Conventional Quotes

You're finding more and more stealth applications because of zoning restrictions (on conventional towers). And sometimes, frankly, they're the only way to get service into an area. - John Simley

You try to manipulate the process. In Sacramento, I was very good at it, at getting legislation passed. And when I came to Washington I thought that I was going to approach it differently. That the conventional wisdom was such that you had to not be confrontational, not challenge too much, but understand that there was great tradition. - Maxine Waters

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. - Martin Fleischmann

You open up a conventional cellular network to IP services, and the best way to describe what [it] does to a cellular network in terms of security is that it opens up huge holes. - Iain Gillott

You hear all the benefits, and you wonder why everyone isn't building green. Conventional building is throwing money away. - Dan Abel

You get to a point where you identify everybody you can by conventional means, and we've really pretty much gotten to the end of the road on that. The fact that we have been able to identify close to 90 percent of these people working under these conditions is nothing short of remarkable. - Chuck Smith

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way. - Terry Southern

You can't conform in business... If you adhere to conventional wisdom, if you do everything everyone else does, you're going to lose, The only way to get ahead, to really get ahead. is to be different. - Larry Ellison

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. - John Maynard Keynes

Worked so far out beyond the frontiers of conventional studio art that they have no names themselves for the forms they create. - Tom Wolfe