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- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
- Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
- Michael McClary
- A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
- If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
- Hans A. Bethe
- Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder
- Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
- Lichty and Wagner
- We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
- G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), Bleak House
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