In no particular order. Inspired by http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html

`“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”`

`-Douglas Adams`

`“By convention there is sweetness, by convention bitterness, by convention color. In reality only atoms and the void.”` 

`–Democritus`

`“I think there is a market for about 5 computers.”`

 `-Thomas J Watson, 1943`

`“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”`

`-Douglas Adams`

`“The best things in life are free. The next best things are always very expensive.”` 

`-Coco Chanel`

`“Double it or cut it in half.”`

`-Sid Meier`

`“Not just from a design perspective but also from the user interface one, technology will gradually disappear and the next operating system will be a combination of your eyesight and sound."`

`-Jesper Kouthoofd`

`“Indifference operates passively, but it operates.”`

`-Antonio Gramsci`

`“The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy.”`

`-Yevgeny Zamyatin`

`“It’s so good that even after it puts your company out of business, you’ll still want to go out and buy it for your kids.”`

`-Steve Jobs about the Lisa computer`

`“Consensus is the absence of leadership.”` 

`-Margaret Thatcher` 

`“The best way to keep your balance on a bicycle is to keep moving.”`

`-Albert Einstein`

`“Closed thoughts and an open face.”`

`-Sir Henry Wootton`

`“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”`

`-Ralph Waldo Emerson`

`“Humans are intelligent to the extent that our actions can be expected to achieve our objectives. All those other characteristics of intelligence - perceiving, thinking, learning, inventing, and so on - can be understood through their contributions to our ability to act successfully.”`

`-Stuart Russell`

`“Interpersonal comparison of utilities has no meaning and, in fact, there is no meaning relevant to welfare comparisons in the measurability of individual utility.”`

`-Kenneth Arrow`

`“People don’t want a mortgage, they want a house. They don’t want an auto loan, they want a car to get to work. They don’t want a savings account, they want a way to buy the things they want”`

`-some banker`

`“The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.”`

`-Napoleon Bonaparte` 

`“‘Artist’ is not an occupation - it’s an honorific title.”`

`-W David Marx`

`“Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); it’s principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).”`

`-Ursula K. le Guin`

`“Quantity has a quality of its own.”`

`-Joseph Stalin`

“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.” -Mikhail Bakunin

“Modern art has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake. What purports to be art begins to look like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that any personalized action is of intrinsic value simply as a display of self-will.” -Andrei Tarkovsky