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• The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled
  each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden. Anon....
• Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
  -- Vladimir Nabokov, quoted in "Time", 1981...
• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
  -- Henry Ward Beeche...
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
  George S. Patton, US General...
• A woman went into a hospital one day to give birth.
  Afterwards, the doctor came to her and said, "I have some....
• When everything is new, can anything be a surprise? -- Cho-Je, Planet of the Spide
• We can enjoy knowing that we were good to life, rather than life was good to us.
  -- Rabbi Joseph Edelhei...
• As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
  Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs....