Quotes by Charles Hughes

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.””

“A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of law, to the intelligence of a future day when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting justice believes the court to have been betrayed.””

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.””

“When we lose the right to be diffrent, we lose the right to be free.””

“Well, it was right in there where I lost him. That traffic circle is where he tore his britches. I never saw him after that. He has no chin, you know.” “You told me that.” “Captain Hughes of the Rangers used to say that if they ever hanged old Ski they would have to put the rope under his nose.””

“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.””

“Lazlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, made the following comments in an interview published by the New York Times in June 2013: “One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s (grade point averages) are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore…. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.” Doing well in college”