[A]nd then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. – Bill Bryson
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats. – The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June 1985
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. Thats an education in itself. – Carol Burnett
Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped off the human drama. You, as doctors, will be in a position to see the human race stark naked — not only physically, but mentally and morally as well. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. – J. Robert Oppenheimer
