Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything. Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.

Paulo Coelho

You know the real trouble with Unix? The real trouble is that it became so popular. It wasn’t meant to be popular.

Donald A. Norman

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.

Mikhail Strabo

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Norman Vincent Peale

Let's have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn

One does silly things when one is twelve.

Cassandra Clare

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Saul Bellow

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

Pope Benedict XVI

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

Andrew Lang

What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Larry Page

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas, The Oracle

But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Samuel Johnson