All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
— Boris Pasternak
The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.
— David Ignatius
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I wasn't disturbing the peace, I was disturbing the war — Ammon Hennacy
All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection. — Butler Lampson
We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection. — Butler Lampson
In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum. — Butler Lampson
