One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa, " he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.