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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

Category
People

A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Le Corbusier

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics....One, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm....Two...a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Isaac Asimov

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.

Alfred Edward Newton

A computer is a universal machine that can carry out any task that can be described in symbols.

Alan Turing in Hugh Whitemore's play “Breaking the code”

Computers can be programmed to perform tasks which in humans requires intelligence.

Alan Turing in Hugh Whitemore's play “Breaking the code”, (paraphrased)

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

Ricardo Semler

You become what you study.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Danica McKellar

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Aldous Huxley

Es scheint uns, als wäre für wissenschaftliche oder künstlerische Höchstleistungen ein Schuss Autismus geradezu notwendig.

“It seems that for scientific or artistic excellence a dash of autism is needed.”

Hans Asperger

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Paul Erdos

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

Tony Attwood

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.

Tony Attwood

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Alan Turing

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

Nancy Friday

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Simon Sinek

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested they want to contribute.

Simon Sinek

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker