"Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me."

“The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.”

“Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random”

Source : Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.25, Addison-Wesley Professional

“Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”

“The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.”

“It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.”

“[Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very religious and not highly educated.”

“If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.”

“I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be is unclear. But they have built up a strong military, and they have begun to build the institutions of an autonomous life in Northern Syria. Turkey's enmity towards the Kurds and their desire to make sure there is no independent Kurdish state or even really autonomous enclave is going to push the Kurds into Bashar Assad's hands over time.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org