Preussen Munster Quotes

#1. Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . .

E. M. Forster

#2. Moreover, without measurements, it is virtually impossible to identify the cause of performance problems and track the effect of improvements.

Anonymous

#3. A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Pliny The Elder

#4. A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Nicolas Chamfort

#5. Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

Jonathan Gottschall

#6. Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

William Vickrey

#7. You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

Maya Angelou

#8. In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

Ann Romines

#9. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman