Tag: know

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”

“The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.”

“My mother would never say anything I cooked for her was great. She was always a 'Yeah, but' person. When she tasted my food, I used to say to her 'Don't tell me too straight, lie to me!' She couldn't even understand why I was on television.”

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”

“We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.”

“Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.”

“It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.”

“The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.”

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.”

“One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.”

“Health and hygiene are a basic personal need for all.”

“A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”

“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.”

“If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'”

“Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“I went on a Hot Pocket diet where I ate two Hot Pockets every four hours. I only had the pepperoni pizza flavour. I didn't go anywhere near the cheeseburger macaroni.”

“I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.”