The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...

The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.

It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.