The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Oscar Wilde

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Charles Babbage

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Aristotle

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

James Russell Lowell

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Paula Poundstone

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Steven Wright

All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world?

George R.R. Martin

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Jack Welch

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public.

Jimmy Breslin

As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Maurice Wilkes