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The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 November 1984
Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XCIV
I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ), Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816), The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.: Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.: Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.: Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
This is quite a three-pipe problem.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)

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