"FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer."

-- Alan Perlis

#Weed Quotes #Flower Quotes #Computer Quotes

“Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.”

Source : Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Sri Aurobindo (1992). “Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga”, p.182, Lotus Press
“I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it.”
“Life is too precious to be left to chance”

Source : Walter Moers (2001). “The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear”, Vintage Uk
“The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media
“Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.”
“I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell other people what they should do.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.”
“Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self”

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