She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Stephen King

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements;... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Alfred North Whitehead

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Julie Andrews

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Bernard De Voto

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Raoul Vaneigem

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

Mario Batali

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Emily Blunt

Ben Says: We can only help better humanity if we better ourselves first. Education, diligence, passion, charity~helping all we can, when we can...will go a long way towards making our world a better place.?Timothy PinaBullying Ben

Timothy Pina

We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Sherlock Holmes

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Fidel Castro