The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) S Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig S
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec S Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh S
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber S There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln S
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) S "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history S
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) S There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks S
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) S My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley S
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi S Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley S
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) S Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler S
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( S Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder S
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton S Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) S
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) S The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S
