The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. I'll sleep when I'm dead. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. We have art to save ourselves from the truth. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. The mistakes are all waiting to be made. The man who says I told you so is making an excuse for not expressing his position clearly in the first place. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. No one can earn a million dollars honestly. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. The quality of the moment is more important than the number of our days. 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. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. A witty saying proves nothing. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Black holes are where God divided by zero. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5.Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. You can widen your life by yourself, but to deepen it you need a friend. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. A clever man commits no minor blunders. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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