“Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.” SoulAgeGraceYouthComfortAdversityProsperityDelightOld AgeRefugeOrnamentsProvocation Author:Saint Augustine
“Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.” GivingTryingSidesSeeingRoseComplainingThanksRejoiceThornsRose Bush Author:Alphonse Karr
“It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.” MeanDoeJusticePoorIdealsCharityDeservingUndeserving Book:Heretics Source: Heretics
“The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.” FirstsTwoUsedThreeStupidComputerMajorsProgramThirdsDigitalAttributesAccurateDisguise Author:P. J. Plauger
“Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.” IfsExpressionAuthorityConscienceClaimsPopeRequirementsBinding Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.” FactsPainProcessAcceptingWillingRevelations Author:Stanley Crouch
“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.” PeopleLastsHeardDoctorsCancerClimbingSecondsAuntElbowsEverestMount EverestClimbing Mount EverestGreat Aunt Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.” ChallengesMetsMessComputing Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.” WayIdeasGood IdeasBad Ideas Author:Jack Kemp
