Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Kenneth Koch

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

George Bernard Shaw

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Harrison Christian, 1995 newspap

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

Steve Jobs

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Marcia Cross

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

William Faulkner

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for theyshall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.

Margery Allingham, The Tiger in