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- 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 - )
- Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- 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)
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- 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
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- 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
- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
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