Stephen Riggs Quotes

#1. When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, or a complex binary application protocol, it is generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes.

Eric S. Raymond

#2. Every one is allowed to have a false start

Sophie Kinsella

#3. In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Albert Camus

#5. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

Stephen Return Riggs

#6. The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.

Anthony Buckeridge

#7. The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Illinois Jacquet

#8. There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

Ada Leverson

#9. [T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.

Pascal Boyer

#10. If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women ...

Virginia Woolf

#11. Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

Nicholas Kristof

#12. There is no story unless you've written it.

Hunter S. Thompson