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`
`"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."`
`–Richard Feynman`
`“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.”`
`-Charles Darwin`
`“When you give roses to others, their fragrance lingers on your hand.”`
`-Chinese proverb`
`“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises”`
`-John F Kennedy`
`“The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining.”`
`-John F Kennedy`
`“Programs must be written for people to read and only incidentally for machines to execute.”`
`-Hal Abelson`
`“*Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”*`
`*-Orange Catholic Bible, Dune*`
`“I had tried the glass slipper, and it fit. In the fairy tale that is where the story ends. In life it’s merely the beginning of a new chapter.”`
`-Madeleine Albright`
`“True leadership requires the capacity to shape public opinion, not merely reflect it.”`
`-Madeleine Albright`
`“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”`
`-Jhumpa Lahiri`
`“The business of America is business.” -Calvin Coolidge`
`“There was a considerable reluctance at that time among bankers to finance anybody or anything connected with the automobile industry. The bankers were almost unanimous in believing that the automobile was a passing fancy and would come and go just the way the bicycle had.” -Harvey Firestone, 1920.`
`“In these matters, you know, use follows invention.” -Frank Rosenblatt 1958, when asked about uses for the Perceptron algorithm`
`“Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines.” -Herbert Read`