poems for the dead

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. ~Frederick Brooks, Jr.



I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing. ~Author Unknown



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Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955



Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant



Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois



Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein



Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858



The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself. ~Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995



Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley



Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford



In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. ~Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989



Even God has to practice his putting. ~Golf Saying



If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You



I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~Jean Cocteau



Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~George Bernard Shaw



The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson



Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches. ~Author Unknown