What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

You're right. Your decietfulness far exceeds my modest attempts at dishonesty. I bow-down to your superior duplicity.

Aleatha Romig

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Daniel Dennett

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

John Green

'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'

Charles Dickens

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Samuel Johnson

Jetzt habe ich es kapiert: Es geht nicht um Fortschritt. Es geht nicht um eine Erfahrung. Nein. Es geht in jedem einzelnen Moment einfach nur darum, in genau diesem Moment das Richtige zu tun.

Matthias B. Krause

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Bill Budge

He who laughs most, learns best.

John Cleese

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope, "Essay on Critic

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

Martin Luther