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- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer
- Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
- Mickey Friedman
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
- Hodding Carter
- CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- Peter De Vries
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