A huge collection of inspiring quotes, you can read more by following on twitter :) Although I haven’t updated that in a while…
“Nothing else matters, it seems, apart from gold”
Pythermus (6th century BC) only surviving writings
fr 910 cited in “Greek Lyric Poetry” by West 1993, p114
“Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a ‘necessary evil’, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.”
- Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986)
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war…. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.”
- C.S Lewis
“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint … but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”
- C.S Lewis
“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
- Spike Milligan
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
- Bill Blake (ok, William Blake)
“When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.”
- Arthur C. Clarke
“When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow’s-point-of-view is seldom necessary.”
- Terry Pratchet
“In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
- Terry Pratchet
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
- Mary Shelley
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
- Philip K. Dick source
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost.”
- JRR Tolkien
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
- Aldous Huxley
“At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
- Italian Proverb
“Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Truth is the safest lie.”
- Jewish Proverb
“Only a fool tests the water with both feet.”
- African Proverb
“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
- Morpheus (matrix)
“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night…mostly.”
- Newt (aliens)
“The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
– (Unknown)
“Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we’ll all get up, it’ll be anarchy!”
- Bender (breakfast club)
“All your base are belong to us.”
- CATS
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”
- Edward R. Murrow
“Pollution. Crime. Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair–we throw gobs of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? Because money’s most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don’t have it.”
- Cosmo (sneakers)
“At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.”
- Aldous Huxley
“He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.”
- Sun Tzu
“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
- Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.”
- Bjarne Stroustrup
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
- Orlando A. Battista
“You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”
- Neil Kinnock
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.”
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
- Plato (427-347 BCE)
“We have art to save ourselves from the truth.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
“The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It’s run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It’s all just electrons.”
- Cosmo (sneakers)
“The intelligence of the world is a constant. The population is increasing.”
– Unknown
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
- Steven Wright
“In a world where data is the coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.”
- This Alien Shore
“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.”
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
- Vince Lombardi
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
- Franz Kafka
“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.”
- G. B. Burgin
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
- Jimi Hendrix
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
- Xenocrates (396-314 BCE)
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Yeah, but it’ll come calling itself anti-fascist.”
- Huey Long (when asked if fascism could come to America)
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.”
- Emo Phillips (1956- )
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.”
- Dom Helder Camara
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
- C. A. R. Hoare
“There is a war out there, old friend. A World War. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets, its about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think. Its all about the Information.”
- Cosmo (sneakers)
“A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”
- Mae West (1892-1980)
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”
- Abba Eban (1915-)
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
- Sun Tzu
” The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- Alan Kay
“I think it would be a good idea.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BCE)
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
- Tom Clancy
“I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.”
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
“Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
“Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
“A ‘fact’ merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.”
- Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.”
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
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