The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

John Podhoretz

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Craig Bruce

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Michael R. LeGault

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Harry von Zell

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Richard Selzer

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

Pat Conroy

Love alone could waken love.

Pearl Buck

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

Alton Brown

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Giambattista Vico

How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.

Hermann Hesse