Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Vannevar Bush

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Billie Joe Armstrong

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Dick Gregory

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman.

Anon.

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

Edward W. Howe

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Hesiod

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Annie Lennox

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Archie Shepp