Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Enrico Fermi

It's often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Member of Parliament: “Mr. Churchill, must you fall asleep while I'm speaking?”
Churchill: “No, it's purely voluntary.”

Sir Winston Churchill

Bessie Braddock: “Winston, you're drunk!”
Churchill: “You're right, Bessie. And you're ugly. But tomorrow morning I'll be sober. And you'll still be ugly.”

Sir Winston Churchill

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Charles Dudley Warner (commonly attributed to Mark Twain)

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Tommy Cooper

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion”

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Voltaire

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said “The what of a what?” which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

Ronnie Shakes

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Mae West

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron.

Peter Drucker

Whatever you will do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

Wilson Mizner

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George S. Patton

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Steven Pinker

I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, godammit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well… hmmm… I dunno… I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.

Bill Hicks