The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

— Chiang Kai-shek

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

— Bill Gates

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

— Albert Einstein

The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

— Orison Swett Marden

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

— Jonathan Mayhew

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

— Frederick William Robertson

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

— Muhammad Iqbal

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

— Eliza Farnham

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

— Walter Gropius

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

— H. L. Mencken