Archive for March, 2008

Larry Wall on Technology

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

- Larry Wall

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Joan Rivers on Humor

Monday, March 31st, 2008

If God wanted us to bend over he’d put diamonds on the floor.

- Joan Rivers

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Edmund Burke on Imagination

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

- Edmund Burke

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Franklin D. Roosevelt on War

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Love

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Faith Baldwin on Time

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Faith Baldwin

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Thomas Paine on Government

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

- Thomas Paine

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David Merrick on Success

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

It’s not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

- David Merrick

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Pablo Picasso on Art

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

- Pablo Picasso

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