Splendido Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The church is the only authorized institution for the proclamation of the gospel — Stanley Mehta

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water." — Saint Augustine

Time seems to overlap, like the shadows of leave pressing down on other leave, layer upon layer. — Tan Twan Eng

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation - a gnawing familiarity - that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story. — Kate Bernheimer

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman. — Luigi Pirandello

Finally, say that she was beautiful. That is all that can be well said. That she was beautiful, through to her bones, despite any flaw or fault. — Patrick Rothfuss