S.A. David Quotes

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.

I feel like Elvis. Only alive.

I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens.

I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

Conquer or be conquered.

God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

I don't care what you call it. I believe in the quote, unquote, Holy Holocaust.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.