Abraham Lincoln Parable Quotes & Sayings

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items.
From The Devil's DP Dictionary — Stan Kelly-Bootle

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers. — Walter Mosley

I prayed for her to leave so I could breath again.
I prayed for her to buy a book so I would have to talk to her. — Maggie Stiefvater

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of the day. — Homer

How did you find me? The heartstone? he says.
I look into his eyes. His silver moonlight eyes. The still calmwater heart of him.
I don't need no stone to find you. I'd find you anywhere, I says. — Moira Young

What you can do is ask: 'What is the value to the customer? What are they willing to pay for?' Then, deliver great products and services. — Greg Brenneman

There has to be a reform within the government that is tangible, that we can actually measure and that we have confidence is going to provide some of the differences that I think are essential to our troops to be able to carry out their mission and to the longer- term interests of our country. — Rahm Emanuel

Hactar had been shocked by the whole idea. He tried to explain that he had been thinking about this Ultimate Weapon business, and had worked out that there was no conceivable consequence of not setting the bomb off that was worse than the known consequence of setting it off, and he had therefore taken the liberty of introducing a small flaw into the design of the bomb, and he hoped that everyone involved would, on sober reflection, feel that — Douglas Adams