Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Aristotle

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

Stephen King

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

Florence Earle Coates

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

Mehmet Oz

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

Henry David Thoreau

The surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

William O. Douglas

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Friedrich Schiller

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Jean Chretien

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

Henry David Thoreau