"I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them."

“Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.”

“I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.”

“I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.”

Source : "Rod Taylor, Star of 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2015.

“Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.”

Source : FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2016

“We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.”

“I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.”

“Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.”

“It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.”

Source : Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.80, Allison & Busby