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• Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
  (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous....
• Brave thirst of fame his bosom warms. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
  -- Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde...
• Technique?" said the programmer turning from his terminal, "What I follow is Tao -- beyond all technique!
  When I first began to program I would see before me the whole problem in one mass....
• No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
  -- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), Night, Line 271...
• The individual who prosecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
  -- Voltaire,_Philosophical Dictionary_, 1764...
• Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
  -- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), The Author, Line 233...
• He who sits on the pinnacle of power is still sitting on his own backside
• Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. -- Proverbs, 26:5