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  <title>Commonplace Book</title>
  <editor>A.M. Kuchling</editor>
  <description>A personal collection of interesting quotations.</description>
  <quotation id="q1">
    <p>
      First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
    </p>
      <author>The Doctor</author>
      <source>In John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch's <cite>Meglos</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q2">
    <p>
      And so it begins.
    </p>
      <source>Kosh, in J. Michael Straczynski's <cite>Babylon 5</cite>: "Chrysalis"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q3">
    <p>
      The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded
as a bad move.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q4" date="1952">
    <p>
      A book of quotations... can never be complete.
    </p>
      <author>Robert M. Hamilton</author>
      <source>Preface, <cite>Canadian Quotations and Phrases: Literary and Historical</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q5">
    <p>
      Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether
the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his
thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against
truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but
perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle.
    </p>
      <author>Robert W. Shaunon</author>
      <source>"Misquotation," <cite>The Canadian Magazine</cite>, October 1898</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q6">
    <p>
      Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_Huxley">T.H. Huxley</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q7" date="1958">
    <p>
      In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it
should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw
from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that
tyranny never fails to generate them.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pierre_Trudeau">Pierre Elliott Trudeau</author>
      <source>"When the People Are in Power"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q8" date="2002">
    <p>
      "I cannot endure doing nothing," [Charles Darwin] told Jenyns in
1877. It was almost as if he feared the moment when his mind might be
empty, when his work might be done; and to stave off this abyss
constantly found old and new topics to pursue. If not dread of
idleness, then dread of decrepitude. He often said that his work made
him feel alive, helped his mind sing, was the one thing that blotted
out his cares. Although he called himself "a kind of machine for
grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts," the
truth was he only felt himself when immersed in some demanding new
project.
    </p>
      <author
	  rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Janet_Browne">Janet Browne</author>
      <source>In <cite>Charles Darwin: The Power of Place</cite> (2002).</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q9">
    <p>
      He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/M._C._Escher">M.C. Escher</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q10" date="1926">
    <p>
      The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all its contents.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._P._Lovecraft">H.P. Lovecraft</author>
      <source>"The Call of Cthulhu"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q11">
    <p>
      He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he
would have resented it extremely. He would have said that what he did
was done entirely for the good of the country. But he was a man who
had always been accustomed to consider himself first and foremost,
believing that whatever he wanted was sure to be right, and therefore
he ought to have it. So he tried to get it, and got it too, as people
like him very often do. Whether they enjoy it when they have it is
another question.
    </p>
      <author>Dinah Craik</author>
      <source><cite>The Little Lame Prince</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q12">
    <p>
      To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is
to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving
your theory.
    </p>
      <author>John A. Wheeler</author>
  </quotation>
    <quotation date="1936-03"><p>The eternal mystery of the world is its
  comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
</p>    <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
<source>From "Physics and Reality", in <cite>Franklin Institute Journal</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q13">
    <p>
      A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
    </p>
      <author>George Wald</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q14" date="2001">
    <p>
      "Non-fiction", on the other hand, declares itself to be the
carrier of fact, an expression of reality, and thus of truth. Why then
does most fact-based work have a remarkably short shelf life? The
reply might be that additional facts come along. That we are learning
all the time. In that case, it was never an expression of reality or
truth. And even if the facts are overtaken, the arguments built upon
them should not date with such terrifying rapidity. Decade-old serious
"non-fiction" often seems arcane, irrelevant. The written style itself
seems to become old-fashioned. Two-centuries-old decent "fiction" on
the other hand can easily remain fresh.
    </p>
      <author>John Ralston Saul</author>
      <source><cite>On Equilibrium</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q15">
    <p>
      Government, today, is growing too strong to be safe. There are
no longer any citizens in the world; there are only subjects. They
work day in and day out for their masters; they are bound to die for
their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get
less and less.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q16" date="1916-03-18">
    <p>
      One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate
you so.
    </p>
      <author>Bob Edwards</author>
      <source>The Calgary Eyeopener, March 18, 1916</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q17">
    <p>
      <em>ABROAD</em>, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a
Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to
make others miserable.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ambrose_Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</author>
      <source><cite>The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q18">
    <p>
      Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble
doing it.
    </p>
      <author>Tallulah Bankhead</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q19">
    <p>
      It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in
himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's
work. Take care of what you are doing. Take care.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/George_Bernard_Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</author>
      <source><cite>Candida</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q20">
    <p>
      It is ordinary for us to poison rivers also; yea and the very
elements whereof the world doth stand, are by us infected: for even
the air itself, wherein and whereby all things should live, we corrupt
to their mischief and destruction.
    </p>
      <author>Pliny the Elder</author>
      <source>The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q21">
    <p>
      I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical
and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great
design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that
either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that
has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming -- or buying
software -- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and
misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage
can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification,
as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.
    </p>
      <author>Ted Nelson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q22">
    <p>
      Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a
solution.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edward_Teller">Edward Teller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q23">
    <p>
      Monty Python's usual schoolboy humour is here let loose on a
period of history appropriately familiar to every schoolboy in the
West, and a faith which could be shaken by such good-humoured ribaldry
would be a very precarious faith indeed.
    </p>
      <author>The British Board Of Film Censors</author>
      <source>In their report on <cite>Life of Brian</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q24">
    <p>
      If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school
metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract
reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any
experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No.
Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry
and illusion.
    </p>
      <author>David Hume</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q25">
    <p>
      Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other
field.
    </p>
      <author>Erik Naggum</author>
      <source>In <cite>gnu.misc.discuss</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q26">
    <p>
      You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because
I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible,
which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.
    </p>
      <author>S.J. Perelman</author>
      <source>"Captain Future, Block That Kick!"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q27">
    <p>
      The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But
the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Niels_Bohr">Niels Bohr</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q28">
    <p>
      Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of
a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic
writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who
felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not
customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment
is total.
    </p>
      <author>Forsyth and Rada</author>
      <source><cite>Machine Learning</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q29">
    <p>
      Yes, Agassiz <em>does</em> recommend authors to eat fish,
because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But
I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat -- at
least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is
about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales
would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but
simply good middling-sized whales.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q30">
    <p>
      We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that
formula secret.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
      <source><cite>Dear Boullée</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q31" date="1960">
    <p>
      We have just reached the outer fringes of the Solar System. Can
any sane man possibly argue that we should stop there?
    </p>
      <author>Hugh MacLennan</author>
      <source>"Remembrance Day, 2010 A.D.", in <cite>Scotchman's Return and Other Essays</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q32">
    <p>
      I said I <em>liked</em> being half-educated; you were so much
more <em>surprised</em> at everything when you were ignorant.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gerald_Durrell">Gerald Durrell</author>
      <source><cite>My Family and Other Animals</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q33">
    <p>
      My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q34">
    <p>
      Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth
it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
    </p>
      <author>Kernighan and Plauger</author>
      <source><cite>The Elements of Programming Style</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q35" date="1974">
    <p>
      The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from
sticking to the matter at hand.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lewis_Thomas">Lewis Thomas</author>
      <source>"Information", in <cite>The Lives of a Cell</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q36" date="1980">
    <p>
      There is more. There is much more. It all adds up to a great
deal less.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
      <source>Reviewing <cite>Heaven's Gate</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q37">
    <p>
      It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God --
but to create him.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur C. Clarke</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q38">
    <p>
      I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind
which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I
don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog
Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and
froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.
    </p>
      <author>Gerald Kersh</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q39">
    <p>
      Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and
are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in
arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds
of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dwight_D._Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q40">
    <p>
      The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner
you will be able to correct them.
    </p>
      <author>Kimon Nicolaides</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q41" date="1392">
    <p>
      Scientia sine arte nihil est; ars sine scientia nihil est.
    </p>
      <author>Jean Vignot</author>
    <note>
      <p>
        Supposedly said regarding the Gothic cathedral of Milan.
      </p>
      <p>
        A Google search finds this attribution to be the only one
mentioned on the web, but none of the attributions gives more details
(such as a source work) and almost all have the date as 1392. It may
be a folk attribution.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q42" date="1959">
    <p>
      No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist":
there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian
and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all
things properly."
    </p>
      <author>Edmund Carpenter</author>
      <source><cite>Eskimo</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q43" date="1917">
    <p>
      Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who
did not discover it.
    </p>
    <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whitehead</author>
     <source>In <cite>The Organisation of Thought</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q44">
    <p>
      I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait
till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a
full and clear light.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Newton">Isaac Newton</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q45" date="1980">
    <p>
      The more I have studied him, the more Newton has receded from
me. It has been my privilege at various times to know a number of
brilliant men, men whom I acknowledge without hesitation to be my
intellectual superiors. I have never, however, met one against whom I
was unwilling to measure myself, so that it seemed reasonable to say
that I was half as able as the person in question, or a third or a
fourth, but in every case a finite fraction. The end result of my
study of Newton has served to convince me that with him there is no
measure. He has become for me wholly other, one of the tiny handful of
supreme geniuses who have shaped the categories of the human
intellect, a man not finally reducible to the criteria by which we
comprehend our fellow beings.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Westfall</author>
      <source><cite>Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton</cite></source>
    <note>
      <p>
        Originally cited in <cite>The Borderlands of Science</cite>,
by Michael Shermer.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q46">
    <p>
      We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the
stars.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oscar_Wilde">Oscar Wilde</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q47">
    <p>
      Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools
before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her
shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for
the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps
on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even
as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/George_Bernard_Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</author>
      <source><cite>Caesar and Cleopatra</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q48">
    <p>
      My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but
when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hermann_Weyl">Hermann Weyl</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q49" date="1967">
    <p>
      "There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my
experience there is little else.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>Marchbanks' Almanac</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q50">
    <p>
      Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more
important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial.
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the
mountain-tops where she is found.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</author>
      <source>"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q51">
    <p>
      We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is
overwhelming.
    </p>
      <author>Wernher Von Braun</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q52">
    <p>
      Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of
every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means,
render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's -- but this does not
necessarily include everything that he says is his.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Denis_Johnston">Denis Johnston</author>
      <source><cite>The Brazen Horn</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q53">
    <p>
      Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while
Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
    </p>
      <author>J. Bartlett Brebner</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q54">
    <p>
      You could augment an earwig to the point where it understood
nuclear physics, but it would still be a very stupid thing to do!
    </p>
      <author>The Doctor</author>
      <source>In Robert Holmes' <cite>The Two Doctors</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q55">
    <p>
      I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, / I
understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, / About
binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news--- / With many
cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
    </p>
      <author>Gilbert and Sullivan</author>
      <source><cite>The Pirates of Penzance</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q56">
    <p>
      Should I not have changed either the day for carrying out my
scheme, or the scheme itself -- but preferably only the day?
    </p>
      <author>Ovid</author>
      <source><cite>The Metamorphoses</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q57">
    <p>
      The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the
human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to
be put in this unique relation to its maker?... Christians are like a
council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill
croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."
    </p>
      <author>Julian the Apostate</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q58">
    <p>
      Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free
and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not
adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.
    </p>
      <author>Murray Bookchin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q59">
    <p>
      If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a
conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the
prevailing standard of nonconformity.
    </p>
      <author>Bill Vaughan</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q60">
    <p>
      A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Woodrow_Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q61">
    <p>
      It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there
are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good
health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to
desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the
profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is
sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting
to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is
somehow redundant.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clive_Barker">Clive Barker</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q62">
    <p>
      Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a
year ago.
    </p>
      <author>Bernard Berenson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q63">
    <p>
      A person who lacks the means, within himself, to live a good and
happy life will find any period of his existence wearisome.
    </p>
      <author>Cicero</author>
      <source>"On Old Age"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q64">
    <p>
      The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the
constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility
does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its
mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off
the slate.
    </p>
      <author>John Simon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q65" date="1969">
    <p>
      Problems worthy of attack / prove their worth by hitting back.
    </p>
      <author>Piet Hein</author>
      <source>"Problems", in <cite>Grooks 1</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q66">
    <p>
      Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite.
This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can
never remember where they have left things.
    </p>
      <author>Woody Allen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q67">
    <p>
      Time is like a river, flowing endlessly through the universe.
And if you poled your flatboat in that river, you might fight your way
against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the
flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before
toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with
the detritus of empty hours, wasted minutes, years of repetition and
time that has been killed.
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q68">
    <p>
      They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they
can see nothing but sea.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Francis_Bacon">Sir Francis Bacon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q69">
    <p>
      An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he
has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction
with our miserable social environment.
    </p>
      <author>Anthony Standen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q70">
    <p>
      The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in
the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive... No man is so wise
but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of
thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be
capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and
credulity.
    </p>
      <author>Charles Mackay</author>
      <source><cite>Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q71" date="1937">
    <p>
      For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there
should be such a thing as a superhuman Law, it is administered with
sub-human inefficiency.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Eric_Ambler">Eric Ambler</author>
      <source><cite>A Coffin for Dimitrios</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q72">
    <p>
      Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
    </p>
      <author>Groucho Marx</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q73">
    <p>
      Maybe I am getting too young for this sort of thing.
    </p>
      <author>The Doctor</author>
      <source>In David Agnew's <cite>The Invasion of Time</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q74" date="1990">
    <p>
      Cities do not change over the centuries. They represent the
aspirations of particular men and women to lead a common life; as a
result their atmosphere, their tone, remain the same. Those people
whose relations are founded principally upon commerce and upon the
ferocious claims of domestic privacy will construct a city as dark and
as ugly as London was. And is. Those people who wish to lead agreeable
lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city
as beautiful and as elegant as Paris.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Ackroyd">Peter Ackroyd</author>
      <source><cite>Dickens</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q75">
    <p>
      The words <foreign>figure</foreign> and
<foreign>fictitious</foreign> both derive from the same Latin root
<foreign>fingere</foreign>. Beware!
