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A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
-- Henry Spencer
"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
-- Henry Spencer
Writing novice-friendly documentation is a lot of work. We'd like to do it someday. Holding of breath is not advised.
-- Henry Spencer
Rhetorical subtlety doesn't work on people with the perceptive powers of an eggplant.
-- Spencer Sun
Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Like most poets, preacher, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusions at a spark of evidence."
-- Henry Seidel Canby (on Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
-- Henry Ford
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver (on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notes)
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
-- Henry Kissinger
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau