We should try to create the society we would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Herbert Hoover, Address at Des M

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Art Spiegelman

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.

Ogwo David Emenike

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

William Shakespeare

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Paul Reiser

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Mason Cooley

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

Russell Brand

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Eric Raymond

And that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

John Green

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Bernard Mandeville

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Aeschylus