"In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own."

"When Marilyn Monroe, the American Venus, visited England, one London correspondent wrote that she looked li…"

"Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it."

"A brazen invitation for something like this to happen"

"But today the fashion is to ascribe the extinction of Buddhism to the persecution of Buddhists by Hindus, t…"

"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

"..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in Englis…"