"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."

“To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”

“Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.”

“During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'”

Source : "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

“I think it's very important to support your friends and to stay current with what's happening.”

“I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.”

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.”