Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996 42nd president of the United States (1946 - )

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Don Herold

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes" US cartoonist (1958 - )

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." 

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." 

Robert Orben

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." 

C. A. R. Hoare

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."


 

H. Jackson Brown

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.



 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. 

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. 

Phyllis Bottome

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

Bernard Meltzer

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Flower A. Newhouse

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Sir Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.