Virginia Woolf

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.