Alan Quotes

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

Love your rage, not your cage.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?