"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of somethingelse anyway." ― Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane
Salvatore Ziemann
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ― Wernher von Braun
Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build:They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing,and testing them hard. Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more statesthan computers do. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. ― Marcus Aurelius, "The Meditations", Book VIII
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands. ― H. L. Mencken, "Sententiae," The Vintage Mencken, 1955.
If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.
