Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

Source Unknown

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Enya

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

Harlan Miller

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dean Kamen

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Terry Pratchett

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?

Friedrich Hölderlin

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

Kazuo Ishiguro