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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
"The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us."
"Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
"In the long run we are all dead."
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one"
"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope."
"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
"A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other."
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target."
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec."
"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
"Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?"
"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
"It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room temperature."
"How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on."
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
"There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing."
"Proofreading is more effective after publication."
"There are lies, there and damned lies, and then there are statistics."
"There are two rules for success... 1) Never tell everything you know."
"There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are only two kinds of people in the world and those who don't."
"There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by
circumstances to meet."
"Winning isn't everything"
"The person who said 'Winning isn't everything', never won anything"
"Nothing is free. Even age. Age is the fee god charges for life".
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