Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

George Colman

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

George Colman

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Phaedrus

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Beverley Mitchell

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.