"Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way."

“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.”

“Politics is cyclical.”

“Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

“The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.”

“Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.”

“Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.”

“My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.”