A Quote by Theo Paphitis

The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.

Theo Paphitis

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Communication Achilles Air Also Become Drivel Ease Great Heel Meaningless Virtue Web

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Theo Paphitis
British - Businessman
Born: September 24, 1959

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

Woody Allen

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

Tim Berners-Lee

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

Charles Lindbergh

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Jo Nesbo

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

Jo Nesbo

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

James Callis

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

James Lovelock

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

James Lovelock

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

Joe Biden

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Arthur Erickson

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Robert Anton Wilson

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

Condoleezza Rice

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

John F. Kerry

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.