On Life
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+<p>
+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the
+right thing at the right moment to push us forward."
+<br> -- Jon Meacham</p>
+
+<p>
+"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the
+opportunity to do what is right."
+<br> -- Peter Marshall</p>
+
+<p>
+"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We
+spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If
+during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate
+with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
+<br> -- Gene Roddenberry</p>
+
+<p>
+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes...
+ but because he hits all the right emotions."
+<br>-- Will I Am</p>
+
<p>
"Taste your words before you spit them out."
<br>-- Andy Card</p>
sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
<br>-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+<p>
+"If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed
+on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some
+other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science
+were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure
+it all out again."
+<br>-- Penn Jillette
+
+<p>
+"A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees light at the end of the
+tunnel. A realist sees a train coming. The train's engineer sees three
+idiots standing on the track..."
+<br>-- Unknown
+
<p>
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
<br>-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence."
<br>-- Will Henry
+<p>
+"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."
+<br>-- William Shakespeare
+
<p>
"Kids are more nimble than wise..."
<br>-- Nancy Gibbs, in a Time opinion piece
is traded for a worthy price."
<br>-- Orson Scott Card, a realization by an older Columbus in Pastwatch</p>
+<p>
+"Enduring pain to do something good for someone you care about, isn't that
+what life is?"
+<br>-- Dr Eric Foreman, a character on the TV series House
+
<p>
"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
<br>-- Alfred Hitchcock</p>
sacred and virtue safe."
<br>-- John Walter Wayland</p>
+<p>
+"A lady is never unintentionally rude."
+<br>-- Mrs Walter Russell Winfree
+
<p>
"If ever a World Government should come into existence, it had better be a
government designed to be run by crooks rather than a government designed to
<br>-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
</p>
+<p>
+“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of
+a witness.”
+<br>-- Margaret Miller
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
+<br>-- Margaret Mead
+
On Programming
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<p>
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing."
-<br>-- Perlis</p>
+<br>-- Alan Perlis</p>
<p>
"We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust
"I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought,
'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"
<br>--Eric Schwartz</p>
+