    </p>
      <author>M.J. Moroney</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q76">
    <p>
      The average man who does not know what to do with his life,
wants another one which will last forever.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anatole_France">Anatole France</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q77" date="1966">
    <p>
      A print addict is a man who reads in elevators. People
occasionally look at me curiously when they see me standing there,
reading a paragraph or two as the elevator goes up. To me, it's
curious that there are people who do not read in elevators. What can
they be thinking about?
    </p>
      <author>Robert Fulford</author>
      <source>"The Pastimes of a Print Addict"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q78">
    <p>
      You know what misery I went through there, listening to lawyers
day and night. If you'd had experience of them yourself, as brave as
you think you are, you'd have preferred to clean out the Augean
stables...
    </p>
      <author>Seneca</author>
      <source><cite>The Apocolocyntosis</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q79">
    <p>
      Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and
detective stories.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur C. Clarke</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q80">
    <p>
      The work of Leslie is particularly confusing. The mischievous
muse of thermodynamics made him inweave his simple statements about
heat in a horrid mess of difficult, irrelevant, and unexplained
calculations. His and other early theories of heat make much of
entities as imperceptible as voids and vortices or, for that matter,
angels. They belong not to physics but to what would now be regarded
as speculative philosophy.
    </p>
      <author>Clifford Truesdell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q81">
    <p>
      Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on
the wheels of Chance.
    </p>
      <author>Juvenal</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q82">
    <p>
      Methusalem might be half an hour in telling what o'clock it was:
but as for us postdiluvians, we ought to do everything in haste; and
in our speeches, as well as actions, remember that our time is short.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Richard Steele</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q83">
    <p>
      Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need
more statesmen.
    </p>
      <author>Bob Edwards (attributed)</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q84">
    <p>
      Stockbroker (John Cleese): Well, speaking as member of the Stock
Exchange I would suck their brains out with a straw, sell the widows
and orphans and go into South American Zinc.
    </p>
      <source>Monty Python: "Sex and Violence"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q85">
    <p>
      Tetsuo's kind see only the power of Western scientific
reductionism. They wish to combine it with our discipline, our
traditional methods of competitive conformity. With this I
fundamentally disagree. What the West really has to offer -- the only
thing it has to offer, my child -- is honesty. Somehow, in the midst
of their horrid history, the best among the <foreign>gaijin</foreign>
learned a wonderful lesson. They learned to distrust themselves, to
doubt even what they were taught to believe or what their egos make
them yearn to see. To know that even truth must be scrutinized, it was
a great discovery, almost as great as the treasure we of the East have
to offer them in return, the gift of harmony.
    </p>
      <author>David Brin</author>
      <source>"Dr. Pak's Preschool"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q86">
    <p>
      Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to
the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is
to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"The Secret Life of James Thurber", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q87">
    <p>
      Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard
to swallow.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur Stringer</author>
      <source><cite>The Silver Poppy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q88" date="1997">
    <p>
      There is something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that's
unbearably sad. Like most unbearably sad things, it seems incredibly
elusive and complex in its causes and simple in its effect: on board
the <foreign>Nadir</foreign> -- especially at night, when all the
ship's structured fun and reassurances and gaiety-noise ceased -- I
felt despair. The word's overused and banalified now,
<em>despair</em>, but it's a serious word, and I'm using it seriously.
For me it denotes a simple admixture -- a weird yearning for death
combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that
presents as a fear of death. It's maybe close to what people call
dread or angst. But it's not these things, quite. It's more like
wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming
aware that I'm small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt
at all to die. It's wanting to jump overboard.
    </p>
      <author>David Foster Wallace</author>
      <source>"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", in <cite>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q89">
    <p>
      ... many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of
things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts
departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And
all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities
and false illusions...
    </p>
      <author>Pliny the Elder</author>
      <source>The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q90">
    <p>
      In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree
that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose
that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not
merit equal time in physics classrooms.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Jay_Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q91">
    <p>
      I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly
prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide
open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but
the evidence must be sane and conclusive.
    </p>
      <author>Harry Houdini</author>
      <source><cite>Houdini on Magic</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q92">
    <p>
      I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I
should have written more books.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur Schlesinger Jr.</author>
      <source>Quoted in the <cite>Washington Post</cite>, Nov 28 2000</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q93">
    <p>
      The effects which follow too constant and intense a
concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not
<em>for</em> God in themselves, but <em>against</em> the devil in
others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either
as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the
crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however
excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest
itself.
    </p>
      <author>Aldous Huxley</author>
      <source><cite>The Devils of Loudun</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q94">
    <p>
      And that inverted bowl they call the Sky, / Whereunder crawling
coop'd we live and die, / Lift not your hand to It for help -- for It
/ As impotently moves as you or I.
    </p>
      <author>Omar Khayyam</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q95">
    <p>
      All this progress is marvelous... now if only it would stop!
    </p>
      <author>Allan Lamport</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q96">
    <p>
      From the horridness of this crime, I do conclude that, of all
others, it requires the clearest relevancy and most convincing
probature; and I condemn, next to the witches themselves, those cruel
and too forward judges who burn persons by thousands as guilty of this
crime.
    </p>
      <author>Sir George Mackenzie</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q97">
    <p>
      So then, these are the foundations, as they call them, of all
mixt bodies, and of all wonderful operations: and whatsoever
experiments they proved, the causes hereof rested (as they supposed)
and were to be found in the Elements and their qualities.
    </p>
      <author>Giambattista Della Porta</author>
      <source><cite>Natural Magick</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q98">
    <p>
      Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these
are the conditions, now what happens next?
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Feynman">Richard P. Feynman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q99">
    <p>
      You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can
write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
    </p>
      <author>Alan J. Perlis</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q100">
    <p>
      Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He
fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold
exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no
doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the
brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a
hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their
own.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q101">
    <p>
      Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
    </p>
      <author>Henry Ward Beecher</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q102">
    <p>
      Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put
competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules
of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined
specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential
to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Benoît_Mandelbrot">Benoit Mandelbrot</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q103">
    <p>
      The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that
still carries any reward.
    </p>
      <author>John Maynard Keynes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q104">
    <p>
      A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark,
"You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting
incest and folk dancing."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arnold_Bax">Sir Arnold Bax</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q105">
    <p>
      Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering
who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try
to get along without it for a week.
    </p>
      <author>Eric Temple Bell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q106">
    <p>
      My early and invincible love of reading, which I would not
exchange for the treasures of India...
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q107">
    <p>
      The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a
cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our
extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the
heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be
none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in
the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.
    </p>
      <author>Stanley Kubrick</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q108">
    <p>
      ... nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the
ocean level wouldn't cure.
    </p>
      <author>Ross Macdonald</author>
      <source><cite>The Drowning Pool</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q109">
    <p>
      Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also
reaches to the stars.
    </p>
      <author>Herbert Westren Turnbull</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q110">
    <p>
      Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the
Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively,
intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection...
nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's
dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...
    </p>
      <author>Berke Breathed</author>
      <source><cite>Bloom Country Babylon</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q111">
    <p>
      So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels
in praise of intelligence.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bertrand_Russell">Bertrand Russell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q112">
    <p>
      Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with
reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with
them until he had stood them on their heads.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/J._M._Barrie">J.M. Barrie</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q113">
    <p>
      What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by
death.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Barry">Dave Barry</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q114">
    <p>
      I want to be young and wild, and then I want to be middle-aged
and rich, and then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending
that I'm deaf.
    </p>
      <source><cite>Blackadder III</cite>: "Nob and Nobility"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q115">
    <p>
      We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
    </p>
      <author>Bishop Berkeley</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q116">
    <p>
      Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field
ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle...
chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make
the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they
are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the
little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome
<em>insects</em> of the hour.
    </p>
      <author>Edmund Burke</author>
      <source><cite>Reflections on the Revolution in France</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q117">
    <p>
      Life's too short for chess.
    </p>
      <author>H.J. Byron</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q118">
    <p>
      Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q119">
    <p>
      Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat
things divine with marked respect -- don't have anything to do with
them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play
you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as
an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend
worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And,
finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are,
not as they ought to be.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ambrose_Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q120" date="1930-12-12">
    <p>
      Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and
pure and very dead.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sinclair_Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</author>
      <source>In his Nobel Prize Address</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q121">
    <p>
      As Palamides hunted the Questing Beast, she hunted the Figure of
Speech. She hunted it through the clangorous halls of Shakespeare and
through the green forests of Scott.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"Here Lies Miss Groby", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q122" date="1979">
    <p>
      All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of
computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own
structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of
death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Church's Undecidability Theorem,
Turing's Halting Theorem, Tarski's Truth Theorem -- all have the
flavor of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that "To seek
self-knowledge is to embark on a journey which... will always be
incomplete, cannot be charted on any map, will never halt, cannot be
described."
    </p>
      <author>Douglas R. Hofstadter</author>
      <source><cite>Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q123" date="1964">
    <p>
      What is the difference between unethical and ethical
advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the
public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
    </p>
      <author>Vilhjalmur Stefansson</author>
      <source><cite>Discovery</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q124">
    <p>
      [Quoting from TV Guide] "As a result, TV horror may be returning
to its roots -- when psychological terror and subtlety had more impact
than an ax to the head." There are, of course, no such roots, in
television or anywhere else. The horrid tradition began in <cite>The
Castle of Otranto</cite>, with a boy crushed under a gigantic helmet
-- nothing subtle or psychological about <em>that</em>.
    </p>
      <author>Walter Kendrick</author>
      <source><cite>The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years Of Scary Entertainment</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q125">
    <p>
      When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest
wall to bang my head against.
    </p>
      <author>S.T. Joshi</author>
      <source>"Arthur Machen: The Mystery of the Universe" in <cite>The Weird Tale</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q126">
    <p>
      There is a difference between art and life and that difference
is readability.
    </p>
      <author>Marian Engel</author>
      <source>In the <cite>Toronto Globe and Mail</cite>, Dec. 28, 1974</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q127">
    <p>
      Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so
much smoke there's smoke.
    </p>
      <author>John A. Wheeler</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q128">
    <p>
      Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of
experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an
essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how
these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of
disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately
ignored.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Ronald A. Fisher</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q129" date="1936-03">
    <p>
      The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ...
The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
      <source>"Physics and Reality", <cite>Franklin Institute Journal</cite> March 1936</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q130">
    <p>
      We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.
    </p>
      <author>George Bernard Shaw</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q131">
    <p>
      It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of
theories to suit facts.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q132">
    <p>
      By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is
possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a
scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</author>
      <source>"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q133">
    <p>
      It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the
best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something
that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something
that happens in nature. It's startling every time it occurs. One is
surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realized
in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great,
great joy.
    </p>
      <author>Leo Kadanoff</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q134">
    <p>
      I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining
at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    </p>
      <author>Frank Moore Colby</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q135">
    <p>
      Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal
worse.
    </p>
      <author>Miguel De Cervantes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q136">
    <p>
      He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
    </p>
      <author>Edmund Burke</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q137">
    <p>
      There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending
the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters
clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed
insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to
follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts
paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete
classical entities -- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved
geometry -- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real,
inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
    </p>
      <author>Gregory Benford</author>
      <source><cite>Timescape</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q138">
    <p>
      I could never sleep my way to the top / 'Cause my alarm clock
always wakes me right up.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/They_Might_Be_Giants">They Might Be Giants</author>
      <source>"Hey, Mr DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q139">
    <p>
      One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan. One grows tired of
almost everything, Castellan, except power.
    </p>
      <author>The Doctor</author>
      <source>In David Agnew's <cite>The Invasion of Time</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q140" date="1974">
    <p>
      No matter how hard you try, there is always going to be someone
more underground than you.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Fulford</author>
      <source>"My Life Underground", in <cite>Marshall Delaney at the Movies</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q141">
    <p>
      Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit
Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
    </p>
      <author>Pliny the Elder</author>
      <source>The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q142">
    <p>
      Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
    </p>
      <author>Rudyard Kipling</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q143">
    <p>
      Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are
things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of
your trade you want to understand them.
    </p>
      <author>Mitchell Feigenbaum</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q144">
    <p>
      It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of
discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than
in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the
origin, though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely, printing,
gunpowder and the magnet [i.e. Mariner's Needle]. For these three have
changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q145" date="2005-12-31">
    <p>
      For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the
dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't
like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand
them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always
looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls,
trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find
that often leads you into some dark places.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Cronenberg">David Cronenberg</author>
      <source>In a <cite>Globe &amp; Mail</cite> interview</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q146">
    <p>
      And if you give us any more trouble I shall visit you in the
small hours and put a bat up your nightdress.
    </p>
      <author>Basil Fawlty</author>
      <source>"Mrs. Richards"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q147">
    <p>
      Predicting the future, as we all know, is risky. Predicting the
evolution of new technology is downright hazardous.
    </p>
      <author>Leon Cooper</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q148">
    <p>
      Child pornography -- I never heard of it as a problem five years
ago, but now it's brought up constantly. I think it's the new
Red-baiting. The people in Burma don't understand how it is that we
are focusing our whole crypto policy on catching child pornographers.
If you think that cryptography is good for society you have to
apologize and say that you are against child pornography... The fact
that I even have to say that is an indication of how effective this
Red-baiting is... I think that we can't let our civil liberties for
the society at large be determined by government policy towards a tiny
segment of the criminal population.
    </p>
      <author>Philip Zimmermann</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q149">
    <p>
      An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a
master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming
likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of
real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill
in their use.
    </p>
      <author>Robert L. Kruse</author>
      <source><cite>Data Structures and Program Design</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q150">
    <p>
      1) A strong belief is more important than a few facts.
    </p>
    <p>
      2) The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.
    </p>
    <p>
      3) The fewer the facts, the more people killed.
    </p>
      <author>Milton Rothman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q151">
    <p>
      A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is
innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that
no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edward_Teller">Edward Teller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q152" date="1975">
    <p>
      Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining,
physically exhausting, and short.
    </p>
      <author>Peter C. Newman</author>
      <source><cite>The Canadian Establishment</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q153">
    <p>
      My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species.
Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
    </p>
      <author>Ralph Abraham</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q154" date="1859">
    <p>
      There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,
having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or
into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according
to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms
most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Darwin">Charles Darwin</author>
      <source><cite>The Origin of Species</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q155">
    <p>
      All things are difficult before they are easy.
    </p>
      <author>Thomas Fuller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q156" date="1961">
    <p>
      Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans
lost it.
    </p>
      <author>Eric Nicol</author>
      <source><cite>Say Uncle</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q157">
    <p>
      It is strange that we know so little about the properties of
numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom
only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and
prescribed their behaviour, we are hard pressed to perceive the
implications of our formulas.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_R._Newman">James R. Newman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q158">
    <p>
      And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or
thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to
bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a
hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and
tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and
covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q159">
    <p>
      Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
    </p>
      <author>Alan Turing</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q160" date="1950">
    <p>
      Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us
consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
    </p>
      <author>Pierre Trudeau</author>
      <source>"Politique fonctionnelle"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q161">
    <p>
      The Cross is a gibbet -- rather an odd thing to make use of as a
talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it,
instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried
whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Denis_Johnston">Denis Johnston</author>
      <source><cite>The Brazen Horn</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q162">
    <p>
      Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, / But Genius
must be born; and can never be taught.
    </p>
      <author>John Congreve</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q163">
    <p>
      The more efficient computers become at inducing new knowledge,
the more widely that knowledge will be applied, even in matters of
life and death. It is essential that such knowledge be open to
inspection. This means that designers of learning systems have a
public duty to use comprehensible description languages -- even if
that means sacrificing performance. Otherwise we run the risk of
generating truly "unknowable knowledge."
    </p>
      <author>Richard Forsyth</author>
      <source>"Machine Learning for Expert Systems"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q164">
    <p>
      Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but
things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for
beginning to be something different from what one was before, while
"dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into
that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.
    </p>
      <author>Ovid</author>
      <source><cite>The Metamorphoses</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q165">
    <p>
      You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can
paint it.
    </p>
      <author>Charles Haddon Spurgeon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q166">
    <p>
      Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed
up.
    </p>
      <author>Farley Mowat</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q167">
    <p>
      "Doctor, we did good, didn't we?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Perhaps. Time will tell. Always does."
    </p>
      <author>Ace and the Doctor</author>
      <source>In Ben Aaronovitch's <cite>Remembrance of the Daleks</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q168">
    <p>
      There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and
those who hate them.
    </p>
      <author>Emile Chartier</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q169">
    <p>
      The true poet and the true scientist are not estranged. They go
forth into nature like two friends. Behold them strolling through the
summer fields and woods. The younger of the two is much the more
active and inquiring; he is ever and anon stepping aside to examine
some object more minutely, plucking a flower, treasuring a shell,
pursuing a bird, watching a butterfly; now he turns over a stone,
peers into the marshes, chips off a fragment of rock, and everywhere
seems intent on some special and particular knowledge of the things
about him. The elder man has more an air of leisurely contemplation
and enjoyment, is less curious about special objects and features, and
more desirous of putting himself in harmony with the spirit of the
whole. But when his younger companion has any fresh and characteristic
bit of information to impart to him, how attentively he listens, how
sure and discriminating is his appreciation! The interests of the two
in the universe are widely different, yet in no true sense are they
hostile or mutually destructive.
    </p>
      <author>John Burroughs</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q170">
    <p>
      Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
    </p>
      <author>Bill Press</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q171">
    <p>
      I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.
    </p>
      <author>Abraham Rotstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q172">
    <p>
      Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.
    </p>
      <author>Michael Bywater, writing as Bargepole</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q173">
    <p>
      I have seen the future and it doesn't work.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Fulford</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q174">
    <p>
      ... one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and
science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and
hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting
desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal
life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q175">
    <p>
      Accountant (Graham Chapman): Oh well, I'm a chartered
accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest.
    </p>
      <author></author>
      <source>Monty Python: "Sex and Violence"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q176">
    <p>
      The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the
last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of
life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity
and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
    </p>
      <author>David Rogers</author>
      <source>"Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q177">
    <p>
      Planet Bog -- Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking
atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much
like Earth.
    </p>
      <author>Bill Watterson</author>
      <source><cite>The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q178">
    <p>
      Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
    </p>
      <author>Dalton Camp</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q179">
    <p>
      I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of
thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive
epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after
him... But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of
Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite
essential to the play, she is very charming -- and a little mad.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whitehead</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q180" date="1963-06">
    <p>
      Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be
thought half as good... luckily, it's not difficult.
    </p>
      <author>Charlotte Whitton</author>
      <source>In <cite>Canada Month</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q181">
    <p>
      ... no man of genuinely superior intelligence has even been an
actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be
lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into
bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately
destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
      <source>"The Allied Arts"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q182">
    <p>
      Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in
order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
    </p>
      <author>Sydney Smith</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q183">
    <p>
      K is for KENGHIS KHAN. <em>He</em> was a very <em>nice</em>
person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that,
somewhere.
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
      <source>"From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q184">
    <p>
      . . . all men and women, in couples or otherwise, who fall into
exclusive habits of self-indulgence, and forget their natural sympathy
and close connection with everybody and everything in the world around
them, not only neglect the first duty of life, but, by a happy
retributive justice, deprive themselves of its truest and best
enjoyment.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</author>
      <source><cite>Sketches of Young Couples</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q185">
    <p>
      I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.
    </p>
      <author>Stephen Wolfram</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q186">
    <p>
      It is unnecessary to understand electromagnetic theory before
wiring a lamp or to study physics in order to repair a pump. We count
on our fingers and give no heed to the proliferating implications of
the act.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_R._Newman">James R. Newman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q187">
    <p>
      [He]... was a letter writer of the type that is now completely
extinct. His circle of correspondents was perhaps no larger but it was
easily more bewildered than that of any other American of his
generation...
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>From "The Letters of James Thurber", an introduction to <cite>The Selected Letters of James Thurber</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q188">
    <p>
      In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who
sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum
theory he sets out with a sieve.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Arthur Eddington</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q189">
    <p>
      I'm lost, but I'm making record time.
    </p>
      <author>Allan Lamport</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q190">
    <p>
      <em>Cartesian</em>, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous
philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, <foreign>Cogito ergo
sum</foreign>... The dictum might be improved, however, thus:
<foreign>Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum</foreign> -- "I think that I
think, therefore I think that I am"; as close an approach to certainty
as any philosopher has yet made.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ambrose_Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</author>
      <source><cite>The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q191">
    <p>
      Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world
in jeopardy.
    </p>
      <author>John Dewey</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q192">
    <p>
      Paper has a genius for multiplication that cannot be equalled
anywhere else in nature.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hugh_Keenleyside">Hugh L. Keenleyside</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q193">
    <p>
      The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is
especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and
scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic
experience much like composing poetry or music.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Donald Knuth">Donald E. Knuth</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q194">
    <p>
      Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For
there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and
thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well
ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the
ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Thomas Browne</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q195">
    <p>
      Q. "Do you listen to your own music?"
    </p>
    <p>
      A. "No ... It was bad enough having to play the shit without
having to listen to it."
    </p>
      <author>John Zorn</author>
    <note>
      <p>
        In an interview in <cite>Talking Music</cite>, by William
Duckworth.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q196">
    <p>
      I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence.
I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course.
    </p>
      <source>Baldrick, in <cite>Blackadder III</cite>: "Sense and Senility"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q197" date="1965">
    <p>
      Someone once said that the two most important things in
developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this
is so; I'd rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look
for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes
regardless of what others might say or think.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Murray_Schafer">R. Murray Schafer</author>
      <source><cite>The Composer in the Classroom</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q198">
    <p>
      The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see
that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to
work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the
water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea.
It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.
    </p>
      <author>Llewelyn Powys</author>
      <source><cite>The Pathetic Fallacy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q199">
    <p>
      My house is small, but you are learned men / And by your
arguments can make a place / Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
    </p>
      <author>Chaucer</author>
      <source>The Reeve's Tale, in <cite>The Canterbury Tales</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q200">
    <p>
      America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is
determined to set a speed record getting there.
    </p>
      <author>Laurence J. Peter</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q201" date="2009">
    <p>
      This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to
flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit, one
whose source and object of greatest intensity is yourself. To behave
as if you have everything firmly under control even when you have just
sailed your boat over the falls. "To keep your head," wrote Rudyard
Kipling in his classic poem "If", which articulated the code of
high-Victorian masculinity in whose fragmentary shadow American men
still come of age, "when all about you are losing theirs"; but in
reality, the trick of being a man is to give the appearance of keeping
your head when, deep inside, the truest part of you is crying out, Oh,
shit!
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michael_Chabon">Michael Chabon</author>
      <source>From "Faking It", in <cite>Manhood for Amateurs</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q202">
    <p>
      There's certainly a growing atmosphere of academic
totalitarianism. It shows up in things like the attacks on the
legitimacy of the more eclectic and interdisciplinary fields, or in
the increasing constraints on student choice.
    </p>
      <author>Tom Naylor</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q203">
    <p>
      Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q204">
    <p>
      We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more
extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the
denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed
from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Jay_Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</author>
      <source><cite>The Mismeasure of Man</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q205">
    <p>
      Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
    </p>
      <author>Marie Curie</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q206">
    <p>
      Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits
in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge
thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and
experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine
of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the
United Kingdom.
    </p>
      <author>William Thorsell</author>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="1998-11-30"><p>
  We live in, have lived through, a strange time.  I know this because
  when I was a child, the flow of forgetting was relatively unimpeded.
  I know this because the dead were less of a constant presence, then.
  Because there was once no Rewind button.  Because the soldiers dying
  in the Somme were black and white, and did not run as the living run.
  Because the world's attic was still untidy.  Because there were old men
  in the mountain valleys of my Virginia childhood who remembered a time
  before recorded music.
  </p><p>
  When we turn on the radio in a New York hotel room and hear Elvis
  singing "Heartbreak Hotel", we are seldom struck by the peculiarity
  of our situation: that a dead man sings.
</p><author>William Gibson</author>
<source>From "Dead Man Sings", included in
  <cite>Distrust That Particular Flavor</cite> (2012)</source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q207">
    <p>
      You have perhaps heard the story of the four students --
British, French, American, Canadian -- who were asked to write an
essay on elephants. The British student entitled his essay "Elephants
and the Empire." The French student called his "Love and the
Elephant." The title of the American student's essay was "Bigger and
Better Elephants," and the Canadian student called his "Elephants: A
Federal or Provincial Responsibility?"
    </p>
      <author>Robert H. Winters</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q208">
    <p>
      The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to
interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical
construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations,
describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical
construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
    </p>
      <author>John Von Neumann</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q209" date="1986">
    <p>
      I remember those years when we shared the joy of love, / that
tiny little pond, hidden in the courtyard! / We were close and
intimate, we never were apart, / meeting beneath flowers, / meeting
beneath willows -- / a song sung at a feast among curtains of gold!
    </p>
    <p>
      But in a moment happiness turned to desolation; / frightening
off the mandarin ducks, / how cruel the wind-blown waves! / As I
ponder I realize there's no one I can blame -- / she was wrong, / I
was wrong, / for all our good relationship bad feelings did arise.
    </p>
      <author>Yang Shen</author>
      <source>Translated by Jonathan Chaves in <cite>The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q210">
    <p>
      The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, / And all that beauty,
all that wealth e'er gave, / Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: / The
paths of glory lead but to the grave.
    </p>
      <author>Thomas Gray</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q211">
    <p>
      God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Dirac</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q212">
    <p>
      Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those
of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or
people might think we're stupid.
    </p>
      <author>Jules Feiffer</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q213">
    <p>
      Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
    </p>
      <author>George Iles</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q214">
    <p>
      What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves
to science?... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a
man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for
you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
    </p>
      <author>Ivan Pavlov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q215" date="1995-08-29">
    <p>
      To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    </p>
      <author>Bernard Baruch</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q216">
    <p>
      The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of
wonder.
    </p>
      <author>Ralph W. Sockman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q217">
    <p>
      I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ...
it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942
and 1945 -- even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely
to register the effects of violence -- marked and dated as an
indictment.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
      <source><cite>Dear Boullée</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q218">
    <p>
      Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
    </p>
      <author>Arnold Edinborough</author>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2011"><p>
Nobody ever makes you do anything.  What they want to do is their
decision.  What you do is yours.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
<source><cite>Life Itself: A Memoir</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q219">
    <p>
      Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite
clear to him.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Eldridge</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q220">
    <p>
      There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is
to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
    </p>
      <author>C.A.R. Hoare</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q221" date="1969">
    <p>
      One paramount truth / our society smothers / in petty concern /
with position and pelf: / It isn't enough / to exasperate others; /
you've got to remember / to gladden yourself.
    </p>
      <author>Piet Hein</author>
      <source>"It Isn't Enough", in <cite>Grooks 2</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q222">
    <p>
      In order to solve this differential equation you look at it
until a solution occurs to you.
    </p>
      <author>Quoted by George Pólya</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q223">
    <p>
      First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the
use of the same.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Recorde</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q224">
    <p>
      Nor is it very difficult to understand why a Canadian passport
should be so popular. Part of the explanation is that with it one can
travel easily almost anywhere. Another reason for the popularity of
the little blue booklet stamped in gold is that one can speak English
or French or Ukranian or Polish or Chinese and still be a Canadian.
One can, in fact, be almost anyone and still be a Canadian; and to be
a Canadian is to have a passport to the whole world.
    </p>
      <author>Douglas Lepan</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q225">
    <p>
      Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash
is everything.
    </p>
      <author>Henri Poincare</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q226">
    <p>
      When this grey world crumbles like a cake / I'll be hanging from
the hope / That I'll never see that recipe again.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/They_Might_Be_Giants">They Might Be Giants</author>
      <source>"It's Not My Birthday"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q227">
    <p>
      I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of
the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,
which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,
thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
    </p>
      <author>Leo Tolstoy</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q228">
    <p>
      When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him
<em>whose</em>?
    </p>
      <author>Don Marquis</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q229" date="1980">
    <p>
      Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the
geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our
purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history.
Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Jay_Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</author>
      <source>"Our Allotted Lifetimes", in <cite>The Panda's Thumb</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q230">
    <p>
      Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is,
should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be
laughed at.
    </p>
      <author>Pliny the Elder</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q231">
    <p>
      ... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know
not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed,
is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are
indifferent to the grandest phenomena -- care not to understand the
architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some
contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!
    </p>
      <author>Herbert Spencer</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q232">
    <p>
      A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is
just as bad.
    </p>
      <author>Bob Edwards</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q233">
    <p>
      If you sincerely desire a <em>truly</em> well-rounded education,
you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the
balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with
middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, <em>no matter
what</em>. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the
supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your
house, even if you are deaf and blind, the <em>telepathic pressure
alone</em> of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that
you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.
    </p>
      <author>Rev. Ivan Stang</author>
      <source><cite>High Weirdness By Mail</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q234">
    <p>
      There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of
mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head
of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
    </p>
      <author>Voltaire</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q235">
    <p>
      No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Frederick G. Banting</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q236">
    <p>
      Since this Galaxy began, vast civilizations have risen and
fallen, risen and fallen, risen and fallen so often that it's quite
tempting to think that life in the Galaxy must be (a) something akin
to seasick -- space-sick, time sick, history sick or some such thing,
and (b) stupid.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>Life, the Universe and Everything</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q237" date="1967">
    <p>
      Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued
by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>Marchbanks' Almanac</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q238">
    <p>
      Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three
roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the
land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree
falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway
Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway.
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
      <source>"From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q239">
    <p>
      This principle is so perfectly general that no particular
application of it is possible.
    </p>
      <author>Quoted by George Pólya</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q240" date="1997">
    <p>
      The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few
things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and
gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
    </p>
      <author>Steven Weinberg</author>
      <source><cite>The First Three Minutes</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q241">
    <p>
      I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even
melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to
handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor
and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and
you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is
intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive
manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q242">
    <p>
      Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of
me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know
that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q243">
    <p>
      If all the good people were clever; / And all clever people were
good, / The world would be nicer than ever / We thought that it
possibly could.
    </p>
      <author>Elizabeth Wordsworth</author>
      <source>"Good and Clever"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q244">
    <p>
      An efficient organization is one in which the accounting
department knows the exact cost of every useless administrative
procedure which they themselves have initiated.
    </p>
      <author>E.W.R. Steacie</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q245">
    <p>
      France has culture but no civilization. England has civilization
but no culture. The United States has neither. Canada has both.
    </p>
      <author>Robin Mathews</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q246">
    <p>
      There was never a great genius without a tincture of madness.
    </p>
      <author>Aristotle</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q247">
    <p>
      A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever
trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a
physical truth.
    </p>
      <author>O.G. Sutton</author>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2021"><p>amuse-douche: n.: an activity that you've adored since you were a kid -- riding bikes, reading books, taking pictures, cooking food -- whose enjoyment dissolves on contact with hard-core fanatics' ferocious obsession with technique.
</p><author>John Koenig</author>
<source rdf:resource="https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows"><cite>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q248">
    <p>
      In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point
of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
      <source>"A Popular Virtue"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q249">
    <p>
      Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like
a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them"
includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.
    </p>
      <author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q250">
    <p>
      You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow,
unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily
dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab
and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable
drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon.
    </p>
      <source>Monty Python: "Show Ten"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q251">
    <p>
      By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their
work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they
do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal
neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about
their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not
confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they
listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything.
These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly
the virtues of science.
    </p>
      <author>Jacob Bronowski</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q252">
    <p>
      Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do
not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient.
First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not
efficient." (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong
answers quickly.)
    </p>
      <author>Kernighan and Plauger</author>
      <source><cite>The Elements of Programming Style</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q253" date="1949">
    <p>
      If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on
a human face -- for ever... And remember that it is for ever.
    </p>
      <author>George Orwell</author>
      <source><cite>1984</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q254">
    <p>
      There are... scientific works -- star catalogues, for example --
which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein,
or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and
expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of
Beethoven or Dostoievski.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_R._Newman">James R. Newman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q255" date="1854">
    <p>
      The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
    </p>
      <author>Henry David Thoreau</author>
      <source><cite>Walden</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q256">
    <p>
      As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin
than Mozart.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steve_Reich">Steve Reich</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q257">
    <p>
      Once you accept that the world is a giant computer run by white
mice, all other movies fade into insignificance.
    </p>
      <author>Mutsumi Takahashi</author>
      <source>On <cite>The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q258">
    <p>
      Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a
wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the
pendulum. If you want to reach dead center, you will do well to avoid
the most advanced thinkers.
    </p>
      <author>Anthony Standen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q259">
    <p>
      We talk about the American way, the British way. If we had any
sense, we would know that there is no American way, no British way.
There is only one way -- the scientific way that cuts across racial
lines with international boundaries.
    </p>
      <author>M.M. Coady</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q260">
    <p>
      If we follow the advice of these people, we might as well go
back into the cave.
    </p>
      <author>Hans Bethe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q261" date="1959-06-24">
    <p>
      I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the
American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the
foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and
strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again,
and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>From a letter to Frances Glennon, in <cite>The Selected Letters of James Thurber</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q262">
    <p>
      About the only people who don't quarrel over religion are the
people who don't have any.
    </p>
      <author>Bob Edwards</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q263">
    <p>
      The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to
constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every
appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA
statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This
also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
    </p>
      <author>From a Fortran manual for Xerox computers</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q264" date="1982">
    <p>
      As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a
simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the
correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains
the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
    </p>
      <author>Sandra Boynton</author>
      <source><cite>Chocolate: The Consuming Passion</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q265">
    <p>
      If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance
that we can solve them.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q266">
    <p>
      Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into
the tracery of the finger of God.
    </p>
      <author>Herbert Westren Turnbull</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q267">
    <p>
      I am a sociologist, God help me.
    </p>
      <author>John O'Neill</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q268">
    <p>
      Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a
straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Arthur Eddington</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q269">
    <p>
      Think until it hurts.
    </p>
      <author>Roy Thomson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q270" date="1962">
    <p>
      The real question of government versus private enterprise is
argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically,
planning may be good etc -- but nobody has ever figured out the cause
of government stupidity -- and until they do and find the cure all
ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Feynman">Richard P. Feynman</author>
      <source>In a letter to Gweneth Feynman</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q271">
    <p>
      The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once
they have taken place.
    </p>
      <author>Claude T. Bissell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q272" date="1961-07-05">
    <p>
      The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous
ticking sound, and the future anybody's guess. It was fun back there
with the Rover Boys, the Little Colonel, Pollyanna, and
Peg-o'-my-Heart, but we don't want to be caught in the past while the
Russians are shaking hands with the Martians. Let us then be up and
doing.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>From a letter to Marianna Brown, in <cite>The Selected Letters of James Thurber</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q273">
    <p>
      Before a war military science seems a real science, like
astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
    </p>
      <author>Rebecca West</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q274">
    <p>
      There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians.
The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but
the surest is with technicians.
    </p>
      <author>Georges Pompidou</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q275">
    <p>
      This is th' original contract; these the laws / Impos'd by
nature, and by nature's cause.
    </p>
      <author>John Dryden</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q276">
    <p>
      ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase
our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and
therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not
only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art,
and a great art.
    </p>
      <author>John W.N. Sullivan</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q277">
    <p>
      It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, . . .
that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of
university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not
terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    </p>
      <author>George McGovern</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q278">
    <p>
      There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in
the proportion.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
      <source>"Of Beauty"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q279">
    <p>
      He saw the crowd and thought of the waves moving through them,
breaking into white, swallowing foam. The small figures dimly sensed
the eddies of the waves as paradox, as riddle, and heard the tick of
time without knowing what they sensed, and clung to their linear
illusions of past and future, of progression, of their opening births
and yawning deaths to come... And he thought of Markham and his mother
and all these uncountable people, never loosening their grip on their
hopes, and their strange human sense, their last illusion, that no
matter how the days moved through them, there always remained the
pulse of things coming, the sense that even now there was yet still
time.
    </p>
      <author>Gregory Benford</author>
      <source><cite>Timescape</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q280">
    <p>
      They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or
wisdom.
    </p>
      <author>Confucius</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q281">
    <p>
      The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people
in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We
shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
    </p>
      <author>C.P. Snow</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q282">
    <p>
      Reverend Belling (Graham Chapman): You know, there are many
people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are
sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in
their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our
tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity.
You can start in small ways with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice
and then you can paint half of your body red and the other half green
and then you can jump up and down in a bowl of treacle going "squawk,
squawk, squawk..." And then you can go "Neurhhh! Neurhhh!" and then
you can roll around on the floor going "pting pting pting"...
    </p>
      <source>Monty Python: "Show Twenty-One"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q283">
    <p>
      But is such a thing fit to be discovered to the people? shall I
do such an unworthy Act? Ah! my pen falls out of my hand. Yet my
desire to help posterity, overcomes; for perhaps from this gleaning as
it were, greater and more admirable inventions may be produced.
    </p>
      <author>Giambattista Della Porta</author>
      <source><cite>Natural Magick</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q284">
    <p>
      A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste
not the Pierian spring; / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
/ And drinking largely sobers us again.
    </p>
      <author>Alexander Pope</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q285">
    <p>
      All the secrets we may be able to keep from any and every god
and human being do not in the least absolve us from the obligation to
refrain from whatever actions are greedy, unjust, sensual, or
otherwise immoderate.
    </p>
      <author>Cicero</author>
      <source>"On Duties"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q286">
    <p>
      Thought alone is eternal.
    </p>
      <author>Owen Meredith</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q287">
    <p>
      The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his
soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the
earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
    </p>
      <author>James Joseph Sylvester</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q288">
    <p>
      Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
    </p>
      <author>Lord Chesterfield</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q289" date="1980">
    <p>
      If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet
some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved
something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be
willing to sing our swansong with joy -- <foreign>sic transit gloria
mundi</foreign>.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Jay_Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</author>
      <source>"In The Midst of Life...", in <cite>The Panda's Thumb</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q290">
    <p>
      In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science
particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to
which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
    </p>
      <author>H.A. Kramers</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q291">
    <p>
      Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we
know where we can find information on it.
    </p>
      <author>Samuel Johnson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q292">
    <p>
      Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem,
consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the
least possible expenditure of thought.
    </p>
      <author>Ernst Mach</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q293">
    <p>
      How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the
heat conduction equation, <em>Uxx=Ut</em>]... Perhaps Laplace gave
Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in
trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the
way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical
research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary
mortals.
    </p>
      <author>Clifford Truesdell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q294">
    <p>
      Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
    </p>
      <author>William Ellery Channing</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q295">
    <p>
      One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as
living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more
in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses
all interest in who will be champion.
    </p>
      <author>Anatol Rapoport</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q296">
    <p>
      The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an
almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor,
soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem
to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the
Persian King.
    </p>
      <author>Johann Becher</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q297">
    <p>
      Since when was genius found respectable?
    </p>
      <author>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q298" date="1859">
    <p>
      Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most
exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the
production of the higher animals, directly follows.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Darwin">Charles Darwin</author>
      <source><cite>The Origin of Species</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q299">
    <p>
      To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind:
civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of
experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is
peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an
ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of
them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war
(if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this
barbaric age).
    </p>
      <author>Robert Graves</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q300">
    <p>
      For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Feynman">Richard P. Feynman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q301" date="1951">
    <p>
      Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and
unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who
will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and
unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not
want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to
possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want
books as a Turk is thought to want concubines -- not to be hastily
deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more
often in thought than in reality.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>Tempest-Tost</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q302">
    <p>
      You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a
total disregard for the well-being of others. We don't want to spread
evil; we just see no point in bothering to spread good.
    </p>
      <author>Richard M. Mathews</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q303">
    <p>
      Maybe we're just lucky to live in a universe composed by a
divine Bach. Perhaps next door, the inhabitants of a John Cage
universe muddle along in chaos...
    </p>
      <author>Michael Weiss</author>
      <source>In <cite>sci.physics</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q304">
    <p>
      Q. "Do you think everything works out for the best?"
    </p>
    <p>
      A. "Maybe not the best, but everything works out to something."
    </p>
      <author>John Cage</author>
    <note>
      <p>
        In an interview in <cite>Talking Music</cite>, by William
Duckworth.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q305">
    <p>
      Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics
is a game with rules and no objectives.
    </p>
      <author>Anonymous</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q306">
    <p>
      I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
    </p>
      <author>Alfred Hitchcock</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q307">
    <p>
      The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper.
    </p>
      <author>Eden Phillpotts</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q308">
    <p>
      Sentimental or not, I confess that the predicament of poor
Valentino touched me. It provided grist for my mill, but I couldn't
quite enjoy it. Here was a young man who was living daily the dream of
millions of other young men. Here was one who was catnip to women.
Here was one who had wealth and fame. And here was one who was very
unhappy.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q309">
    <p>
      I didn't think; I experimented.
    </p>
      <author>Wilhelm Roentgen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q310">
    <p>
      [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were
destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not
only the living who are killed in war.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q311">
    <p>
      You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine
on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is
incapable of estimating it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Babbage">Charles Babbage</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q312">
    <p>
      I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of
a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or
any other minority viewpoint -- no matter how distasteful to the
majority, provided...
    </p>
      <author>Richard M. Nixon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q313">
    <p>
      You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud
reality.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hermann_Weyl">Hermann Weyl</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q314">
    <p>
      Ambition has but one reward for all: / A little power, a little
transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
    </p>
      <author>William Winter</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q315">
    <p>
      So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain,
namely, that nothing is certain...
    </p>
      <author>Pliny the Elder</author>
      <source>The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q316">
    <p>
      They [corporations] cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed, nor
excommunicated, for they have no souls.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Edward Coke</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q317" date="2001">
    <p>
      Of course, corporations and governments have a right to
something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the
ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's
potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have
the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite
in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.
    </p>
      <author>John Ralston Saul</author>
      <source><cite>On Equilibrium</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q318">
    <p>
      In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to
knowledge.
    </p>
      <author>J.G.C. Minchin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q319">
    <p>
      All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
    </p>
      <author>Edward Gibbon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q320">
    <p>
      I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and
endless light, / All calm, as it was bright; / And round beneath it, /
Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast
shadow mov'd; in which the world / And all her train were hurl'd.
    </p>
      <author>Henry Vaughan</author>
      <source>"The World"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q321">
    <p>
      The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those
who think.
    </p>
      <author>Horace Walpole</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q322" date="1994">
    <p>
      It has been said that for those who "feel", life is a tragedy
and for those who "think", it is a comedy. There is no need to live
only half a life. For those who both think and feel, life is an
adventure.
    </p>
      <author>Theodore Zeldin</author>
      <source><cite>An Intimate History of Humanity</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q323">
    <p>
      War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
    </p>
      <author>Titus Livius</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q324">
    <p>
      One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in
solitude.
    </p>
      <author>Goethe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q325">
    <p>
      It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples,
in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that
everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as
those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
    </p>
      <author>René Descartes</author>
      <source>In Discourse I</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q326">
    <p>
      I have sat through an Italian Opera, till, for sheer pain, and
inexplicable anguish, I haved rushed out into the noisiest places of
the crowded streets, to solace myself with sounds, which I was not
obliged to follow, and get rid of the distracting torment of endless,
fruitless, barren attention!
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Lamb">Charles Lamb</author>
      <source>"A Chapter on Ears"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q327">
    <p>
      The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid
and for deeds left undone.
    </p>
      <author>Harriet Beecher Stowe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q328">
    <p>
      The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as
the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to
steal bread.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anatole_France">Anatole France</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q329">
    <p>
      Real-world problems are often "high-dimensional", that is, are
described by large numbers of dependent variables. Algorithms must be
specifically designed to function well in such high-dimensional
spaces.
    </p>
      <author>David Rogers</author>
      <source>"Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q330">
    <p>
      God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School
Board.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q331">
    <p>
      The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated
ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
    </p>
      <author>Alexander Haig</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q332">
    <p>
      Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less
and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example,
there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of
a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces.
There are no straight lines.
    </p>
      <author>R. Buckminster Fuller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q333">
    <p>
      If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Beatty</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q334">
    <p>
      He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely
wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has
abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally."
    </p>
      <author>Hunter S. Thompson</author>
      <source><cite>Fear and Loathing '72</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q335">
    <p>
      The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that
heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's
funny ..."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q336">
    <p>
      What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
    </p>
      <author>Ursula K. Leguin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q337">
    <p>
      There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a
certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator
either of good or evil. The latter are in the greatest number, so much
more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering
reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.
    </p>
      <author>Charles Mackay</author>
      <source><cite>Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q338">
    <p>
      We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the
world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding
twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q339">
    <p>
      Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall
be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person
shall be deemed to be a cat.
    </p>
      <author>Rule 46, Oxford Union Society</author>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2011"><p>
I have had cats and I was fond of them, fonder than they ever were of
me. But what I want is unconditional love, and therefore I want a
dog. I want to make its life a joy.  I want to scratch behind its
ears, and scratch its belly when it rolls over.  I want to gently
extend its tail so the dog can tell it has a fine tail indeed. I want
to give it a shampoo, and sneak it bites from the table, and let it
exchange the news with other dogs we meet on the street.  I want it to
bark at the doorbell, be joyous to see my loved ones, shake hands, and
look concerned if I seem depressed.  If I throw a ball I want the dog
to bring back the ball and ask me to throw it again.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
<source><cite>Life Itself: A Memoir</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q340">
    <p>
      The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our
lives but have only one course of action.
    </p>
      <author>Frank Herbert</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q341">
    <p>
      No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a
complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific
interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.
    </p>
      <author>Stephen Toulmin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q342">
    <p>
      Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am
large, I contain multitudes).
    </p>
      <author>Walt Whitman</author>
      <source>"Song of Myself"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q343" date="1975">
    <p>
      One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems
just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps
the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of
this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and
systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods,
liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize
our fallibility and limitations.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fred_Brooks">Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.</author>
      <source><cite>The Mythical Man-Month</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q344" date="1987">
    <p>
      We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we
preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our
heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
    </p>
      <author>Penelope Lively</author>
      <source><cite>Moon Tiger</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q345">
    <p>
      We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
    </p>
      <author>Aldous Huxley</author>
      <source><cite>The Devils of Loudun</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q346">
    <p>
      Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible -- or even
sinful -- that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of
cigarettes!
    </p>
      <author>Dr. Paul MacCready Jr.</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q347">
    <p>
      Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job
to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old
and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who
die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests
and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death
is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all
of them.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
      <source><cite>Sandman</cite> #20: <cite>Façade</cite></source>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2018"><p>
  Dazzled by our own creations, we have forgotten that we are wholly
  embedded in a much older, more powerful world whose constancy we
  take for granted.  As a species, we are much less flexible than we
  would like to believe, vulnerable to economic loss and prone to
  social unrest when nature -- in the guise of Katrina, Sandy, or
  Harvey, among others -- diverges just a little from what we expect.
  Averse to even the smallest changes, we have now set the stage for
  environmental deviations that will be larger and less predictable
  than any we have faced before.  The great irony of the Anthropocene
  is that our outsized effects on the planet have in fact put Nature
  firmly back in charge, with a still-unpublished set of rules we will
  simply have to guess at.  The fossil record of previous planetary
  upheavals makes it clear that there may be a long period of
  biogeochemical capriciousness before a new, stable regime emerges.
</p><author>Marcia Bjornerud</author>
<source><cite>Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save
the World</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q348">
    <p>
      We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.
    </p>
      <author>Kurt Vonnegut</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q349">
    <p>
      Then the Lord himself spoke and said: "If you can grasp what is
meant by this, you will be delivered from the fear of Endings. So do
not cease from searching. Yet, remember this; when you find that for
which you are looking, you will at first be struck with horror and
amazement. But after the horror will come understanding; and in the
end you will find yourself to be set apart, and honoured above them
all."
    </p>
      <author>The Gospel of St. Thomas (Apocryphal)</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q350">
    <p>
      Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason
to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
    </p>
      <author>John A. Wheeler</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q351">
    <p>
      Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God
sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
    </p>
      <author>Elbert Hubbard</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q352">
    <p>
      The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties
of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific
measuring devices. The scientific method is only as effective as the
humans using it. It does not automatically lead to progress.
    </p>
      <author>Steven S. Zumdahl</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q353">
    <p>
      What is the difference between method and device? A method is a
device which you use twice.
    </p>
      <author>Quoted by George Pólya</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q354">
    <p>
      If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Darwin">Charles Darwin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q355">
    <p>
      Those who will not reason / Perish in the act: / Those who will
not act / Perish for that reason.
    </p>
      <author>W.H. Auden</author>
      <source>"Shorts"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q356">
    <p>
      The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou
worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his
mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest
like unto thyself.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ambrose_Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q357" date="1920">
    <p>
      Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe.
    </p>
    <author>H.G. Wells</author>
    <source><cite>The Outline of History</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q358">
    <p>
      Hence no force however great can stretch a cord however fine
into an horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will
always be a bending downwards.
    </p>
      <author>William Whewell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q359">
    <p>
      Those cave paintings are wonderful, but like everything we know,
they are not too wonderful to be true. It is their reality that gives
them wonder, and while there will never come a time when some of us
will not wish for more than we can have, the happiest of us will wait
confidently for other tangible finds. We treasure the cave at Altamira
where a century ago a little girl first saw the great painted bison.
New caves will be found, year after year, in lab or clinic or sky or
ocean depth, or even in ancient markings. That is the promise of real
science, which cannot allow wish to rule mind, but nonetheless finds
unendingly wonderful things.
    </p>
      <author>Philip Morrison</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q360">
    <p>
      I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our
schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in
everyday life.
    </p>
      <author>Petronius</author>
      <source><cite>The Satyricon</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q361" date="1969">
    <p>
      The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be
missed / if it didn't exist.
    </p>
      <author>Piet Hein</author>
      <source>"Nothing is Indispensable", in <cite>Grooks 2</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q362">
    <p>
      Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and
painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The
accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors
who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which
would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we
analyse here...
    </p>
      <author>Stan Openshaw</author>
      <source><cite>Doomsday</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q363">
    <p>
      Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this:
Let people be different.
    </p>
      <author>David Grayson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q364">
    <p>
      The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so
that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
    </p>
      <author>Daniel Webster</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q365" date="2003">
    <p>
      Wiping my nose on my sweater, which would now have to go to the
cleaners for sure, I read <cite>Miss MacKenzie</cite>, marveling at
the legibility of Trollope's hand, the fineness of it, and the fact
that there were almost no emendations, perhaps one or two crossed-out
words on a page. Page after page, perhaps eight hundred pages in all,
this is what makes a book, this is where genius goes, what he does,
what a privilege to be in his presence, to touch, to see, to read him
as he writes. I wished I had a class to share this with, or Dr. V,
because here on this very page, in Trollope's own hand, was Miss
MacKenzie her own self sighing into the mirror over her advancing age,
then moving forward to kiss her very own reflection. It would not do,
would not do at all, for tears to stain these pages, so I wiped my
eyes on my sleeve, yucky by now, and bowed my head over the words as I
turned page after page upon page. There are churches of all kinds;
this was mine.
    </p>
      <author>Jane Juska</author>
      <source><cite>A Round-Heeled Woman</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q366">
    <p>
      I've been in the presence of some powerful reality distortion
fields, including those that surround Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, but
you, Mr. Furr, take the cake.
    </p>
      <author>Philip Elmer-Dewitt</author>
      <source>To Joel Furr, in <cite>alt.internet.media-coverage</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q367">
    <p>
      I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in
getting to the moon.
    </p>
      <author>Marston Morse</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q368">
    <p>
      No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed
phenomenon.
    </p>
      <author>John A. Wheeler</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q369">
    <p>
      Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, / And danced the
skies on laughter-silvered wings...
    </p>
      <author>John Gillespie Magee</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q370">
    <p>
      Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our
politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more
important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A
mathematical equation stands forever.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q371">
    <p>
      Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all
barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has
caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of
creation.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q372">
    <p>
      We dance round in a ring and suppose, / But the Secret sits in
the middle and knows.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Frost</author>
      <source>"The Secret Sits"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q373">
    <p>
      Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary
for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive,
and probably wrong.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Feynman">Richard P. Feynman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q374" date="1980">
    <p>
      Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and
culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains
the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of
change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new
and liberating -- or toward the abyss.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Jay_Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</author>
      <source>"Shades of Lamarck", in <cite>The Panda's Thumb</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q375">
    <p>
      Whatever you do, stamp out abuses, and love those who love you.
    </p>
      <author>Voltaire</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q376">
    <p>
      My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the
traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by
such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift ... if we
suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carl_Sagan">Carl Sagan</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q377">
    <p>
      "After all, did not Our Lord send a lowly earthworm to comfort
Moses in his torment?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "No."
    </p>
      <source><cite>Blackadder III</cite>: "Duel and Duality"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q378">
    <p>
      Today's pop counterculture, especially among the young, is an
awesome mix of maximum mindlessness, minimum historical awareness, and
a pathetic yearning for (to quote Chico Marx) strawberry shortcut. To
hell with established religions, with science, with philosophy, with
economics and politics, with the liberal arts -- with anything that
demands time and effort.
    </p>
      <author>Martin Gardner</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q379" date="1979">
    <p>
      Let's see ... If I were meta-agnostic, I'd be confused over
whether I'm agnostic or not -- but I'm not quite sure if I feel
<em>that</em> way; hence I must be meta-meta-agnostic (I guess). Oh,
well.
    </p>
      <author>Douglas R. Hofstadter</author>
      <source><cite>Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q380">
    <p>
      If you can do an experiment in one day, then in 10 days you can
test 10 ideas, and maybe one of the 10 will be right. Then you've got
it made.
    </p>
      <author>Solomon H. Snyder</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q381">
    <p>
      A hundred astronomers have left parts of their souls and their
hopes in drawings showing the surface of Mars. A score of men have
left their stamp in the major theories about life on the strange
planet fourth from the sun. The names of ten thousand technicians and
scientists rest now on a plaque standing a few feet above the soil of
Mars, attached to a spacecraft sent there in 1976. Fifty writers have
tried their pen out on Mars and things Martian; sixty movie directors
have tried to grasp the magic and mystery... I would like to show you
how to fall in love with a planet.
    </p>
      <author>Robert M. Powers</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q382">
    <p>
      If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't
been much of a day.
    </p>
      <author>John A. Wheeler</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q383">
    <p>
      If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q384">
    <p>
      You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, by definition, half
of them are even dumber than <em>that</em>.
    </p>
      <author>J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, confusing the average and the median.</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q385">
    <p>
      You're bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Donald Knuth">Donald E. Knuth</author>
      <source>Said while answering questions after a lecture at Concordia University, Montreal</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q386">
    <p>
      Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river:
for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is
driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the
moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
    </p>
      <author>Ovid</author>
      <source><cite>The Metamorphoses</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q387" date="1791">
    <p>
      To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
    </p>
      <author>Goethe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q388" date="1991">
    <p>
      Underachiever -- and proud of it, man!
    </p>
      <source><cite>The Simpsons</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q389" date="1959-06-24">
    <p>
      "You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to
Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we
wouldn't go home.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>From a letter to Frances Glennon, in <cite>The Selected Letters of James Thurber</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q390">
    <p>
      Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There
is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance
sufficient for the purposes of human life.
    </p>
      <author>John Stuart Mill</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q391">
    <p>
      I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child
who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
    </p>
      <author>Will Rogers</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q392">
    <p>
      This example illustrates the differences in the effects which
may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on
the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement
and development of the older methods -- the research in pure science
has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact,
research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science
leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or
industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the
winning side.
