No deed is so awful as to prevent a man from thinking well of himself even as he commits it.

You can't sell out when no one will return your calls.

The businessman wants peace, which is good for his business; and the intellectual wants war, which is good for his.

Until it has the appearance of liberty the prison is not complete.

The contents of the dustbin
of history are recycled endlessly.

Local maxima are the root of all mediocrity.

Clear, brief, precise -- choose two.

To allege hypocrisy is ad hominem in its most common form.

"Failure is a kind of luck, as long as it doesn't kill you." --Stephen Vizinczey

To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs; to make a bigger one you have to break a few more; and to make a magnificent, imperishable, world-historical omelet, millions of broken eggs are required.

Self-hatred would be all right if it weren't always for the wrong reasons.

To have done is a universal aim; to do is less popular.

Nothing more than eight feet tall is funny.

Some lies help you succeed, and some truths help you fail.

The difficulty with which success imagines failure makes for hard-heartedness, and the ease with which failure imagines success makes for envy.

Genuine obscurity measures the distance from author to reader; the rest is obfuscation.

As computers become more skilled at imitating human beings, so must we.

Three's a crowd -- in love, in war, in software development.

Hidden depths are only unrecorded thoughts, and those have ceased to exist.