If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

Barack Obama, Claiming Democrati

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Mark Twain

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; and, in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song. We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger; drawing forth a dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and, just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard: and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle: where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight. The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on; which makes a vast difference. The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.

Charles Dickens

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.

Silas Weir Mitchell

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

Janet Reno

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

Monica Bellucci

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Richard Feynman