Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.
Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.
Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.