Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 07, 2017
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
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Alan Perlis  
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)  
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
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Herbert Agar  
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
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