    </p>
      <author>J.J. Thomson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q393">
    <p>
      We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by
Frankenstein logic.
    </p>
      <author>David Russell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q394">
    <p>
      In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of
a nonworld.
    </p>
      <author>Peter Drucker</author>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2012"><p>
... Jaques concluded that just as humans differ in intelligence, we
differ in our ability to handle time-dependent complexity.  We all
have a natural time horizon we are comfortable with: what Jaques
called "time span of discretion", or the length of the longest task
an individual can successfully undertake.   ... Jaques also noted that
effective organizations were comprised of workers of differing time
spans of discretion, each working at a level of natural comfort.  If a
worker's job was beyond his natural time span of discretion, he would
fail. If it was less, he would be insufficiently challenged and thus unhappy.
</p><author>Paul Saffo</author>
<source>In "Time Span of Discretion", from
<cite>This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts
to Improve Your Thinking</cite>, ed. John Brockman</source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q395">
    <p>
      If introductory physics were taught the way that introductory
computer science seems to be taught, students would not see equational
statements of Newton's Laws until their first semester of graduate
school.
    </p>
      <author>Jerry Kuch</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q396">
    <p>
      People who can't get laid watch <cite>Star Trek</cite> and eat
Twinkies!
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q397">
    <p>
      If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all
others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power
called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as
he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces
itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot
dispossess himself of it... He who receives an idea from me, receives
instructions himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his
taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should
be spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual
instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have
been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature...
    </p>
      <author>Thomas Jefferson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q398">
    <p>
      It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
    </p>
      <author>Enrico Fermi</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q399">
    <p>
      Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
    </p>
      <author>Samuel Johnson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q400">
    <p>
      I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego
their use.
    </p>
      <author>Galileo Galilei</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q401">
    <p>
      The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
    </p>
      <author>François Rabelais</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q402">
    <p>
      Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Niels_Bohr">Niels Bohr</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q403">
    <p>
      If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is
a citizen of the world.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
      <source>"Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q404">
    <p>
      The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of
the universe; the rules of the games are what we call the laws of
Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that
his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our
cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest
allowance for ignorance.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_Huxley">T.H. Huxley</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q405">
    <p>
      With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
    </p>
      <author>Friedrich Von Schiller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q406">
    <p>
      Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is
silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me
here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not
hate her work. I trust her.
    </p>
      <author>Goethe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q407">
    <p>
      Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been
forgotten.
    </p>
      <author>B.F. Skinner</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q408">
    <p>
      It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those
three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of
conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q409">
    <p>
      Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edward_Teller">Edward Teller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q410">
    <p>
      We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is
not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we
can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Feynman">Richard P. Feynman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q411">
    <p>
      What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a
mind at all. How true that is.
    </p>
      <author>J. Danforth Quayle</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q412">
    <p>
      Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
    </p>
      <author>Desiderius Erasmus</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q413">
    <p>
      If [in a rain forest] the traveler notices a particular species
and wishes to find more like it, he must often turn his eyes in vain
in every direction. Trees of varied forms, dimensions, and colors are
around him, but he rarely sees any of them repeated. Time after time
he goes towards a tree which looks like the one he seeks, but a closer
examination proves it to be distinct.
    </p>
      <author>Alfred Russel Wallace</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q414">
    <p>
      Rule Number 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule Number 2 is,
it's all small stuff.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Eliot</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q415">
    <p>
      This person called up and said, "You've got to come and take
this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one
weekend." And I said, "Well, I don't want to completely change my life
this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday."
    </p>
      <author>Rick Fields</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q416">
    <p>
      A machine is as distinctively and brilliantly and expressively
human as a violin sonata or a theorem in Euclid.
    </p>
      <author>Gregory Vlastos</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q417">
    <p>
      I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an
underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful
girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and
I care not who writes the nation's laws.
    </p>
      <author>S.J. Perelman</author>
      <source>"Captain Future, Block That Kick!"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q418">
    <p>
      God looks after the stupid, the drunk, and the United States.
    </p>
      <author>Anonymous</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q419">
    <p>
      ... Sir Isaac Newton... is in every Englishman's wallet... he's
on the English one-pound note. I always carry one on me for good luck.
A man who discovered gravity and thus successfully secured our feet on
the ground is a good companion.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
      <source><cite>The Belly of an Architect</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q420">
    <p>
      Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy
and dead.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q421">
    <p>
      I once asked a Christmas Eve group of children if they believed
in Santa Claus. The very smallest ones answered without hesitation,
"Why, of course!" The older ones shook their heads. The little girls
smiled but said nothing. One future scientist asserted boldly "I know
who it is"; and a little make-strong with his eye on gain said: "I
believe in it all; I can believe in anything." That boy, I realized,
would one day be a bishop.
    </p>
      <author>Stephen Leacock</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q422">
    <p>
      Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn
may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could
also be one of the last.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Forsyth</author>
      <source>"Machine Learning for Expert Systems"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q423">
    <p>
      She'd taken the harlot century she'd been born into for granted,
knowing no other, but now -- seeing it with <em>his</em> eyes, hearing
it with <em>his</em> ears -- she understood it afresh; saw just how
desperate it was to please, yet how dispossessed of pleasure; how
crude, even as it claimed sophistication; and, despite its zeal to
spellbind, how utterly unenchanting.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clive_Barker">Clive Barker</author>
      <source><cite>Weaveworld</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q424">
    <p>
      The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that
age brings wisdom.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q425">
    <p>
      If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the
most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
    </p>
      <author>George C. Marshall</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q426">
    <p>
      As I was going up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He
wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
    </p>
      <author>Hughes Mearns</author>
      <source>"The Psychoed"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q427">
    <p>
      A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
    </p>
      <author>Joseph Stalin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q428">
    <p>
      There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can
fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve their existence. The other
is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in
them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors...
    </p>
      <author>C.S. Lewis</author>
      <source><cite>The Screwtape Letters</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q429">
    <p>
      Well, to be fair I did have a couple of gadgets he probably
didn't, like a teaspoon and an open mind.
    </p>
      <author>The Doctor</author>
      <source>In David Fisher's <cite>The Creature From the Pit</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q430">
    <p>
      This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect,
compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of
some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame
performance; it is the work only of some dependent, inferior deity;
and is the object of derision of his superiors; it is the production
of old age and dotage in some superannuated deity; and ever since his
death, has run on at adventures, from the first impulse and active
force, which it received from him.
    </p>
      <author>David Hume</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q431">
    <p>
      I joy to journey among the stars, high above, to leave the earth
and this dull abode, to ride on the clouds and stand on stout Atlas'
shoulders, looking down from afar on men as they wander aimlessly,
devoid of any guiding principle, to unroll for them the scroll of
fate...
    </p>
      <author>Ovid</author>
      <source><cite>The Metamorphoses</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q432">
    <p>
      I was up at five, you know, we do have staff problems, I'm so
sorry, it's all done by magic.
    </p>
      <author>Basil Fawlty</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q433">
    <p>
      The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose
reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in
whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.
    </p>
      <author>J.B.S. Haldane</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q434">
    <p>
      At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled
themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast
such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the
Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in
blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least
echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of
civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.
    </p>
      <author>Gustave Le Bon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q435">
    <p>
      Now, if you play straight with me, you'll find me a considerate
employer. But cross me, and you'll soon discover that under this
playful, boyish, exterior beats the heart of a ruthless, sadistic
maniac.
    </p>
      <source><cite>Blackadder II</cite>: "Head"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q436">
    <p>
      Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
    </p>
      <author>Woody Allen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q437" date="1894-07-18">
    <p>
      ... that power of accurate observation which is commonly called
cynicism by those who have not got it.
    </p>
      <author>George Bernard Shaw</author>
      <source>In "Weber's Der Freischütz", 18 July 1894</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q438">
    <p>
      But the Machine God... Ah, He is a special God. He loves his
gears and his pumps, his springs and his transistors, his printed
circuits and his boilers. He is not a jealous God, like some, but he
is an attentive God. He tends to business, and keeps his world of
machines functioning. But every now and then, every once in a while,
every few centuries in a mind that is Machine and not Man, the Machine
God finds one He can care about more than the others.
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
      <source>"Ernest and the Machine God"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q439" date="1969">
    <p>
      To make a name for learning / when other roads are barred, /
take something very easy / and make it very hard.
    </p>
      <author>Piet Hein</author>
      <source>"Wide Road", in <cite>Grooks 2</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q440">
    <p>
      Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are
the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes,
and forgot.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
      <source><cite>Sandman</cite> #19: <cite>A Midsummer Night's Dream</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q441">
    <p>
      To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well,
after their own kind: we see them flock and gather together, and ready
to make head and stand against all others of a contrary kind: the
lions as fell and savage as they be, fight not with one another:
serpents sting not serpents, nor bite one another with their venomous
teeth: nay the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not
amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's
hand receiveth most harm and mischief.
    </p>
      <author>Pliny the Elder</author>
      <source>The Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q442" date="1981">
    <p>
      The plot involves ... excuse me for a moment, while I laugh
uncontrollably at having written the words "the plot involves". I'm
back. The plot involves a mysterious painter...
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
      <source>Reviewing <cite>The Beyond</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q443">
    <p>
      For non-deterministic read "Inhabited by pixies."
    </p>
      <author>Anonymous</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q444">
    <p>
      In a world deeply divided between those who are prepared to
believe nothing and those who are ready to believe anything, it is a
tricky business to enter into a discussion of matters that can be
dismissed either as miracles or as lies.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Denis_Johnston">Denis Johnston</author>
      <source><cite>The Brazen Horn</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q445">
    <p>
      I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I
adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
    </p>
      <author>Richard J. Needham</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q446">
    <p>
      One of the busiest areas of feminist research today is the
gender critique of the sciences. ... Students are taught ... that
Newton's Law of Mechanics and Einstein's relativity are gender-laden.
Regarding the latter, Sandra Harding says that the only remedy is "to
reinvent science and theorizing itself to make sense of women's social
experience."
    </p>
      <author>Christina Hoff Sommers</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q447">
    <p>
      Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person
loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain
self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that <em>you</em> must
think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that
Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that
if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will
hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have
plenty of food and water.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Barry">Dave Barry</author>
      <source>"Why Humor Is Funny"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q448">
    <p>
      The waste that he hated, I thought, was through him like blood
in his veins. He had saved nails and wasted life. He had lived alone,
but if he was a hermit he was neither religious nor philosophical. ...
He worked hard all his life at being himself, but there were no
principles to examine when his life was over. It was as if there had
been a moral skeleton which had lacked the flesh of the intellect and
the blood of experience. The life that he could recall totally was not
worth recalling; it was a box of string too short to be saved.
    </p>
      <author>Donald Hall</author>
      <source>"A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q449">
    <p>
      <em>Ocean</em>, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of
a world made for man -- who has no gills.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ambrose_Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</author>
      <source><cite>The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q450">
    <p>
      There are too many people, and too few human beings.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Zend</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q451">
    <p>
      Institutions feel no pain. Only people can feel the relentless
pain of illiteracy, the desperate bafflement of a mind unskilled in
the ways of logic and thoughtful attention, and dimly aware, but aware
nevertheless, of its own confusion. Schools do not have minds; they
have guidelines. Their guidelines run, when it isn't too inconvenient,
as far as what they are not at all ashamed to call the parameters of
basic minimum competency. Basic minimum competence (why <em>do</em>
they need that <em>y</em>?) is not literacy. It is, however, just
enough a counterfeit literacy to convince the minimally competent to
fancy themselves literate, except, of course, for those moments of
desperate pain.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Mitchell</author>
      <source><cite>The Underground Grammarian</cite>, March 1981.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q452">
    <p>
      I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most
writers on logic strongly object to all symbols... I should advise the
reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed
two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion.
First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the
revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has
produced no growth of symbols.
    </p>
      <author>Augustus De Morgan</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q453">
    <p>
      I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little
starbursts of <em>writing</em> from the Book of Revelation than
anything else in the English language -- and it is not because I am a
biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I
love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that
governs it and makes it music.
    </p>
      <author>Hunter S. Thompson</author>
      <source><cite>Generation of Swine</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q454" date="1922">
    <p>
      I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel
narrows the mind.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/G._K._Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</author>
      <source>"What is America?", in <cite>What I Saw in America</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q455">
    <p>
      In fact, one thing that I have noticed... is that all of these
conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever.
I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is
endlessly stupid.
    </p>
      <author>Brian E. Moore</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q456" date="1929">
    <p>
      "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb.
"Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the
truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science
is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
    </p>
    <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whitehead</author>
    <source>In <cite>The Aims of Education and other Essays</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q457" date="1957">
    <p>
      I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when
you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.
    </p>
    <author>Poul Anderson</author>
    <source>From "Call Me Joe"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q458">
    <p>
      When I returned to the soil, I had a ten-cent screwdriver and
the mechanical skill of a turtle. Today, thanks to unremitting study,
I can change a fuse so deftly that it plunges the entire county into
darkness.
    </p>
      <author>S.J. Perelman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q459">
    <p>
      <foreign>Fiat justitia, ruat caelum</foreign>. (Do the right
thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as
it seems, because in the real world it often turns out that doing what
is morally the right thing is also, in practical terms, the right
thing to do.
    </p>
      <author>Gwynne Dyer</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q460">
    <p>
      A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as
you don't try to knock her down with it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q461">
    <p>
      When <em>I</em> come upon anything -- in Logic or in any other
hard subject -- that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to
talk it over, <em>aloud</em>, even when I am all alone. One can
explain things so <em>clearly</em> to one's self! And then, you know,
one is so <em>patient</em> with one's self: one <em>never</em> gets
irritated at one's own stupidity!
    </p>
      <author>Lewis Carroll</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q462">
    <p>
      The purpose of the present course is the deepening and
development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory...
    </p>
      <author>A. A. Blasov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q463">
    <p>
      This is probably true in today's market, if you just grafted in
some free software. However, we are also talking about how a market
would work where software does not need to be rewritten and reinvented
literally thousands of times because people don't have any choice.
