friendship

"Today the value of everything has increased. Men sell their sperm and women their ova for a great deal of money, but ironically, in many countries, a child can be purchased for prostitution or forced …"

"I would never say "I'm straight, I'm bisexual, I'm gay". I feel like I will fall in love with a human being for who they are. I'm not afraid to say I've been attracted to a woman before and I've kisse…"

"Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel q…"

"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."

"There is really nothing more to say — except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

"Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession."

"They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I fou…"

"Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."

"I see your vile implication. My only explanation for it is that you are criminally insane."

"I really see nothing of other people. I'm trying to dig my way back again into my work. One absolutely has to dedicate oneself, every bit of oneself, to the one inescapable thing. That's the only way …"

"Any organization calling itself “The Friends of This or That” always consisted of someone with an axe to grind, plus the usual assortment of prominent custard heads and professional stuffed shirts."

"One of the first algebraists to accept negative numbers was... who occasionally placed a negative number by itself on one side of an equation. But he did not accept negative roots.... gave clear defin…"

"All three spoke in the kind of down-home, common-as-flies style that is the lingua franca of great scientists, conveying a contempt for pretension, a contempt for cant, a delight in common sense, comb…"

"Another old friend gone!"

"Consider an opening musical number set in a maternity ward, where Tommy Pickles and his friends Chuckie Finster and Phil and Lil DeVille are hoping for a look at Tommy's new kid brother, Dilbert. They…"

"Unless in fact he had a very dim memory of her and the photograph had blown on the tiny little ember of his connection with his granny, like a faint orange glow in a heap of soft grey ash, and for a m…"

"Thursday is practically Friday and Friday is Friday."

"Madonna is the only modern celebrity who is truly a style icon. Who else has the audacity to dress like her these days? She really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me re…"

"create a totally androgynous world where men and women would become virtually indistinguishable."

"Actually I can't, I need you to tell me which ones you object to."