I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katherine F. Gerould

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

George Bernard Shaw

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

James Fallows

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

It is a fantastic letter. Very understated. He calls it an optical maser, it's as if a maser was made to run in the optical. No flamboyant phrase, just straightforward science.

Peter Franken

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

Criss Jami

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Will Rogers

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Tim O'Reilly