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x First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.   William Shakespeare Henry VI, part 2    
x ...O brave new world, That has such people in't!   William Shakespeare The Tempest Miranda
O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!-Miranda Act V, scene i
x ...the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output P. G. Wodehouse The Luck of the Bodkins  
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
x Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.   Rita Mae Brown Sudden Death    
x An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...   Dietrich Dörner The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Right  
An individual'™s reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong, and one would do well to keep that probability in mind. But this is easier said than done. People are most inclined to...
x I never said half the things I really said   Yogi Berra      
x It ain't over till it's over   Yogi Berra      
x I want to thank you for making this day necessary.   Yogi Berra      
x It's like déjà vu all over again.   Yogi Berra      
x It gets late early out there.   Yogi Berra      
x I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner...   Yogi Berra      
x Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.   Yogi Berra      
x You can observe a lot by just watching.   Yogi Berra      
x The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.   Alex Cox Repo Man Miller
One of Miller (Tracey Walter)'s philosophical outbursts in the repo junk yard.
x Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand   Kurt Vonnegut      
x New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. vonnegut1.jpg Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions    
x A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.   Carl Sagan Contact    
x Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.   Buckminster Fuller      
x Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.   Buckminster Fuller      
x Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde      
x I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde      
x I'll Be Back /wikipedia/images/en_id/910011 Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2: Judgment Day The Terminator
"I'll be back" is a catch phrase associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which he first used in his role as the title character from the 1984 science fiction thriller film The Terminator. In the original shooting script, the line was written as "I'll...
x Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...   Immanuel Kant Critique of Practical Reason  
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. (transl.: Thomas Kingsmill Abbott) Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit...
x If we don't play God, who will?   James D. Watson      
x Open the pod bay doors, HAL.     2001: A Space Odyssey David Bowman  
Dave Bowman
x What I cannot create, I do not understand.   Richard Feynman      
x What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.   Woody Allen Without Feathers    
x However many ways there are of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.   Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker    
x This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.   Paul Dirac      
x It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.   George F. Kennan      
x Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage   Terry Pratchett Men at Arms Gaspode  
x A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.   Nilsson The Point! The Rock Man  
x I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.     2001: A Space Odyssey HAL 9000  
x It can only be attributable to human error.     2001: A Space Odyssey HAL 9000  
x Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong   Ted Nelson      
x Information...is a difference that makes a difference.   Gregory Bateson Steps to an Ecology of Mind  
A difference is a very peculiar and obscure concept. It is certainly not a thing or an event. This piece of paper is different than the wood of this lectern. There are many differences between them - of colour, texture, shape, etc... Of this...
x The map is not the territory.   Alfred Korzybski A Non-Aristotelian System and its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics    
x Quality is value to some person.   Gerald Weinberg Quality Software Management Volume 1: Systems Thinking    
x Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software under test.   Cem Kaner      
x Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.   James Bach      
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x A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. RWEmerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series    
x The best way to predict the future is to invent it.   Alan Kay    
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do... The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!
x The medium is the message.   Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man    
x For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot Four Quartets  
From T. S. Eliot's poem, East Coker, part of the Four Quartets.
x Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.   Immanuel Kant    
Immanuel Kant's quote on theory and experience.
x Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.   Immanuel Kant      
x In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.   Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut      
x An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.   Friedrich Engels      
x Don't worry about people stealing your ideas...   Howard Aiken    
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
x Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... Alan Turing Alan Turing    
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
x No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain... Alan Turing Alan Turing    
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
x Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.   Indira Gandhi      
x My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.   Indira Gandhi      
x You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.   Indira Gandhi      
x You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.   Indira Gandhi      
x There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.   Indira Gandhi      
x The power to question is the basis of all human progress.   Indira Gandhi      
x My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.   Indira Gandhi      
x Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.   Indira Gandhi      
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