"What is the city but the people?"

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

Source : "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.

“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”

“And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.”

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

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”

Source : "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

“It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.”

“Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.”

“The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.”

“When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.21