Bjarne Stroustrup Famous Quotes
"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 Quotations
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Henry Louis Mencken
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Walter Lippmann
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Henry Louis Mencken
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Astor
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on.
Martha Mitchell
"We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
Lewis Thomas
"Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
Thamas De Quincey
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin