My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Blaise Pascal

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never forget what you need to remember.

Garrett Bartley

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. Faith works by love.

Jonathan Edwards

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Virginia Woolf

There can be no truce between science and religion.

John B. S. Haldane