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'Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.'
(1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.)
"Finding out what goes on in the C.I.A. is like performing acupuncture on a rock."
-- New York Times
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-- Abbie Hoffman
The revolution will NOT be televised.
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
-- Robert Fulghum
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'."
-- Mark Twain
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein