Georges Pompidou famous quotes

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
-- Georges Pompidou

#Technology #Sisterhood #Gambling

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
-- Georges Pompidou

#Inspirational #Politician

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
-- Georges Pompidou

#Adults #Students #Dangerous

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
-- Georges Pompidou

#Men #Gambling #Listening

Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
-- Georges Pompidou

#Dream #San Francisco #Cities

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
-- Georges Pompidou

#World #Clock #Expected

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
-- Georges Pompidou

#Gambling #Three #Calling

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.