The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. – Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of ones contributions to computer science. – Donald Knuth
Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
