A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- - William James

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

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
- - Wernher von Braun

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- - Albert Einstein

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a
humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of
about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is
very good for us to understand that.
- - Carl Sagan

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of
the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-
eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended
life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
- - Douglas Adams

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do
don't need to be done
- - Andy Rooney

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- - Pablo Picasso

If I have made myself clear, you must have misunderstood me.
- - Alan Greenspan

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we
are doing it
- - Richard Feynman

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- - Sen. Everett Dirksen


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