Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them. – Alois Alzheimer
Todays medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. Thats been tried too often. Todays medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation. – Maurice Delort
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. – Niklaus Wirth
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I dont know whats goin on, I then got the money, and gone. – Dolly Parton