Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It's dangerous to underestimate the intelligence of a customer who grew a business that's successful enough to require a large and complex set of software

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

If thereÂ’s one thing I know itÂ’s God does love a good joke.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.