Perhaps the software that would be written would finally be more
useful than add-on cruft for MS-DOS or lousy "applets" for Netscape or
the umpteenth bad implementation of some marginally useful class for
C++. e.g., I don't think "good enough" would be workable in a world of
predominantly free software. The unfree code (it won't go away any
time soon) would also be held up to much higher standards than is done
today.
    </p>
      <author>Erik Naggum</author>
      <source>In <cite>gnu.misc.discuss</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q464">
    <p>
      University President: "Why is it that you physicists always
require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics
requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers... and the
Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for
erasers."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Asimov">Told by Isaac Asimov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q465">
    <p>
      I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
    </p>
      <author>Bill Watterson</author>
      <source><cite>The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q466">
    <p>
      ... the genes almost <em>always</em> accurately reproduce. If
they don't, you get one of the following results: One, monsters --
that is, grossly malformed babies resulting from genetic mistakes.
Years ago most monsters died, but now many can be saved. This has made
possible the National Football League.
    </p>
      <author>Cecil Adams</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q467">
    <p>
      I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even
contemplate what I am thinking about.
    </p>
      <author>Don Mazankowski</author>
      <source>(Mazankowski was the Canadian Finance Minister for most of the 1980s.)</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q468">
    <p>
      How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in
which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses
and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we
can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American]
students have learned to "critique tactfully?"
    </p>
      <author>Barbara J. Alexander</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q469">
    <p>
      If there's anything the Institute has too much of already, it's
concord and placidity. There's no tension on the premises, no crackle
in the air, no sense at all that there are mad geniuses lurking about.
    </p>
    <p>
      "I wish we had more crazy people here," Freeman Dyson has said.
    </p>
    <p>
      Just so.
    </p>
      <author>Ed Regis</author>
      <source><cite>Who Got Einstein's Office?</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q470">
    <p>
      We have our spasms of revolt, our flarings up of peekaboo
waists, free love and "art," but a mighty backwash of piety fetches
each and every one of them soon or late.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
      <source>"The Butte Bashkirtseff"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q471">
    <p>
      Here you come again with your arithmetical conundrums, when I am
suffering death with a cold in the head.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q472">
    <p>
      Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an
end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory
can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of
the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth
century thought.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Peter Medawar</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q473">
    <p>
      The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut
stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at
the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are
missing.
    </p>
      <author>Gamel Nasser</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q474">
    <p>
      There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inexplicable.
    </p>
    <p>
      There is another which states that this has already happened.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q475">
    <p>
      Heroin wasn't around then. It was introduced as a "safe"
alternative to morphine, just as methadone was then introduced as a
"safe" alternative to heroin. As usual, the drug problem had to be
continuously invented, or there would not be one.
    </p>
      <author>Christopher Pettus</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q476">
    <p>
      [Disney's machine] has placed a Mickey Mouse hat on every little
developing personality in America. As capitalism, it is a work of
genius; as culture, it is mostly a horror.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Schickel</author>
      <source><cite>The Disney Version</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q477">
    <p>
      About those crude, hate-filled cartoons in your Lesbian, Gay and
Bi issue: they're meant to subvert and debunk the stereotypical notion
that all gay people are imbued with Wildean wit, right?
    </p>
      <author>Cliff J. Doerksen</author>
      <source>In a letter to the McGill Daily</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q478">
    <p>
      Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable
propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within
neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be
classified as outrageous exceptions!
    </p>
      <author>W.J. Reichmann</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q479">
    <p>
      As a wise programmer once said, "Floating point numbers are like
sandpiles: every time you move one, you lose a little sand and you
pick up a little dirt." And after a few computations, things can get
pretty dirty.
    </p>
      <author>Kernighan and Plauger</author>
      <source><cite>The Elements of Programming Style</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q480">
    <p>
      Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies.
True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who
serve their purpose.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Denis_Johnston">Denis Johnston</author>
      <source><cite>The Brazen Horn</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q481">
    <p>
      Sir Howard: It is the truth, Cicely, and nothing but the truth.
But the English Law requires a witness to tell the <em>whole</em>
truth.
    </p>
    <p>
      Lady Cicely: What nonsense! As if anybody ever knew the whole
truth about anything!
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/George_Bernard_Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</author>
      <source><cite>Captain Brassbound's Conversion</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q482">
    <p>
      I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect
you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a
little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and
take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph
you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't
that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger,
and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it
crumble, decay, and rot.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clive_Barker">Clive Barker</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q483">
    <p>
      A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then
quietly strangled.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Barnett Cocks</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q484" date="1838">
    <p>
      Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal
fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou
hast in thee: out with it, then. Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth
to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today; for
the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
    </p>
      <author>Thomas Carlyle</author>
      <source><cite>Sartor Resartus</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q485">
    <p>
      The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for
the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract
theory and technical manipulation.
    </p>
      <author>Tom Naylor</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q486">
    <p>
      I don't like that they're not calculating anything. I don't like
that they don't check their ideas. I don't like that for anything that
disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation... It is
precise mathematically, but the mathematics is far too difficult for
the individuals that are doing it, and they don't draw their
conclusions with any rigour. So they just guess.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Richard_Feynman">Richard P. Feynman</author>
      <source>On superstring theory</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q487">
    <p>
      Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and
mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience
helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
    </p>
      <author>Henri Fabre</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q488">
    <p>
      I would rather live and love where death is king than have
eternal life where love is not.
    </p>
      <author>Robert G. Ingersoll</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q489">
    <p>
      Spring is here. For the love of heaven, let's open our windows
or we'll all die, suffocated by our false fears.
    </p>
      <author>Lysiane Gagnon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q490">
    <p>
      <cite>Prospero's Books</cite> is the <cite>Terminator 2</cite>
for intellectuals.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q491">
    <p>
      Psychographic marketing techniques helped Raid roach spray
marketers discover that the reason low-income Southern women were the
heaviest users of roach spray was that "a lot of their feelings about
the roach were very similar to the feelings that they had about the
men in their lives," said the advertising executive on the account.
They said the roach, like the man in their life, "only comes around
when he wants food." The act of spraying roaches and seeing them die
was satisfying to this frustrated, powerless group.
    </p>
      <author>American Demographics, Nov. 1991</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q492">
    <p>
      The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded: and the glory of Europe is extinguished for
ever.
    </p>
      <author>Edmund Burke</author>
      <source><cite>Reflections on The Revolution in France</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q493">
    <p>
      Fans are interesting things. Rush fans just can't comprehend why
the rest of the world doesn't like Rush. REM fans consider the rest of
the world beneath their refined dignities to notice. Kate Bush fans
love the rest of the world, and the world loves them, but spend long
nights plotting to knife one another in the back.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Darwin</author>
      <source>"Gradenza"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q494">
    <p>
      My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but
debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths...
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q495">
    <p>
      I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a
program I must share it with other people who like it. Software
sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user
agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with
other users in this way.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Stallman</author>
      <source>From the GNU Manifesto</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q496">
    <p>
      "First," said Opus, reading from the government manual, "Gather
shovels. Second, quickly and without panic, take refuge in
countryside... Dig shallow trenches. Lie down in trenches, cover self
with wooden door or like object and await blast. After shock wave
passes, emerge and go to nearest emergency Civil Defense Center and
fill out emergency change of address forms."
    </p>
      <author>Berke Breathed</author>
      <source><cite>Bloom Country Babylon</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q497">
    <p>
      Never be fatalistic about the inevitability of nuclear war or
the destruction of our environment. There are <em>ways</em> to avoid
the holocaust and to make the world a cleaner place. We must never
cease to search for them.
    </p>
      <author>Victor F. Weisskopf</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q498">
    <p>
      Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said
briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of
solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting
individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q499">
    <p>
      <em>Boffin:</em> A Puffin, a bird with a mournful cry, got
crossed with a Baffin, a mercifully obsolete Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
Their offspring was a Boffin, a bird of astonishingly queer
appearance, bursting with weird and sometimes inopportune ideas, but
possessed of staggering inventiveness, analytical powers and
persistence. Its ideas, like its eggs, were conical and unbreakable.
You push the unwanted ones away, and they just roll back.
    </p>
      <author>George Philip Chamberlain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q500">
    <p>
      He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he
sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q501">
    <p>
      But then... it used to be so simple, once upon a time.
    </p>
    <p>
      Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the
scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain
stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of
unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged
swimming things of superstition.
    </p>
    <p>
      Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like "Hurrah,
I've discovered Boyle's Third Law." And everyone knew where they
stood. But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting,
especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things
like matter and creation, and people stopped patiently building their
little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and
started getting interested in the chaos itself -- partly because it
was a lot easier to be an expert on chaos, but mostly because it made
really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt.
    </p>
      <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
      <source><cite>Witches Abroad</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q502">
    <p>
      Barney turned his little squinty blue eyes on me. "We go to the
garrick now and become warbs," he said. "The hell we do!" I thought to
myself quickly.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"The Black Magic of Barney Haller", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q503" date="1975">
    <p>
      They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great
shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from
the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in
pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways,
but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>World Of Wonders</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q504" date="1993">
    <p>
      When you search a database, you browse through recent material,
often covering no more than the last ten years. Cutting off the past
in this way streamlines the search. But a musing cut off from
historical roots loses the fertile exposure to false starts, abandoned
pathways, and unheard-of avenues. An exclusive focus on the recent
past curtails our mental musings, and a narrow awareness sacrifices
the intuitive mind.
    </p>
      <author>Michael Heim</author>
      <source>"Logic and Intuition", in <cite>The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q505" date="1963">
    <p>
      At their potlatch ceremonies these people would compete with
each other in burning and destroying their money and valuable
possessions, and accordingly their ideal was the man who would perhaps
seem to us a paranoid megalomaniac or possibly an industrial magnate.
    </p>
      <author>J.A.C. Brown</author>
      <source>On the Kwakiutl tribe, <cite>Techniques of Persuasion</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q506">
    <p>
      Although I know her soft body / I cannot sound out her heart; /
Yet we have but to make a few lines on a chart / And the distance of
the farthest stars / In the sky can be measured.
    </p>
      <author>The Sixth Dalai Lama</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q507">
    <p>
      The spreadsheet matrix is a creative prison bound by A1 and
Z1000. Walls. A psychological prison. Unlike the Black Death, nobody
sees this malady. There will be no cure. Soon it will be too late.
    </p>
      <author>John C. Dvorak</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q508">
    <p>
      No God is sane. How could it be? To be a Man is so much less
taxing, and most men are mad. Consider the God. How much more deranged
the Gods must be, merely to exist. There can be no doubt: consider the
Universe and the patterns without reason upon which it is run. God is
mad. The God of Music is mad. The Timegod is punctual, but he is mad.
And the Machine God is mad.
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
      <source>"Ernest and the Machine God"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q509">
    <p>
      Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Hummel</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q510">
    <p>
      They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape
those who dream only by night.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</author>
      <source>"Eleonora"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q511">
    <p>
      We must also have a special care to know the right ministring of
a compound, and how to find out the just proportion of weight therein;
for the goodness of the operations of things, consists chiefly in the
due proportion and measure of them: And unless the mixtion be every
way perfect, it availeth little in working.
    </p>
      <author>Giambattista Della Porta</author>
      <source><cite>Natural Magick</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q512">
    <p>
      It was very strange that I, who knew the whole extent of space
and time, and counted the wandering stars like sheep, overlooking
none, that I who was the most awakened of all beings, I, the glory
which myriads in all ages had given their lives to establish, and
myriads had worshipped, should now look about me with the same
overpowering awe, the same abashed and tongue-tied worship as that
which human travellers in the desert feel under the stars.
    </p>
      <author>Olaf Stapledon</author>
      <source><cite>Star Maker</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q513" date="1927">
    <p>
      The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the
Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still
arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute
about whether it is flat.
    </p>
      <author>Vilhjalmur Stefansson</author>
      <source><cite>The Standardization of Error</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q514" date="1964">
    <p>
      All the evils of publishing can be traced to one source --
copyright.
    </p>
      <author>Stefan Stykolt</author>
      <source>Quoted by Kildare Dobbs in <cite>The Living Name</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q515">
    <p>
      Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances
of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the
only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself
occupied.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q516">
    <p>
      I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q517">
    <p>
      The skeptic may be pardoned for thinking that hypertext
encourages irrelevance. What the user can end up with is little more
than a series of footnotes, marginalia, and "see also" references --
items that have historically been relegated to second-class
citizenship in the good old book format, with the added benefit of not
having to stare at a lousy screen display to read them... Indeed, when
you boil it down to its rudiments, hypertext seems to make one major
claim: it makes computers work almost as well as books.
    </p>
      <author>Stephen Manes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q518">
    <p>
      Testing? That's scheduled for first thing after 3.0 ships.
Quality is job Floating Point Error; Execution Terminated.
    </p>
      <author>Benjamin Ketcham</author>
      <source>On applications for Microsoft Windows, in <cite>comp.os.unix.advocacy</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q519" date="1913">
    <p>
      God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be
conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
    </p>
      <author>Norman Angell</author>
      <source>"Canada's Best Service for British Ideals"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q520" date="1971">
    <p>
      To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their
freedom, there is nothing to say.
    </p>
      <author>Lionel Tiger</author>
      <source><cite>The Imperial Animal</cite>, with Robin Fox</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q521">
    <p>
      The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a
tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless
standing in line.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H.L. Mencken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q522">
    <p>
      If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different
words than like what we use. For instance: they say "elevator", we say
"lift"; they say "drapes", we say "curtains"; they say "president", we
say "seriously deranged git".
    </p>
      <author>Alexei Sayle</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q523">
    <p>
      Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her
childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful
competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's
girl-next-door is all the American male could wish for -- unless, by
some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.
    </p>
      <author>Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q524" date="1968">
    <p>
      To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who
recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have
mastered them nonetheless -- a community which shares such a scorn and
disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole
bundle of rules and subvert them thereby -- that should be our goal.
