Quotes - September 3, 2012

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
-- Konrad Lorenz

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.
-- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld