My Lame Quotes Page

We do exactly what we would do if this Q never existed. If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
-- Captain Picard

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
-- Ransom K. Ferm

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
-- Proverbs 29:18

Of course, when Picasso made the comment about computers being uninteresting, we know that he was really seeking to advance a discourse in which it was the role of artists to challenge the establishment, ask questions, or at least see that the correct serving of fries accompanied each order.
--Peter van der Linden

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, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
--Han Solo

Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
-- 1 Peter 2:16

Avoid overly pretentious job titles such as "Lord of the Realm, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India" or "Director of Corporate Planning.
--Official MBA Handbook on business cards

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
--Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague

For every complex problem, there is an answer that is short, simple and wrong.
--H. L. Mencken

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
-- Sir J. Lubbock

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
-- Abraham Lincoln

God is a subtle spirit.
--Albert Einstein

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
--Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe.
--Albert Einstein

Stop telling God what to do.
--Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
--Jacob Bronowski

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
--E. W. Dijkstra

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
--Carl Sagan

Humanity will not merely endure, it will prevail.
-- William Faulkner