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"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."-- Dogbert (Dilbert)
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.-- Albert Camus
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."-- Robert Hummel
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired-- Robert Frost
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.-- Robert Bly
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.-- Robert Park
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.-- Elbert Hubbard
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.-- Elbert Hubbard
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.-- Albert Einstein
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.-- Robert Benchley
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-- Albert Einstein
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.-- Albert Einstein
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."-- Herbert Hoover
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.-- Robert Heinlein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.-- Albert Einstein
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together-- Herbert Prochnow
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.-- Albert Einstein
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-- Robert Frost
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.-- Elbert Hubbard
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.-- Albert Einstein
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."-- Robert R. Coveyou
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.-- Bertrand Russell
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.-- Albert Einstein
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-- Albert Einstein
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."-- Robert Frost
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?-- Albert Einstein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."-- Bertrand Russell
As far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.-- Bertrand Russell
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.-- Robert Frost
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.-- Robert A. Heinlein
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.-- Albert Camus
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.-- Bertrand Russell
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."-- Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.-- Robert A. Heinlein
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."-- Frank Herbert
Adolescence, n: The stage between puberty and adultery.
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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Albert Einstein
In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.-- Albert Camus
What is wanted is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.-- Bertrand Russell
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.-- Elbert Hubbard
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.-- Robert Pirsig
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."-- Robert Benchley
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."-- Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.-- Albert Einstein
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.-- Albert Einstein
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.-- Bertrand Russell
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.-- Albert Einstein
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
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."-- Bertrand Russell
"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
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.-- Bertrand Russell
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend-- Albert Camus
"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."-- Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.-- Albert Einstein
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.-- Bertrand Russell
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."-- Bertrand Russell
"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
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.-- Albert Einstein
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.-- Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts.-- Bertrand Russell
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.-- Gustave Flaubert
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
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)-- Robert A. Heinlein
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."-- Umberto Eco
Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.-- Bertrand Russell
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."-- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.-- Albert Einstein
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)
You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.-- Albert Einstein
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.-- Bertrand Russell
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")
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