The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the…

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs…

— Richard E. Pattis

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works…

— Will Durant

“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a…

— Ambrose Bierce

People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

— Frederick Lenz

“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its…

— Carlos Castaneda

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even…

— Anonymous

“an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself no one else can know you ”

— Rodney Hall

“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band most challenged…

— R.A. Lafferty

“People like to talk a big game. They may talk about religion or magic and superstition but in the end, this is merely a…

— John Kreiter

“Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead, they use…

— H.M. Forester

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

— Rod Serling

“It’s sorcery,” Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. “That’s the explanation.” “I’m a scientist,” she said. “I need a little…

— Christopher Farnsworth

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that…

— Zeena Schreck

“Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell…

— Stephen R. Lawhead