When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.