It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Luck is the residue of design. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. Logic is in the eye of the logician.A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. The quality of the moment is more important than the number of our days. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Logic is in the eye of the logician.The best proof of love is trust. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Who so loves believes the impossible. No one can earn a million dollars honestly. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven! I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you. Not because they are nice, but because you are. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. I have not failed I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. Hatch a dream and then believe it. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a ... brain operation. I would have made a good Pope. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man. Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. What do you take me for, an idiot? In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. I would have made a good Pope. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a shp, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.