"Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]"

-- Alexandre Dumas

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“I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.”

Source : John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press
“I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...”
“If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.”
“Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls”
“Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.”
“Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.”
“Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.”

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