C. D. Tavares

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

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

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I think I am basically a happy person.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The unexamined life is not worth living.