Abelson Windows Quotes & Sayings

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this - this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life. — Aron Ralston

Only you could go to Spokane and get bitten by the one vampire in the whole city

Adam to Mercy — Patricia Briggs

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. — Trevor McDonald

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. — Nikki Sixx

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson. — Tamora Pierce

I wake up every morning and have a pile of problems. — Sergey Galitsky

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. — Peter Thiel

ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK
LENT TO A FRIEND
I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this book which having endured the perils of my friend's bookcase, and the bookcases of my friend's friends, now returns to me in reasonably good condition.
I GIVE humble and hearty thanks that my friend did not see fit to give this book to his infant as a plaything, nor use it as an ash-tray for his burning cigar, nor as a teething-ring for his mastiff.
WHEN I lent this book I deemed it as lost: I was resigned to the bitterness of the long parting: I never thought to look upon its pages again.
BUT NOW that my book is come back to me, I rejoice and am exceeding glad! Bring hither the fatted morocco and let us rebind the volume and set it on the shelf of honour: for this my book was lent, and is returned again.
PRESENTLY, therefore, I may return some of the books that I myself have borrowed. — Christopher Morley

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution. — Andrew Zolli

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. — Linda Berdoll

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr., — Max Allan Collins

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems. — Julian Huxley

I loved fighting ... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.' — Joe Frazier

Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety. — Esther Perel

And her taste in men should be applauded until the cows came home and tap-danced on the front lawn.' (Taryn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon