Poems List

Don’t judge me just because you probably did the same thing.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Don’t care about what people think about you. They don’t put food on your table or pay your bills.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Always keep in mind of those who show you encouragement when you are down.

The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

A tree that allows birds to nest in it should never complain about its shred leaves.

A successful marriage depends upon two things: to find the right person and to be the right person.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

A marriage is the official licence to exploit the labour of wedded husband.

I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade.

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

A man starts growing old when his wishes turn into regrets.

A good marriage is a game in which both players win.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

To write an original thought, one first must scan beyound the horizon of the universe. And since the universe goes beyound the outer limits, original thoughts are rare. There is nothing new under the sun.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

On doing another talk show It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left

The argument against recursive procedures was always an efficiency argument: non-re-entrant code could be executed so much more efficiently. But with the advent of multiprogramming another need for felxible storage allocation has emerged. And if there are still machines in which the use of recursive routines is punished by too heavy a penalty, then I would venture the opinion that the structure of such a machine should now be called somewhat old-fashioned.

The question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.