Richard Hamming Quotes

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Sometimes a President seems greater after he has left office than while he was in it.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.

I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.