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To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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")
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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 jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost
'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land)
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
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
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies
"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
"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
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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)
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")
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
-- Albert Einstein
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
"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."
-- Dogbert (Dilbert)
You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.
-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
-- Robertson Davies ("A Voice from the Attic," 1960)
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
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
-- Herbert Hoover
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
-- Albert Einstein
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
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
-- Albert Einstein
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
-- Herbert Prochnow
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
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.
-- Albert Camus
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
-- Justice Robert Jackson
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
-- Frank Herbert
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
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"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
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
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surely curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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
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
"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