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- As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
- M. Cartmill
- The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
- Henry Cate VII
- In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
- Jeffery F. Chamberlain
- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
- It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- 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
- If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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