Omon Quotes

#1. I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

Vladimir Putin

#2. We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. I hate doctors! They'll do anything ... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

Eugene O'Neill

#4. It is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Richard Dawkins

#5. The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry

#6. This parched evening seasons the night with remembrances of rain.

Samuel R. Delany

#7. Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles ... they all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

Joel Spolsky

#8. Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

Andrew Mason

#9. If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated - people take note.

Bryant McGill

#10. You can't drink from the cup while you're filling it up.

Laura Hajek

#11. One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired!

Mark P. Shea

#12. The fearful are the failing.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#13. The face is the soul of the body.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

Adam Levine