Scrisoarea Lui Quotes & Sayings

Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
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The Great Mendacitor, for example, for nine years in charge of the Saturn meliorization project, did absolutely nothing on that planet, sending out piles of fake progress reports, invoices, requisition forms, and either bribed his supervisors or kept them in a state of electronic shock. — Stanislaw Lem

He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever. — Barry Lyga

I'll get to the oval three hours beforehand and warm up for about 45 minutes off the ice. Then I'll stretch and get on the ice for 20 minutes. I'll cool down, then relax, close my eyes and think about what I need to do. — Brittany Bowe

That were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. — Anonymous

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them? — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. — Emile Zola

Education is neither eastern nor western. — Malala Yousafzai

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss. — William Carlos Williams

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself. — James Stewart

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect. — James Wyatt

It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times. — B. Chancellor Burgweger

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward. — David Livingstone

People like me don't work towards perfection in an imperfect world. We celebrate imperfection — Shelley Coriell