Dennis Lehane Quote

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.