Alan Turing
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Albert Einstein
So far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Bill Gates
... I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Chanakya
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
I need more here ...
R.M.S.
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
He [unknown ...] had betrayed essentially the whole world. He had signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating.
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.
The Matrix
The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Welcome to the real world.
Don't think you are [fast], know you are.
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. [my personal favourite]
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me!
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Denial is the most predictable of human responses.
[quoting from memory ..] Hope. The quintessential human emotion. Simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
Homer Simpson
Wait a minute... I'm in no condition to drive...hmm...Hey, I'm drunk! I shouldn't listen to myself !
To alcohol - The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
Homer no function beer well without.
When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
[Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!
What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. fourfteen percent of people know that.
Operator! Give me the number for 911!
I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T!
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