Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Ricky Gervais

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'

Diane von Furstenberg

Generosity is the best investment.

Carolina Herrera

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Brian Kernighan

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

Alan King

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Charlotte Bronte

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles Dickens

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Charles Spurgeon

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Carol P. Christ

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

Carlos Mencia

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

Carlos Castaneda

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

C. S. Lewis

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

C. S. Lewis

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Agnes Martin

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Aaron Sorkin

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.