My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Edsger Dijkstra

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Ralph Hodgson

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.

David Hume

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Tad Williams

Best way to describe life could be suffering from your past or could just be a moment spend with heart full of satisfaction.

Santosh Kalwar

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Albert Einstein

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

If one party resolves to demand what the other resolves to refuse, the dispute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common superior, there is no other arbitrator than the sword

Samuel Johnson

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Alan Ayckbourn