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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." -- Menciu
• An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the duration of his stay on this planet.
  Since neither the mouse nor the chip knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery....
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...
• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• An Hacker there was, one of the finest sort Who controlled the system
  graphics was his sport. A manly man, to be a wizard able...
• For Africa to me . . . is more than a glamorous fact.
  It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place....
• The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others.
  He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner....
• ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
  So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief....
• A novice of the temple once approached the Chief Priest with a question.
  "Master, does Emacs have the Buddha nature?" the novice asked....