Yoshitaro Sakai Quotes

#1. Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Zoltan Kodaly

#2. I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Peter Hargreaves

#3. Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

Erik Naggum

#4. There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.

Philip Caveney

#5. I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Sheryl Lee

#6. Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It's a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there's nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen.

Emma Scott