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
David Lean 
William Samuel Johnson 
Gower Champion 
Lloyd Kaufman 
Gregg Easterbrook 
Dean Inge 
Eisaku Sato 
Robin Trower