David Pogue Quotes

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

You can still function as a living ruin.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.