Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

Paul Gauguin

We've protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

Barack Obama

If sex were all, then every trembling handCould make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

Wallace Stevens

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

W. H. Auden

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Peter Farrelly

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Eddie Van Halen

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead