The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. – Henry Louis Mencken
When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril. – Harry S. Truman
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do. – Paul Graham
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. – Kim Campbell
I dont think theres anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. – Warren Farrell