We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.

The beginning is always today.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

What we call results are beginnings.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning anf a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

The beginning is the half of every action.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.