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Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

Laughter is always good for your soul!

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as ... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian ...

The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.

I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we ...

Suburbia: a place where they cut down trees and name streets in their memory.

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," ...

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who ...

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain ...

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

Why don't we all just get really baked on weed?

Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even ...

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from ...

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, ...

My fans are sexy. Yes they are. They can't help themselves. It is just how they do.

Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,

A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a ...

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

I've been passing through for the longest time.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

The Bible is the voice of God, calling out to everyone.

We stared into the eyes of death and death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel invincible. It didnt

I don't care what the polls say.

How'd you sleep?""Like I was in paradise.""I have no problems with you calling my body paradise. Do me a favor and spread the word. Chicks ...

When we first talked about the touch-screen, the guys came back and said, 'There's nothing like that in the automotive supply chain,'" Musk said. "I ...

Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Don't deny yourself food, but pay attention to what your body needs when your mind craves a block of cheese because you haven't had adult ...

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happinessgood faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

As the suns rise, the goat chews. A

Dreams really do come true if you point yourself in their direction

Christian submitted to the roll of his eyes, the churn of his stomach, the break in his knees. He willingly fell out of consciousness, surrendering ...

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job ... He just has been unable to get ...

The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ...

Good news arrives with TV cameras and big, brightly painted vans. Bad news arrives quietly, in dark sedans with black windows.

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the ...

Whatever worth doing at all is worth doing well.

The "styles" are a lie.

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking ...

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired.

After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached ...

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

My new tattoo is Jesus being carried by three cherubs. Obviously the cherubs are my boys. At some point they are going to need to ...

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

It felt like he could open up my head and see inside.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is ...

I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in ...

When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by ...

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not ...

Horace smiled. Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring.

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to ...

Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on ...

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Our love of beauty is merely a trick produced by the way we look, and the broader the vision grows the clearer the wrinkles are ...

Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with ...

Great things sometimes have small beginnings.

Children are blessings not burdens in our families, our society, and in our world.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's ...

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the ...

Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party ... If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't ...

[ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.

You're the salt in my wound, but you are also the air in my lungs.you make it all hurt so bad, but you still keep ...

Just when you think you don't have it in you to bloom anymore, you do.

All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.

I have no nationality, no country.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, ...

Small changes. Big differences

Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and ...

What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no other ...

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her ...

You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

[ ... ]Since then it's been passed from mother to daughter, along with The Face.""The Face?" Lucas asked."That Launched a Thousand Ships," Daphne said, repeating ...

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

How could she not be with someone who shared such a major chunk of her life?

One of the mugs, robin saw, read keep clam and proofread

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

The hardest thing on earth is to know the ways of men and still manage to be in good spirits.

At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

Everything can be improved.