The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.

Bonnie Jean Thornley

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Edith Wharton

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Donald Knuth

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction

Demetrius Phalerens

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Steve Cauthen

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Tony Visconti

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

John Buchan

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Dean Martin

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Alton Brown

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

Chris Brown

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Joseph Conrad

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Daniel Libeskind