"Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy."

“If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”

“[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity”

“Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2016). “The Cloven Foot”, p.43, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.”

Source : NANOG mailing list, 2002.

“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.”

Source : "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.

“The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.”

“In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.”