BEATTY Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a ...
ARTHUR JR Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a ...
ARTHUR SULZBERGER JR I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote"
STEVEN WRIGHT One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
EARL MONROE She could talk to me any day...any time...And I could still say, "I was just thinking about you".
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy ...
JON FAVREAU I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a b...
EVAN DANDO I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
BETTE MIDLER There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their resea...
DOUGLAS PRESTON I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I...
KIERAN SCOTT But I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I...
BUDDY GUY Oh God, I thank God I could see him, I had some closure too, I got to say goodbye.
LEONARD JOHNSON I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa...
SOPHIE MARCEAU You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big t...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER We just don't have the numbers on what those sales taxes will be, ... I don't know how we could calc...
MIKE SIMPSON I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
TONY CURTIS Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the com...
STEPHEN HAWKING You say: "I'm bright and ambitious." Investor thinks: "That's a relief because I usually invest in s...
GUY KAWASAKI I can be a lazy dresser.
MICHAEL SHEEN I can be a lazy slob.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for St...
GARTH STEIN I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
NED VIZZINI When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start p...
MARTIN GARRIX You say: "I don't know much about your firm, but I thought I'd contact you anyway." Investor thinks:...
GUY KAWASAKI It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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