If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. (Harold Abelson)
It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open. (Lord Thomas Dewar)
Whatever you are, be a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. (Steven Patrick Callahan)
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. (Christopher Columbus)
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. (Senator Patrick Leahy)
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. (Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill)
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. (Samuel Johnson)
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. (G. K. Chesterton)
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being. (Lao Tzu)
Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. (John Kord Lagemann)
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. (John Erksine)
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. (Leo C. Rosten)
Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it. (Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.)
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. (George Bernard Shaw)
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. (Amelia Burr)
'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations' (Lewis Carroll)
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (William H. Walton)