You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan Perlis

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Earl Nightingale

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Jack LaLanne

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
Walter Lord

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman

You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach