Quotes

This is a page where I post some interesting quotes I find now and then.

For all words of pen and tongue the saddest are these ‘it might have been…’

-John Greenleaf Whittier

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

-Morgan Freeman, Shawshank Redemption

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Good artists copy, great artists steal

- Pablo Picasso

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

DRM ‘manages access’ in the same way that jail ‘manages freedom.’

- Anonymous

Nothing in this wicked world is permanent, not even our troubles

- Sir Charles Chaplin

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

- General George Patton

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

- Albert Einstein

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

- Thomas Alva Edison

An Eye for Eye will make the world blind.

- Mahatma Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

- Mahatma Gandhi