Aldus Manutius Quotes

#1. That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies.

Lynne Truss

#2. Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Jules Shear

#3. About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

Bill Gates

#4. Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

#5. In any moment, there were so many chances for paths to cross and people to clash, come together, or do any number of things in between. It was amazing we could live at all, knowing all that could occur purely by chance. But what was the alternative?

Sarah Dessen

#6. Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

Aldus Manutius

#7. It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

Aldus Manutius

#8. It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Aldus Manutius

#9. Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Walter Kirn

#10. I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

Mary Roach