An exceptionally good mastery of one’s native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

So much of design is context.

Steve Madden

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

Toba Beta

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Otto von Bismarck

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

Henry David Thoreau

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

Hugh Leonard

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Elizabeth Peters

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Helen Rowland

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Elisabeth KublerRoss

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Jane D. Hull

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Walter Lippmann