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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

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

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

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

"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.)

"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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
-- Philip K Dick

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
-- Philip K. Dick

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett ("Playboy", 1971)

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-- Jules de Gaultier