"I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats."

-- John Dyer

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Sailing Quotes

“I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.”
“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
“The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.”
“I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.”

Source : "Ben Richards Exclusive Interview OUTCASTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.
“For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.”
“Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press
“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.19, Random House
“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.”

Source : Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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