Butler Lampson Quotes

#1. When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Rumi

#2. We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

Butler Lampson

#3. I'm just really a lazy homebody.

Amy Brenneman

#4. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that, but Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat and still a leader. He brought strong people around him, and he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country.

Jim Webb

#5. You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.

Roald Dahl

#6. All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Butler Lampson

#7. In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

Butler Lampson

#8. I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of his life not being seen, not being heard, that he's forgotten how to realize anything he says does hold weight and is important.

Kelley York

#9. Never were finer snares for womens' honesties
Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd
To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

Thomas Middleton

#10. A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

Francine Prose