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Edsger W. Dijkstra
Program testing can be used
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
104
Gertrude Stein
Americans are very friendly and
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
97
Oprah Winfrey
Do the one thing you
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
36
Cesare Pavese
If it were possible to
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
90
Gertrude Stein
There is no there there.
There is no there there.
100
Cesare Pavese
Literature is a defense against
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
108
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To do just the opposite
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
50
Cesare Pavese
A man is never completely
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be.
125
George Santayana
By nature's kindly disposition most
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
56
Cesare Pavese
Reality is a prison, where
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
95
Arsenio Hall
I don't possess a lot
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
22
Cesare Pavese
One does not kill oneself
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
108
Cesare Pavese
At great periods you have
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
92
George Santayana
Perhaps the only true dignity
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
60
Cesare Pavese
All sins have their origin
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
94
Dorothy L. Sayers
The English language has a
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
52
George Santayana
Chaos is a name for
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
57
Cesare Pavese
Life is pain and the
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
117
Vikrant Parsai
People see what you are
People see what you are before they hear what you are.
101
Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
26
George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
59
Vikrant Parsai
The people who ask questions
The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.
95
Vikrant Parsai
The future is simply a
The future is simply a servant to those who decide to master it.
95
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Perhaps in time the so-called
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
61