As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Lord Northcliffe

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Steve Allen

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

Thom Yorke

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Jack Kevorkian

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Jenny Shipley

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Ellen Page

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . . and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Bruce Jenner, In Can't Stop the

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

George Bernard Shaw

But I could tell thee of other things, , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

Ernest Hemingway