To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.