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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-- Charles Baudelaire

On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
-- Charles Brower

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
-- Charles Bukowski

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles De Gaulle

"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."
-- Charles Bukowski

"That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers."
-- Charles Chincholles

'Everything that can be invented has been invented.'
-- Charles H. Duell (Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.)

It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant examples.
-- Charles Dickens

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.

-- Charles Schultz

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
-- Charles Darwin

javalin: Unwieldy spear with poor flight characteristics and excessive weight. Due to its poor ballistics, it is usually used to stab a programming project through the heart until dead.
-- Charles Shannon Hendrix