Quotes
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Remark of Dr. Baldwin's, concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
My grandmother used to say
before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses
make sure you're not on about the muck on your own
her glasses were filthy
So Beck was the hacker and Oda was the backer. The oldest and most troublesome relationship in the technological world.
Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Don't you know that nothin' gives a man greater remorse than havin' his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?
Take my advice, don't carry bags,
For bags are just as bad as swags;
They're never made to measure.
To see the world, your simple trick
Is but to take a walking-stick—
Assume an air of pleasure,
And tell the people near and far
You stroll about because you are
A Gentleman of Leisure.
Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.
Bill, of course, treated this conduct with silent contempt. It was his rule through life, he said, never to fight people with beaks.
Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can’t let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of “negative growth.”
The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile... It isn’t who you are.
