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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
— Samuel Johnson
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject oursevles, or we know where we can find information upon it.
— Samuel Johnson
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Sam Levenson
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
— Mark Twain
Never trust someone who can't say sorry to a dog.
— James Lileks
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
— Hugh Laurie
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
— Albert Einstein
The beginning and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
— John Galsworthy
BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
— Ambrose Bierce
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
— Shakespeare
Life would be dull without mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
— Confucius
What is past is prologue.
— Shakespeare
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
— Gene Fowler
Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
— Winston Churchill
You have what you have not lost;
you have not lost horns;
ergo, you have horns.
— Anon.
I have known happiness, for I have done good work.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I write books to find out about things.
— Rebecca West
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
— Jim Horning
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanations.
— Anon.
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
— Peter DeVries
There's no such thing as fun for the whole family.
— Jerry Seinfeld
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
— Thomas Mann
It comes as a shock when the truth dawns that every young person is just an older person waiting to happen.
— Ben Elton
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize; usage evolves itself little disturbed by their likes and dislikes. And yet the temptation to show how better use might have been made of the material to hand is sometimes irresistible.
— H.W. Fowler
Advertising can be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
— Stephen Butler Leacock
All the dreams I have in which we are successful are dreams in which we succeed in reducing the Yankees to a more appropriate stature in life
— Bill James
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
A language is never in a state of fixation, but is always changing; we are not looking at a lantern-slide but at a moving picture.
— Andrew Lloyd James, linguist
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
Don't get too attached to your deathless prose, because the editor will change it. A good editor will improve your writing, but any editor will change it. In this respect editors are the same as dogs; when they see something new, they simply must mark it with their own scent.
— Mike Gunderloy
To know another language is to have a second soul.
— Charlemagne
My resolve at the age of 61 is to have more fun. Basketball and steam rooms are part of that plan. I am guilty of obsessive work habits, hunkered over a laptop, pushing, pushing, pushing, when a sensible man would know that an hour's break, shooting baskets, walking, steaming, would be good for him and good for the work. Why does one not learn this simple truth, even at the age of 61?
— Garrison Keillor
It's not about the software
It's not about the hardware
It's not about the network
It's not about the people
It is about what you do with them...
— Anon
If you're falling off a mountain, you may as well try to fly.
— Delenn (Babylon 5)
Sometimes it eats 90% CPU and I kill task once a day but other than that it works fine for me.
— Chaz Carroll (re: trillium)
"I don't want to hate but that's all you've left me with,
A bitter aftertaste and a fantasy of how we all could live,
No regrets, they don't work,
No regrets now, they only hurt,
Sing me a love song,
Drop me a line,
Suppose it's just a point of view,
\But they tell me I'm doing fine,
If I could just stop hating you,
I'd feel sorry for us instead"
— "No Regrets" - Robbie Williams
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