Splitters And Lumpers Quotes

#1. I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

Nawal El Saadawi

#2. I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Linus Torvalds

#3. Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

#4. Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

Joel Shepherd

#6. I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

Glen Cook

#7. Everyone likes to say they're tolerant.

Caleb Crain

#8. Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Jerome Lawrence

#9. Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

John Daly

#10. She is nothing to me, compared with you.

Jane Austen

#11. Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past ... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

Roger Revelle

#12. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

Anthony Burgess

#13. It's the 'aloha spirit'."
"And you already got leid."
...
"He means the flowers," Ellie said with a snort.

Ophelia London

#14. Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee