Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.

Charles Spurgeon

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

Alan Perlis

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

David Mitchell

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

Dave Barry

Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.

Carl Sagan

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

Bill Johnson

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

Edward Gibbon

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

David Schwimmer

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

Edward Gibbon

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Dean Ornish

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

B. C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Alexander Hamilton

But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.

Abraham Maslow

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

Jane Yolen

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

C. S. Lewis

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

Claude C. Hopkins

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

E. L. Konigsburg

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Greg Evans

Part of perseverance is knowing what you want. Indecision is as useful as road signs in Spain written in Dutch.

Hal Joseph

The legislative process keeps chugging and nothing happens. It is this indecision that is so difficult.

Napoleon Hill

The worst of all human ailments: indecision.

Michael Gough

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

James Richardson

Patience is decisive indecision.

L. Ron Hubbard

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.