Virtutis Regia Quotes

#1. The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. A strategic victory does not validate all the victor's operational and tactical methods or make them universally applicable.

Kalev I. Sepp

#3. When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

Dennis Miller

#4. With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

Theophile Gautier

#5. Like many people who lasted any length of time in the rescue professions, she'd worn out the 'if' factor pretty quickly. You were where you were. You went where you went. You did what you could. Mostly, people were better off after you showed up than before.

Nevada Barr

#6. What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

Syama Prasad Mukherjee

#7. Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

John Caudwell

#8. Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

Rachael Leigh Cook