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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)