"To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place."

“It's harder to read code than to write it.”

Source : Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress

“Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.”

“I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.”

“Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

“Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.”

Source : Hilari Bell (2008). “Forging the Sword”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

“Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.”

“Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.”

“The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.”