Quotes II

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

"Ask a Russian engineer to design you a shoe, and he'll give you something that looks like the box the shoe came in. Ask him to design something that will slaughter Germans, and he turns into Thomas fucking Edison." - Neal Stephenson

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage (attributed)

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." - Oscar Wilde (last words)

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue." - Voltaire

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." - Aristotle

"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs." - Albert Einstein

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." - Carl Sagan

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

"For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All work is an act of philosophy." - Ayn Rand

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison (attributed)

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn