In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. – Stewart Alsop
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat