What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Andy Goldsworthy

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

Derek Jarman

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Jane Austen

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate ?

Albert Camus

When the tide of life turns against youAnd the current upsets your boat,Don't waste tears on what might have been,Just lie on your back and float.

Anon.

The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Matt LeBlanc

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Paul Graham