What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -John Adams.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

How does your patient, doctor? Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!

Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT.

Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.

On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T. On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.

We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."