+%
+We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive
+our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved
+the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations.
+This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
+in a vast and awesome universe.
+ -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
+%
+Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
+have exhausted all other possibilities.
+ -- W. Churchill
+%
+As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
+instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
+unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
+of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting
+victims of the darkness.
+ -- William O. Douglas
+%
+One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
+in time.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
+research.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
+something.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to
+die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
+wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
+ -- Cyrano de Bergerac
+%
+Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune
+to water.
+ -- Michael Z. Williamson
+%
+A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails.
+%
+We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die
+together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to
+live together we have to talk.
+ -- Eleanor Roosevelt
+%
+A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
+ -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
+%
+Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his
+character, give him power.
+ -- Abraham Lincoln
+%
+When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
+by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
+ -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents"
+%
+Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
+rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
+these defects".
+ -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_
+%
+No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this
+does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_
+%
+The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
+the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
+benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
+curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
+ -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
+%
+I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
+up where I needed to be.
+ -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_
+%
+Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what
+it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
+universe.
+ -- Douglas Adams
+%
+PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic
+environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of
+fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked
+into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon
+behind the computer has something significant to say.
+ -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33
+%
+This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic
+ -- Terry Pratchett
+%
+Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or
+derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But
+the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer
+to achieve immortality by not dying.
+ -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_
+%
+Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their
+faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord
+Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a
+12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges.
+ -- Terry Pratchet _Mort_
+%
+He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said
+that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He
+was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little
+begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as
+if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
+ -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_
+%
+I really wanted to talk to her.
+I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
+ -- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294
+%
+Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's going to inquire
+just how most people died. The best thing is to do it in the way that
+strikes your fancy most.
+ -- Kenzaburō Ōe _Silent Cry_ p5
+%
+I learned really early the difference between knowing the name of
+something and knowing something
+ -- Richard Feynman "What is Science" Phys. Teach. 7(6) 1969
+%
+Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle
+is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to
+fool.
+ -- Richard Feynman "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific
+ Culture in Modern Society"; 1964
+%
+To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an
+authority myself
+ -- Albert Einstein
+%
+The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
+invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila
+ -- Mitch Ratcliffe
+%
+Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
+you do it.
+ -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
+%
+You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe
+would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357
+%
+G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?
+EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and
+scatter oneself over a wide area.
+ -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
+%
+Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes
+people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the
+hangover's even worse.
+ -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039
+ http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039
+%
+Who is thinking this?
+I am.
+ -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38
+%
+I have no use for "before and after" pictures.
+I can't remember starting, and I'm never done.
+ -- a softer world #221
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=221
+%
+Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue
+to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your
+flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
+ -- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man Month
+%
+Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a
+preoccupation with the next world clearly signals an inability to cope
+credibly with this one.
+ -- Richard K. Morgan "Broken Angels" p65
+%
+After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has
+stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if an enemy has
+an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Jingo_ p265
+%
+Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to
+be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise
+them in comfort.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111
+%
+J.W. Grant: "Bastard!"
+Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir,
+you're a self-made man."
+ -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals"
+%
+"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
+a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from
+asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my
+mother told me when I was young."
+"Why, what did she tell you?"
+"I don't know, I didn't listen."
+ –- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_
+%
+a friend will help you move
+a best friend will help you move bodies
+but if you have to move your best friend's body
+you're on your own
+ -- a softer world #242
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242
+%
+It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
+to open a bottle of whine.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270
+%
+The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous.
+If you think about it, your honour,
+I'm an environmentalist.
+ -- a softer world #283
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283
+%
+We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III.
+Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If
+it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
+ -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_
+%
+"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak
+up for them as have no voices."
+ -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
+%
+But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
+dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
+will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
+ -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
+