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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
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.-- Elbert Hubbard
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-- Robert Frost
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
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
Adolescence, n: The stage between puberty and adultery.
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
As far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.-- Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
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
"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
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
"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
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)
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 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
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")
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
My karma ran over my dogma.
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")