People
"Power Corrupts. Absolute Power is kind of neat." — John F. Lehman, Jr.
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are o.k., then it's you." — Rita Mae Brown
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." — Joe Theismann
"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." — Mark Twain
"Sanity is for the weak." — Jonathan Borzilleri
"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" — Voltaire
"The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." — Horace Walpole
"Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." — Albert Einstein
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." — Rich Cook
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." — Walt Disney
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur Clarke
"I have no problem with Christ, but in my experiences Christians are rarely Christ-like" — Dalai Llama
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." — Albert Einstein
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." — Jeremy S. Anderson
"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
"Tis better to argue a point and not settle it, than to settle a point and not argue it." — J. Joubert
"I hope you don't take me seriously. I certainly wouldn't." — Ani DiFranco
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." — John F. Kenedy
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." — Goethe
"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege." — Joseph Stalin
"He who cannot lie knows not what truth is." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." — Mark Twain
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." — Philip K. Dick
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." — Oscar Wilde
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." — Oscar Wilde
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." — Rudyard Kipling
"If we get used to life, that is a crime." — Jean Garrigue
"Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?" — James L. Brooks
"Deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive -- and to detect deception -- are less apt to survive." — Harriet Lerner
"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building." — Charles Shultz
"A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one way street." — Doug Linder
"Only the shallow know themselves." — Oscar Wilde
"Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm." — John F. Kenedy
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." — John F. Kenedy
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." — John F. Kenedy
"Aesthetics is for the artists as ornithology is for the birds." — Barnett Newman
"Art is frozen Zen" — R. H. Blyth
"Even a victory is no cause for rejoicing. To rejoice over a victory is to rejoice over the slaughter of men." — Lau-tse
"Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway." — Mahatma Gandhi
"I want, once and for all, NOT to know many things. Wisdom sets limit to knowledge too." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." — Oscar Wilde
"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce." — Mark Twain
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." — Albert Einstein
"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing." — Dick Brandon
"Let's face the obvious. Yesterday we were nerds. Today we're the cognitive elite. Let's conquer." — Chester G. Edwards
"Democracy substitutes selection by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." — George Bernard Shaw
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." — A. Whitney Brown
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." — Danny Cevidanes
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." — Buddha
"Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under it's own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art." — Bill Gates, 1983
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" — Scott Adams
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." — Margaret Mead
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher, and that is a good thing for any man." — Socrates
"Believe in those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it." — Andre Gide
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of a life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." — Henry Brook Adams
"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." — Herbert Agar
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie!' until you can find a rock." — Wynn Catlin
"Is man only a blunder of God, or is God only a blunder of man?" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Religion is comparable to childhood neurosis." — Sigmund Freud
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth." — Oscar Wilde
"Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at it's end." — Henry Spencer
"Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?" — Jules Feiffer
"We are all born mad. Some remain so." — Samuel Beckett
"If I hammered a three-way plug adapter into my skull and plugged my head into a wall-socket I'd certainly be getting a lot more intellectual stimulation than I'm getting now." — Kara Bunting
"Coincidences are spiritual puns." — G. K. Chesterton
"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." — Harry S. Truman
"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." — Socrates
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't." — Erica Jones
"Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." — Albert Einstein
"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." — Ghandi
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." — Oscar Wilde
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." — Howard Aiken
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon." — Senator George Aiken
"Perversiveness is one of the primary impulses of the human heart." — Edgar Allen Poe
"Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't." — H. L. Mencken
"Any nitwit can understand computers. Many do." — Ted Nelson
"A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems." — Alred Renyi
"I have nothing to declare but my genius." — Oscar Wilde
"UNIX is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully." — Jonathan H. N. Chin
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." — Niels Bohr
"A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent." — R. D. Laing
"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'. They say 'President', we say 'Stupid Psychopathic Git'." — Alexai Sayle
"In the 'Friendly Political Discussion, World Absurdities' board, it is perfectly O.K. to call John Ashcroft an ass-hole." — Sean K. Reynolds
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin
"It's going to be a trilogy." — Robert Jordan, 1989
"To iterate is human; to recurse, divine." — Robert Heller
"Plurality should not be posited without necessity." — Occam's Razor, William of Ockham
"The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably." — Tom Duff, Bell Labs
"Whenever possible, steal code." — Tom Duff, Bell Labs
"Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." — John A. Hrastar
"Pure mathematics is the subject in which we do not know what we are talking about, or whether what we are saying is true." — Bertrand Russell
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." — Anais Nin
"Wise men talk, because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." — Plato
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." — Bertrand Russell
"Never apologize. Never Explain." — Neil Gaiman
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." — John Gall
"Why repeat the same mistakes over again when there are whole new mistakes I could be making?" — Igni, elitistjerks.com forums
"Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." — Michael Sinz