A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Watching my sister glowing I wonder why, if the sun is so warm, it doesn't dry her tears. Sunlight is supposed to do that, I think, sunlight should dry all the rain.

Jillian Madoff

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward Thorndike

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

Graham Nash

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Drake

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

C.S. Lewis

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Friedrich Schiller

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Buddha

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Quentin Tarantino

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Jules Renard