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"The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions."
-- Maurice Chapelain
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
-- Maurice Wilkes
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."
-- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
-- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
Someone will try to honk your nose today.
"And I'm not all that decent and honorable. I'm merely well-bred, which I hope is a tolerable substitute."
-- Anne Rice (Ramses the Damned)
"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel."
"Love makes you do the wacky"
-- Willow
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent it.
-- Socrates
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
-- William Blake
Computer Science without FORTRAN and COBOL is like birthday cake without ketchup and mustard.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
-- William Shakespeare
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
I must invent my own philosophical systems, or else be enslaved by other men's.
-- William Blake
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-- Oscar Wilde
Write a wise saying, and your name will live forever.
-- Anonymous
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
-- Tom Stoppard
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Homer Simpson
The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
-- Will Durant
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
-- Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
-- Oscar Wilde
"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled."
-- William Blake
Ah, twitter, where people will be deeply outraged for one to six hours, before forgetting forever.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
True friends stab you in the front.
-- Oscar Wilde
"People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases."
-- Mark Twain
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen
What is wanted is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
-- Dorothy Parker
In a nonsmoking area:
"If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."
"To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad."
-- Tori Amos
Things will get better, despite our efforts to improve them.
-- Will Rogers
"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
-- William Shakespeare
Ah! don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
-- Oscar Wilde