What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Chris Hughes

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Niklaus Wirth

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie, Endless Night b

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

Larry Hagman

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

George Eliot

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Robert F. Kennedy

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Julius Caesar

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Tim Robbins

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon