quotations about rules
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Power of Myth
My feeling is the rules are the rules.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
"Christie on Fiorina Debate Exclusion", Breitbart, February 6, 2016
If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules.
ANONYMOUS
It's a game and it's not fair--it's not fair--but if you know the rules, you can increase your chance of success.
NARETHA HOPSON
"Etiquette maven relates manners to career advancement", Virgin Islands Daily News, October 15, 2017
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT
Getting On
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
NORA EPHRON
Commencement Address at Wellesley College, 1996
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK
attributed, The Blackie Sherrod Collection
Cannot say, I'm breaking the rules
If I can glue them back together
MARILYN MANSON
"Warship My Wreck"
If adopting a rule is a time-consuming, bureaucratic process, involving detailed fact-finding, cost-benefit analysis, and comment periods, undoing those rules is also cumbersome.
AMANDA PAULSON
"EPA's big shift: Will Scott Pruitt fundamentally change environmental protection?", Christian Science Monitor, October 3, 2017