The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Michel de Montaigne

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Judith Light

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Lord Chesterfield

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

W. H. Auden

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

Brigitte Boisselier

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

William Shakespeare

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Source Unknown

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

Tony Lema

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

Oscar Wilde

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Robert Rauschenberg