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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."

Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.

"Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog."

"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."

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Gandhi

"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear."
-- Norm (Cheers)

Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries.

Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
-- Horngren

Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.

Primus in orbe Deus fecit timor.
"It was fear that introduced gods into the world."

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley

Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
-- R. D. Lang

An eye for an eye soon makes the world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"We all know god invented liquor to keep the Irish from ruling the world."
(The Ghost and The Darkness)

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

"...screws fall out all the time, sir. The world is an imperfect place."
-- Bender (Breakfast Club)

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
-- Friedrick Nietzsche

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
-- Steven Wright

"And then the world went mad. All right, madder."
-- Terry Pratchett (Pyramids)

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey

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."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
-- Hemingway

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

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)

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

"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."

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
-- Gen. Omar N. Bradley

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost

"In America sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact."
-- Marlene Dietrich

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.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
-- Keith Sullivan

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)

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

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.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
-- Margaret Cho

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

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

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 most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-- H.P. Lovecraft

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

"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)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
-- Alan Keightley

There's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.
-- Silent Bob (Clerks)

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift