In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.