Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Mark Twain

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

George Eliot

What is magic?There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Terry Pratchett

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

William Osler

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Heraclitus

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan Quayle

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

Oscar Wilde

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire