Everything – Page 272 – A book of aphorisms
Aug 142013
 

Programming is nothing more than describing exactly what you want.

Aug 132013
 

The cliché is not the hackneyed phrase, but the hackneyed train of thought of which it is the natural product.

Aug 122013
 

Many people kill themselves because they are tired of repeating themselves.

Aug 092013
 

The revolutionary treats the oppressed as the defense lawyer treats the client: under no circumstances are they to speak for themselves.

Aug 082013
 

One is asked to be reasonable and expected to be moderate.

Aug 072013
 

Humanity for the first time is burdened with a vast proletariat of literate, ambitious, and demanding people who can’t really do anything.

Aug 062013
 

Certain qualities — skepticism, iconoclasm, willpower — are fixed in quantity, and must be apportioned wisely.

Aug 052013
 

All people at all times have annals; but only some at a few times have history.

Aug 022013
 

Certain ideas are so corrosive that they eat through even themselves.