"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."

“There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.”

“The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.”

“Software engineering economics.”

Source : Mingshu Li, Barry Boehm, Leon J. Osterweil (2005). “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers”, p.66, Springer Science & Business Media

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

Source : "Yo-Yo Boing!". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1998.

“Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.”

“Technology is a resource liberating force!”

“The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.”

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

“I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.