Washington

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Dancing is silent poetry. (Simonides)

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. (J. Paul Getty)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

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)

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