"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Unknown
"The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it..." Gene Spafford - Director, Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST), Purdue University
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." Rich Cook
"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." Carl Zwanzig
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
"Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things." Unknown
"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." Edward P. Tryon
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." John Andrew Holmes
"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it." Max Frisch
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." Kilgore Trout
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." Woody Allen
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Douglas Adams
"The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." William J. Broad
"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for." Fred Hoyle
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." Ray Bradbury
"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed." Christopher Morley
"I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge." Edward Chilton
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
"Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking." Dean Inge
"To have a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not a hallmark of skill, but to defeat the enemy without even fighting is." Sun Tzu
"We are either alone in the universe or we are not. Either case is overwhelming !" Arthur C. Clark
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." Anonymous
"Love is a moment of weakness that allows someone to hurt you more than you ever thought possible." Anonymous
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." Nicholas Murray Butler
"Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up." Voltaire
"If patterns of ones and zeros were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths ?" Thomas Pynchon
"Progress in physics comes by taking things apart; in computation by putting things together. We might have had an analytic science of computation, but as it worked out, we learned more from putting together thermostats and computers than we did from taking apart monkey brains and frog eyes." Danny Hillis
"...People seem to pursue money, most commonly. Some pursue a political agenda, some pursue fame. I pursue the blissful moment of coming up with an idea. That makes me very, very happy." T. Kalman, GFX designer
"A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu
"If one begins with the big questions of 'Who am I?' and 'Why am I here?', the understanding of the roads back in history seem as important as the ones forward, whether or not it pertains to the individual or collective, to the subject of love or the control of information." Loreena McKennitt
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." Aesop
"If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself." Lucius Seneca
"In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior." Francis Bacon
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness." Justice William O. Douglas
"The greatest of faults is to be couscious of none." Thomas Carlyle
"In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested." Ambrose Bierce
"Without shadow there's no sunshine." Unknown
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain." Pliny The Elder
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." Albert Einstein
"To be good is noble. But to show others how to be good, is nobler and less trouble." Mark Twain
"A friend is a present you give yourself." Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness." Sydney Smith
"There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves." George Bernard Shaw
"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long, and it always, at the end, came 'round to the same place again." Stephen King
