If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Watch your thoughts; they become your words...
Watch your words; they become your actions...
Watch your actions; they become your habits...
Watch your habits; they become your character...
Watch your character, for it will become your destiny.
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds.
Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.
EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.