Expreso Palmira Quotes & Sayings

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work. — Robert Fano

One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life. — Oscar Wilde

Tolerance has come to mean that no one is right and no one is wrong and, indeed, the very act of stating that someone else's views are immoral or incorrect is now taken to be intolerant (of course, from this same point of view, it is all right to be intolerant of those who hold to objectively true moral or religious positions). Once the existence of knowable truth in religion and ethics is denied, authority (the right to be believed and obeyed) gives way to power (the ability to force compliance), reason gives way to rhetoric, the speech writer is replaced by the makeup man, and spirited but civil debate in the culture wars is replaced by politically correct special-interest groups who have nothing left but political coercion to enforce their views on others. — J.P. Moreland

What do any of us really know about love? — Raymond Carver

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential. — Joe Rogan

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut

A man's got to know his limitations."
Inspector Harry Callahan. — David Feeney

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson

Politics/Government: "We must not confuse cause with effect. God will heal; that's the effect. But the cause, the reason He will heal, is our repentance. Just electing Christians to office won't change the nation and heal its wounds. Instead, we'll repent and God will then allow godly men and women to be elected to office and He will use them in the healing process. Some well-meaning Christians want to heal the nation by organizing the 'Christian vote' and voting our problems away. — John Price

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still. — Aldous Huxley

The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris. — Anatole France

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously. — Mark Morris

Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art? — Virginia Woolf

The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality. — George Benson