Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
- George Bernard Shaw

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure..
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result
- Oscar Wilde

We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer
when you want to turn your brain on.
- Steve Jobs

When the world leaves a human with no choice of life,… His freedom of choice will choose his way of death. ”
- Human Right Meeting, USA 2004

My way of joking is to tell the truth.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
- Muhammad Ali

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
- Robin Williams

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
- Charles Spurgeon

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you’re missing two fingers.
- Tom Lehrer

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
- Michael Sinz

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
- Bill Bulko

When I was a teenager, Mom said I’d go blind if I didn’t quit doing *that*. Maybe she was right — since the invention of internet porn, computer monitors keep getting bigger and bigger!
- Bill Ervin

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov

At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand.

It is not a bug it is a feature.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that
humans can understand.
- Martin Fowler