I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open – any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. – Dennis Ritchie
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. – Nguyen Cao Ky
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. – Emile Zola
I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. – Max Frisch
It isn’t fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she’s taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. – Dee Dee Myers
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It’s like something else has other plans for me. – Christopher Atkins
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. – Novalis
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don’t give a second thought to the chances we take. – Gloria Estefan
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-’60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate. – P. J. O’Rourke
Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all. – Martin Goldsmith
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. – Martin Rees
Personally, I would say the ‘master’ of this whole thing is fate… Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it’s up to them to avoid being used. – Cliff Burton
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate. – Gene Wilder
I’m not a religious person, so I’m not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it’s got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye’s stories always to that. – Caroline Dhavernas
Homelessness is the actor’s fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. – Edwin Booth
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls. – Caitlin Flanagan