All of our Quotes

“Climate change” is just a mental tattoo — a phrase we invoke with an air of scientific sophistication to give some sense of knowledgeability about the unknowable.
—Peter Wood / The Spectator World, 15-Dec-2021 climate weather

Those cheering the suppression of people with whom they disagree might remember the pendulum always swings. Be careful what you wish for. It’s often what you also deserve.
—James Wood / Actor freedom government

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat'.
—Stephen Wright sailing

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats education

Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
—Yo Yo life philosophy

I squint at the sun because it's bright. I squint at some people because they're not.
—Jedi Master Yoda life philosophy

If they stand behind you give them protection. If they stand beside you give them respect. If they stand against you show them no mercy.
—Jedi Master Yoda freedom life

Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher failure is.
—Jedi Master Yoda life philosophy

Wisdom has been chasing you, but you have always been faster.
—Jedi Master Yoda life philosophy

Do or do not, there is no try(ing).
—Jedi Master Yoda life philosophy

Below the surface of the machine, the program moves. Without effort, it expands and contracts. In great harmony, electrons scatter and regroup. The forms on the monitor are but ripples on the water. The essence stays invisibly below.
—Master Yuan Ma / The Book of Programming life programming

Tzu-li and Tzu-ssu were boasting about the size of their latest programs. ‘Two-hundred thousand lines,’ said Tzu-li, ‘not counting comments!’ Tzu-ssu responded, ‘Pssh, mine is almost a million lines already.’ Master Yuan-Ma said, ‘My best program has five hundred lines.’ Hearing this, Tzu-li and Tzu-ssu were enlightened.
—Master Yuan Ma / The Book of Programming life programming

A beginning programmer writes her programs like an ant builds her hill, one piece at a time, without thought for the bigger structure. Her programs will be like loose sand. They may stand for a while, but growing too big they fall apart.
Realizing this problem, the programmer will start to spend a lot of time thinking about structure. Her programs will be rigidly structured, like rock sculptures. They are solid, but when they must change, violence must be done to them.
The master programmer knows when to apply structure and when to leave things in their simple form. Her programs are like clay, solid yet malleable.
—Master Yuan Ma / The Book of Programming life programming

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.
—Frank Zappa life

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
—Frank Zappa life

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
—Frank Zappa freedom government

We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
—Emile Zola friendship philosophy

Terrible things don't happen because most people are evil... They happen because a few are evil, and most are simply cowards. That's why they act like nothing is happening. Even if they KNOW it's wrong, they still won't say anything. History now makes perfect sense.
—Rapper Zuby government history

When we were kids we were punished for telling lies, now we are punished for telling the truth.
—Rapper Zuby life