Quotes of the Day
Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 22, 2016
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
- If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott
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