I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

Ralph Merkle

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

Susan Sontag

You can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility for delegating a task to someone else. If you picked the right man, fine, but if you picked the wrong man, the responsibility is yours -- not his.

Richard E Krafve

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

Ronnie James Dio

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Gore Vidal

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn

John Barrymore

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Heinrich Heine