"The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality."

-- Philip Wylie

#Trying Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Quality Quotes

“It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism”
“If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.”

Source : "The Paradigms of Programming", 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455 - 460,
“She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?”
“It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.”
“Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.”
“I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.”
“I hate mornings. They start so early.”
“I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God I hope it lands in Hartford, Connecticut.”

Source : "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.

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