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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Barbara Jordan

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.

C.S. Lewis

She didn't want me; she wanted all of me. I didn't mind saying it. My girlfriend scared the crap out of me.

T.J. Forrester

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Erica Jong

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Edmund Burke

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

Robin McKinley

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

Geddy Lee

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

Jef Raskin