Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was ‘neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service’.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies.
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
It is always healthy to be honest.
When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.