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If the automobile had followed the same development 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 Cringely ("InfoWorld")
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
Half of the people in the world are below average.
This world doesn't need fixing. It needs changing.
"Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot."
"Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog."
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
"I'm not mad at the world... just at all the people in it."
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.-- Franz Kafka
'Mundus vult decipi'
(the world wants to be deceived)
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
"If hackers ran the world, there'd be no war. Lots of accidents, maybe."
The liberal does not hope for a better world, because liberal ideology already that this is the best world it can be.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-- Gandhi
Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries.
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear."-- Norm (Cheers)
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.-- Horngren
Primus in orbe Deus fecit timor.
"It was fear that introduced gods into the world."
Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.-- R. D. Lang
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.-- Lily Tomlin
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.-- Paul Beatty
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."-- Henrik Ibsen
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."-- Friedrick Nietzsche
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.-- Albert Einstein
Punctuation is important. There is a world of semantic difference between "Damn straight." and "Damn, straight."
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.-- Steven Wright
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.-- E. B. White
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.-- Sean O'Casey
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."-- Hemingway
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-- Oscar Wilde
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.-- Mark Twain
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-- Albert Einstein
"As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart."-- Derek Jarman
If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us." (Calvin & Hobbes)
"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."-- Steve Witham
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."-- Horace Walpole
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Especially Bob Dylan.-- Jim Rosenberg
"One of the CIA's few endearing traits is its penchant for making headlines. It is the world's most fully headlined secret agency."
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
"In America sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact."-- Marlene Dietrich
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.-- Keith Sullivan
The fact that I know I'm often a fool, but that I also have an IQ a fair bit over a hundred, scares me. What fools the rest of the world must be.
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.-- Mark Twain
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”-- Anais Nin
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile."-- Franklin P. Jones
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.-- Margaret Cho
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.-- Carl Sagan
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.-- Amy Lowell
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. But you know most of them didn't get the joke in the first place, the lying weasels.-- Wade Kwon
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."-- Henry Louis Mencken
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."-- H.P. Lovecraft
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
"When your world looks kind of mean, and you wish that you weren't there.... Just close your eyes and look beneath, and you can be anywhere...." (Muppet Babies Theme Song)