"The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it."

“Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.”

“There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.”

“The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

“I just didn't like going to school.”

Source : Interview with Fred Topel, www.cinemablend.com. August 14, 2006.

“As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them.”

Source : John Dickinson (1801). “The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, p.90

“Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.”

“The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.”

“(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.”