The night is dark, and I am far from home.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has a soul, but all he has is a body.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.