Andre Dubus

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It’s the transition that’s troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. (Leon Trotsky)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)