"From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code."

“There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.”

“The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing.”

“There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.”

“Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.”

“One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.”

“Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.”

Source : Damian Conway (2005). “Perl Best Practices”, p.153, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

“Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”

Source : William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.83, Penguin

“We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.”