It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

There is no mystery attached to the fact that, in this new era in human history, when for the first time large numbers of people can live unconstrained lives involving high levels of choice, there is a concurrent explosion in depression rates. The burden of responsibility for making innumerable choices can result in a person's becoming psychologically tyrannized by them.

Gregg D. Jacobs, The Ancestral M

(Referring to a glass of water:) I mixed this myself. Twoparts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

Steven Wright

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

Pete Waterman

He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

William Ellery Channing

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

Marina Lewycka

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Thomas Hood

Love those you hate you.

Leo Tolstoy

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Russell Hoban