It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Francis Bacon

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Alan Kay

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

Stephen Richards

Choice strengthens all.

Neal Prescot

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Larry Adler

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Gertrude Stein

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

W. H. Auden

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Eugene Ionesco

I love to doubt as well as know.

Dante Alighieri

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Barack Obama