The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites. ' And they learned.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.