A company will get nowhere if all the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita (founder of Sony)

Quality … is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for.

Peter Drucker

Computers perform tasks which in humans requires intelligence.

BBC series “The dream machine”

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Mason Cooley

In the early [19]50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they tried the same thing in the [19]60s it instantly collapsed because people simply laughed at it so they couldn't do it. Even a dictatorship can't do everything it wants. It's got to have some degree of popular support.

Noam Chomsky

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C Clarke

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Chiunque conduca un argomento appellandosi all’autorità non usa la sua intelligenza ma la sua memoria.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses not his understanding, but his memory.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

Clarence Darrow

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Dickens

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

That natural reality is assumed rather than explained, is not proof for the existence of a creator. Introducing god as an explanatory notion only shifts the locus of the question: why would such a god exist? And, it is possible that the universe just happens to exist, without explanation.

Willem B Drees

We know the meaning of “consciousness” so long as no one asks us to define it.

William James

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein

No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

Hugh Elliot

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

David Feherty

Religion is the idol of the mob: it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick the Great

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering.

Buckminster Fuller

Many religious beliefs decline as education level rises.

George Gallup, Jr., “The People's Religion: American Faith in the 1990s”

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux

That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen. [Shouts:] Run, little boy. Run for your life!

Alfred Hitchcock, upon seeing a priest talking to a little boy