Famous Quotations by famous People.....14

"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup