Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
A church that likes power likes prayer.
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.