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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930))

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

I begin by taking.I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. (Frederick (II) the Great)

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. (Frank Zappa)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. (Leon Trotsky)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)