Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Programming under Windows is like starting a gourmet restaurant using ingredients from McDonalds.
Antiques are things one generation buys, the next generation gets rid off, and the following generation buys at auction at amazing prices.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.
The glass is not half-empty, it's just twice as big as it needs to be.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Ideas are funny things - they don't work unless you do.
Hands are the heart's landscape.
With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Danger is next neighbour to security.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Any man who laughs at women's clothes has never paid the bill for them.
The complete is more than the sum of its pieces.
Any car will last a lifetime - if you are careless enough.
A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything!
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause.
Time keeps everything from happening all at once. Space keeps everything from happening all to you.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
There's no business like show business.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black.
Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.
Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
