I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Arlo Guthrie

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

Kurt Vonnegut

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Charles Kuralt

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Paul Theroux

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

James Broughton

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

Steven Wright

If my life was a hole, it would be deep, filled with melancholy and sadness.

James Dye

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Deborah Cox

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Oscar Wilde

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Friedrich von Schiller