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- Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan
- I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), as a small child
- Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
- 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.
- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
- Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
- Solomon Short
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
- I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
- I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
- Rita Rudner
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