Countdown interview, Mascot Airport, Sydney, April 1976.
“We never taste a perfect joy;
Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”
Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse:
Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse.
Don Diègue, act III, scene v.
Le Cid (1636)
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies
Video commentary featured on website of the Chicago Public Education Fund http://www.cpef.org/nm_video.htm#
Spoken on his return to India from England as recorded in From Colombo to Almora (1904), Calcutta, p. 221
Context: No one ever landed on English soil with more hatred in his heart for a race than I did for the English, and, on this platform, are present English friends who can bear witness to the fact, but the more I lived among them, saw how the machine is working, the English national life, mixed with them, found where the heart-beat of the nation was, the more I loved them. There is none among you here present, my brothers, who loves the English people more than I do. You have to see what is going on there, and you have to mix with them. As the philosophy, our national philosophy of the Vedanta, has summarised all misfortune, all misery from that one cause, ignorance, herein also we must understand that the difficulties that arise between us and the English people are mostly due to that ignorance; we do not know them, they do not know us.
“Characters,” p. 306
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
“It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style”
About the C programming language, vs. C++
Re: RFC Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library., 7 Sep 2007, gmane.comp.version-control.git, 12 Sep 2012 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57957,
2000s, 2007
“Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.”
Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 19
376 - 379
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 25.
