The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Baruch Spinoza

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.

Steve Maraboli

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Toni Morrison

Not under man but under God and law.non sub homine sed sub deo et lege, The quotation frames the entry to the Harvard Law Library.

Henry de Bracton

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Plato

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

William Bradford Shockley

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners-Lee

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Ninon De L'Enclos

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not man disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

Thomas Traherne