This is a personal testimony, a testimony of my own experience of thought and life. It is not intended to be objective and makes no claim to establish eternal truths. In fact I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

I do engineering, not religion.

Daniel J. Bernstein

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Rita Warford

The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

Source Unknown

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

Lucy Powell

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

Joe Slovo

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

Kelly Cutrone

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley