Quotes from authors born on May 17th
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
Ayatollah Khomeini
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
Sugar Ray Leonard
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
Edward Jenner
Kathleen Kenyon 
Freddy Fender 
Arthur Cayley 
Terry Semel 
Georg Simmel 
Stephane Mallarme 
Pierre de Fermat 
Hume Cronyn