Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it. (John F. Kennedywhen asked what is his favorite song)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (Edsgar Dijkstra)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)