Famous Quotes

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"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)" - Socrates

"What you will do matters. All you need is to do it." - Judy Grahn

"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled." - Henry David Thoreau

"As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." - Maurice Wilkes

"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind." - John Beecher

"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." - Edmund Burke

"The artist needs no religion beyond his work." - Elbert Hubbard

"And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)" - Walt Whitman

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help." - Jean Kerr