"I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked."

“There is no special way a photograph should look.”

“Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.”

“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.”

Source : Flavius Josephus (1830). “The Works of Flavius Josephus...: With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Etc. and Explanatory Notes and Observations”, p.235

“I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.”

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“I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.”

“The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.”

“One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.”