Good Thinking People Quotes

• Austin Rivers

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

• Thomas Bangalter / Electronic Musician

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

• Frances O'grady

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

• Steve Ballmer / Businessman

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

• Douglas Coupland / Novelist

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

• Mike Patton / Singer-Songwriter

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

• Nina Nesbitt / Singer-Songwriter

I couldn't get gigs because you need to be 18 in most venues. So I started doing videos. I wasn't thinking about getting a record deal, I just wanted to know if people thought I was good.

• John Hickenlooper / Governor Of Colorado

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

• Herbert A. Simon

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

• Floyd Abrams / Attorney

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

• Douglas Coupland / Novelist

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.