"Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Positivity Quotes #Nine Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"”
“In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.”
“We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.”
“The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.”

Source : "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.
“The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.”
“All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.”
“Any profession of faithâ€¦entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.”
“I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.”

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