Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

People have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Mignon McLaughlin

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who make excuses.

George Washington

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Whitespace should never have meaning in programming. That's why Python sucks just as bad as RPG.

Stevenvh

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Condoleezza Rice

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'

Ronald Graham

If you have democracy people will vote for washing machines. They love them!

Hans Rosling

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Hans Rosling

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Tim Minchin

Burning a book is like burning a bra. After the adrenalin rush of the symbolic moment wears off, all you're left with is a pile of ashes and unsupported boobs.

Tim Minchin

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Tim Minchin

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Tim Minchin

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things.
If you need proof: Twain, Adams, Vonnegut, McEwen, Sagan, Shakespeare, Dickens. For a start.
You don’t need to be superstitious to be a poet. You don’t need to hate GM technology to care about the beauty of the planet. You don’t have to claim a soul to promote compassion.
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Tim Minchin

Pawns are like buttons, lose too many and your pants fall down.

Belgian-born chess legend George Koltanowski

The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.

Suze Orman

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

Aristotle, "Politics"

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

John J. McCloy

Science is like sex. Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not why we are doing it.

Richard Feynman

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Arnold Newman

He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

Hypatia of Alexandria

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Hypatia of Alexandria