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"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

"In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good."

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words."

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none."

"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."

"Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction."

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

"Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital."

"Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler."

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."

"We are there to serve our subscribers, not serve them up."

"There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide."

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change."

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."