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- If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
- Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
- Michael McClary
- You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
- Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
- In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
- unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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