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- The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
- Larry Wall
- This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
- One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), Interview with a Vampire
- Am I my brother's keeper?
- Bible, Genesis iv. 9.
- My punishment is greater than I can bear
- Bible, Genesis iv. 13.
- He kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 10.
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