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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.)

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People

Ultimately AI will allow computers to make the same mistakes as humans do, only a lot faster.

Stevenvh

If the auto industry had moved at the same speed as our industry, then your car today would cruise comfortably at a million miles per hour, probably get half a million miles per gallon of gasoline. But it would be cheaper to throw away your Rolls-Royce and buy a new one than to park it downtown for the evening.

Gordon Moore, Chairman of Intel Corporation

I love mankind... It's people I can't stand!

Linus Van Pelt

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

Ernest Hemingway

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Jules Renard

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

Gandalf

In a world where everybody is mentally retarded the average IQ is still 100.

Stevenvh

The human brain is condemned to finding patterns, even when they're not there.

Stevenvh

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Stephen Hawking

Asking for help is a signal of strength.

unknown

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

George Carlin

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W.C. Fields

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Victor Hugo

Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Mark Twain

No good deed goes unpunished.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde