“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”
Kōki Hirota (1878–1948) Japanese politician executed
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 49 - by John Toland - History - 2003.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XII, paragraph 6, lines 8-9
“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”
Kōki Hirota (1878–1948) Japanese politician executed
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 49 - by John Toland - History - 2003.
“I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (1968) Danish programmer and creator of PHP
Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 493
1940s
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Life is Wonderful (For those attempting suicide) (1885)
“I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) English politician
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 308.
John Elkann (1976) Italian businessman
"Dinasty calls" http://www.economist.com/node/11328624?story_id=11328624, The Economist, 05-08-2008
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter