quotes

Note: I do NOT agree with some of these! For example, a quote by Schlesinger below expresses the opposite of my personal opinion.

Note: I did not check and am not confident about the accuracy and provenance of these quotes.

"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it." -- Horace

"May your outages be few, and your logs filled with helpful data." -- [1]

"While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so." -- U.S. Supreme Court, BURWELL, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL. v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC., ET AL.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." -- C.S. Lewis

"If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you." -- Jonathan Haidt

"Happiness and contentment, equability of mind and meaningfulness of life - these can be experienced only by the individual and not by a State, which, on the one hand, is nothing but a convention agreed to by independent individuals, and on the other, continually threatens to paralyze and suppress the individual." -- Carl Gustav Jung (1957)

"Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter." -James A. Garfield

"In a democratic country, an official who is exposed as corrupt will lose power; in an authoritarian regime, an official who loses power will be exposed as corrupt." -- David Frum, citing an old joke

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains is often more improbable than your having made a mistake in one of your impossibility proofs." -- Steven Kaas

"Once in my life I had a mathematical dream which proved correct. I was twenty years old. I thought, my God, this is wonderful, I won't have to work, it will all come in dreams! But it never happened again." -- Stanislaw Ulam

"A bound service is the server which allows clients (components such as activities) to bind to the Service and then send requests and receive responses." -- [2]