Wulpen Quotes & Sayings

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology. — Gerald M. Weinberg

The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear. — Justin Cronin

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies. — George Will

At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area. — Gore Vidal

As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore: -

Death has no terror; only a Death of shame! — Epictetus

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible. — Gwen Ifill

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ... — Mordecai Richler