    </p>
      <author>Howard Adelman</author>
      <source>"In Search of a University", <cite>The University Game</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q525" date="1977">
    <p>
      One such utopian dream was Charles Ives's Universe Symphony.
This was a work with hundreds or thousands of participants, spread out
across the valleys, on hillsides and on mountaintops. It was to be so
gigantic, so inclusive that no single individual could ever assume
mastery or control of it. Anyone who wished to do so could add to it.
It was only an idea then, but one which excites our imagination
enormously. To imagine ourselves as participants in a Universe
Symphony is to give more critical attention to our performance than is
the case if we merely consider ourselves to be in a dumpyard. We
analyze and criticize the music better; we recognize the soloists, the
conductors, the prima donnas; we listen to the talents and faults of
each.
    </p>
      <author>R. Murray Schafer</author>
      <source><cite>The Tuning of the World</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q526">
    <p>
      Andy and Flo live in the past, and when faced with something
they don't like or understand, they do the sensible thing -- ignore
it.
    </p>
      <author>Reg Smythe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q527">
    <p>
      At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the
amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society
permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is
to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously
deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we
accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching
light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is
clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from
laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
    </p>
      <author>Eric Idle</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q528">
    <p>
      May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his
eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his
apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime
conceal an important discovery.
    </p>
      <author>Patrick Blackett</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q529">
    <p>
      I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before
leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
    </p>
      <author>Emma Albani</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q530">
    <p>
      Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles -- the
ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the "format" of
the Python shows, that is, <cite>Monty Python</cite> without the
Pythons -- corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to
deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant
comedians who have proved that their method works.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Hewison</author>
      <source><cite>Monty Python: The Case Against</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q531">
    <p>
      It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the
labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else
if machines were used.
    </p>
      <author>Gottfried Von Leibniz</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q532">
    <p>
      His [Alan Turing's] high-pitched voice already stood out above
the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming
themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was
suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a
<em>powerful</em> brain. All I'm after is just a <em>mediocre</em>
brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company."
    </p>
      <author>Andrew Hodges</author>
      <source><cite>Alan Turing: The Enigma</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q533">
    <p>
      The FDA has so many rules that can be gotten around that the
consumer has no protection at all. You never know what you're eating.
I'm horrified when I discover the nature of ingredients in consumer
products as a result of my scientific work.
    </p>
      <author>Tina Chen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q534">
    <p>
      In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the
development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural
environment.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Wilkinson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q535">
    <p>
      Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no
data at all.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Babbage">Charles Babbage</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q536">
    <p>
      Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift
himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by
means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more
intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force
of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by
society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and
detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the
solitude of his thoughts.
    </p>
      <author>Heinrich Heine</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q537">
    <p>
      Do you know about the Eleventh Commandment? It says, "Thou shalt
not bore God, or he will destroy your universe."
    </p>
      <author>John Lilly</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q538">
    <p>
      The most important art in the last fifty years in this country
is boring art. What is important about John Cage or Jackson Pollock is
it's boring.
    </p>
      <author>Peter Sellars</author>
      <source>Quoted in <cite>A World Of Ideas II</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q539">
    <p>
      Literature is being taught as though it were only political
medicine or political poison -- a view that is not only illiberal but
illiterate.
    </p>
      <author>Louis Menand</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q540">
    <p>
      In our impatience to test our ideological wings, too many
students are trying to fly before they even know what feathers are;
too many students use half-baked versions of some cultural theory they
overheard in the cafeteria line-up as a valid justification for their
actions. Like Newman's ideal student, we too learn as we go along --
only now students use an idea like a weapon, to intimidate and
destroy, instead of as one tool in a constructive tool box. How often
have students, speaking in class, either justified themselves or
cudgelled some rival into silence and submission by evoking a great
name or theory?
    </p>
      <author>Derek Webster</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q541">
    <p>
      One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and
mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only
narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
    </p>
      <author>James Watson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q542">
    <p>
      I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
    </p>
      <author>Jean Louis Agassiz</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q543">
    <p>
      ... one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is
connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring
about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify
your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You
cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid
remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political
language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties,
from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound
truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity
to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at
least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if
one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some
<em>jackboot</em>, <em>Achilles' heel</em>, <em>hotbed</em>,
<em>melting pot</em>, <em>acid test</em>, <em>veritable inferno</em>
or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin where it belongs.
    </p>
      <author>George Orwell</author>
      <source>"Politics and the English Language"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q544">
    <p>
      The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe
that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and
instruction.
    </p>
      <author>Michael Faraday</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q545">
    <p>
      The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and
ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the
confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity
and respect for the integrity of man.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q546">
    <p>
      Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or
other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to
get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science
is but one.
    </p>
      <author>Seneca</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q547">
    <p>
      Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
      <source>"Of Death"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q548">
    <p>
      Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking
longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact,
to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of
physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
    </p>
      <author>Eugene Wigner</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q549">
    <p>
      It constantly confounds me that not only the young, but also
many certified intellectuals accept uncritically the superiority of
spontaneous or unconscious products of mind over those subjected to
conscious, rational control.
    </p>
      <author>Roger Shattuck</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q550">
    <p>
      In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is
richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any
other great work of art.
    </p>
      <author>Edward O. Wilson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q551">
    <p>
      It may be objected by some that I have concentrated too much on
the dry bones, and too little on the flesh which clothes them, but I
would ask such critics to concede at least that the bones have an
austere beauty of their own.
    </p>
      <author>A.B. Pippard</author>
      <source><cite>Classical Thermodynamics</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q552">
    <p>
      Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that,
"to call an animal with whom you share your life a `pet', is
reminiscent of men's magazines where you (a figure of speech, don't
take it personally) have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that
the continued use of the word "pet" to designate dogs or cats
threatens to reduce their level of respect to the current status of
twentieth century North American women. Now that's radical.
    </p>
      <author>The McGill Red Herring</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q553">
    <p>
      The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the
fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is
completely different.
    </p>
      <author>Aldous Huxley</author>
      <source><cite>The Devils of Loudun</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q554">
    <p>
      Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have
none left for themselves.
    </p>
      <author>Peter McArthur</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q555">
    <p>
      Thermodynamics is the kingdom also of running current history as
well as polemics, not to mention verbosity. In no other discipline
have the same equations been published over and over again so many
times by different authors in different ill-defined notations and
therefore claimed as his own by each; in no other has a single author
seen fit to publish essentially the same ideas over and over again
within a period of twenty years; and nowhere else is the ratio of talk
and excuse to reason and result so high.
    </p>
      <author>Clifford Truesdell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q556">
    <p>
      When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy
increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another
person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad
drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
    </p>
      <author>Rollo May</author>
      <source><cite>Love and Will</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q557">
    <p>
      Professor Branestawm, like all great men, had simple tastes. He
wore simple trousers with two simple legs. His coat was simply
fastened with safety pins because the buttons had simply fallen off...
    </p>
      <author>Norman Hunter</author>
      <source>"The Professor Invents a Machine"</source>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2006"><p>
  All oher countries view Britain through historical lenses as being
  admirable, hypocritical, conniving, inspirational, brutal, sexually
  comic, and so on, but we ignore them.  It is America alone whose
  specific range of often derisive views we are painfully aware of and
  humiliated by.  We share a language -- but that language now allows
  us to hear our inadequacies carefully spelt out by a place far
  wealthier and more confident and with a vigorous tradition of
  invective and derisive humour: a nightmare, in other words.
</p><author>Simon Winder</author>
<source><cite>The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into The Disturbing World of James Bond</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q558" date="1986">
    <p>
      The puppets which perform before the curtains / are already an
illusion. / A painting of puppets has moved still further / from
reality. / But just consider that the sky / is also a vast curtain: /
then which of us is not an actor on this stage?
    </p>
      <author>Hsü Wei</author>
      <source>"Inscribed on Paintings for the People of Hangchow", translated by Jonathan Chaves in <cite>The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q559">
    <p>
      For that moment she shared an overwhelming sense of wonder and
elation -- the joy and beauty of pure mathematics. It was the only
language possible in that narrow instant of triumph.
    </p>
      <author>David Brin</author>
      <source>"Dr. Pak's Preschool"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q560">
    <p>
      Privately owned radio has often been successful in its own
terms: profitability, stability, unflagging mediocrity.
    </p>
      <author>Keith Davey</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q561">
    <p>
      I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher
powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more
usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the
elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have
different and <em>bizarre</em> motions, with various and variable
values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for
what is profound.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</author>
      <source>"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q562">
    <p>
      We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe
most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
    </p>
      <author>R.W. Dickson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q563">
    <p>
      In all such cases there is one common circumstance -- the system
has a quantity of potential energy, which is capable of being
transformed into motion, but which cannot begin to be so transformed
till the system has reached a certain configuration, to attain which
requires an expenditure of work, which in certain cases may be
infinitesimally small, and in general bears no definite proportion to
the energy developed in consequence thereof. For example, the rock
loosed by frost and balanced on a singular point of the mountain side,
the little spark which kindles the great forest, the little word which
sets the world a-fighting, the little scruple which prevents a man
from doing his will, the little spore which blights all the potatoes,
the little gemmule which makes us philosophers or idiots. Every
existence above a certain rank has its singular points: the higher the
rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical
magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being, may
produce results of the greatest importance.
    </p>
      <author>James Clerk Maxwell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q564">
    <p>
      Above all nations is humanity.
    </p>
      <author>Goldwin Smith</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q565">
    <p>
      There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
    </p>
      <author>Robert L. Stanfield</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q566">
    <p>
      What is this life if, full of care, / We have no time to stand
and stare?
    </p>
      <author>W.H. Davies</author>
      <source>"Leisure"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q567">
    <p>
      There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more
dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
    </p>
      <author>J.W. Curran</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q568">
    <p>
      We have beside us a mountain of Books, Magazines, Pamphlets and
Newspapers, that have been accumulating for the last two months,
unopened and unread. Like a Turk, in the dim twilight of his Harem, we
scarcely know which to choose, but, we shall commence at the apex of
the pyramid, and dig downwards.
    </p>
      <author>Joseph Howe</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q569">
    <p>
      There's a saying among prospectors, "Go out looking for one
thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
    </p>
      <author>Robert Flaherty</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q570">
    <p>
      As a child I lived in the prairie province of Saskatchewan, and
it was there that I ran into the curious assumption that the world
around me was full of common people. This was never said in so many
words. It was just understood that greatness or extra value as a human
being existed only among the dead, or else it was an attribute of
someone far away, whom one never met. I grew up feeling the full
weight of my insignificance, and slowly, slowly began to build up my
ego. Receiving no help from the environment, I withdrew from it into a
world of imagination which was particularly illuminated by fiction
stories which I read...
    </p>
      <author>A.E. Van Vogt</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q571">
    <p>
      In the early October of that year, in the cathedral hush of a
Quebec Indian summer with the lake drawing into its mirror the fire of
the maples, it came to me that to be able to love the mystery
surrounding us is the final and only sanction of human existence.
    </p>
      <author>Hugh MacLennan</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="2021"><p>austice: n.: a wistful omen of the first sign of autumn -- a subtle coolness in the shadows, a rustling of dead leaves abandoned on the sidewalk, or a long skein of geese sweeping over your head like the second hand of a clock.
</p><author>John Koenig</author>
<source rdf:resource="https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows"><cite>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q572">
    <p>
      Food is rotting in warehouses, being burned and dumped into the
sea. It is the money system destroying food to maintain prices.
    </p>
      <author>William Aberhart</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q573">
    <p>
      In order to invent the airplane you must have at least a
thousand years' experience dreaming of angels.
    </p>
      <author>Arnold Rockman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q574">
    <p>
      For a person to live in a country, and to be ignorant of its
history on almost every issue that comes up, means that he is really
walking around in the dark all the time. I think that history can give
you a sense of courage in a difficult and dark world. You can say to
yourself: I at least know something about this world, I know how it
got the way it is, I know where it's possibly going, not certainly but
possibly. I can stand up against the world.
    </p>
      <author>Donald Creighton</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q575">
    <p>
      Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just
about as well as those who are always trying to please others.
    </p>
      <author>Bob Edwards</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q576" date="1924">
    <p>
      Of all national assets archives are the most precious; they are
the gift of one generation to another and the extent of our care of
them marks the extent of our civilization.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Arthur G. Doughty</author>
      <source><cite>The Canadian Archives and Its Activities</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q577">
    <p>
      That is not really a question I can answer. I try and understand
him, thus making him live again for the reader. But it is as if you
were asking me if I like one of the characters in my novels -- you
neither like nor dislike them. You have to bring them alive. That is
all.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Ackroyd">Peter Ackroyd</author>
      <source>When asked if he liked Sir Thomas More, subject of one of Ackroyd's biographies</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q578">
    <p>
      There seems to be a strong correlation between people who relish
tough football and people who relish intimidating and beating the hell
out of Commies, hippies, protest marchers and other opposition groups.
Watching well-advertised strong men knock other people around, make
them hurt, is in the end like other tastes. It does not weaken with
feeding. It grows.
    </p>
      <author>John McMurtry</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q579">
    <p>
      Some people say the animals see the straight path and flee from
it in fear, for they know it was built by men.
    </p>
      <author>James Houston</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q580">
    <p>
      A Canadian settler <em>hates</em> a tree, regards it as his
natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated
by all and any means. The idea of useful or ornamental is seldom
associated here even with the most magnificent timber trees, such as
among the Druids had been consecrated, and among the Greeks would have
sheltered oracles and votive temples. The beautiful faith which
assigned to every tree of the forest its guardian nymph, to every
leafy grove its tutelary divinity, would find no votaries here. Alas!
for the Dryads and Hamadryads of Canada!
    </p>
      <author>Anna Jameson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q581">
    <p>
      A day without a pun is a day without sunshine; there is gloom
for improvement.
    </p>
      <author>John S. Crosbie</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q582">
    <p>
      Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am
appalled by the dullness of that person.
    </p>
      <author>J.D. Griffin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q583">
    <p>
      Art history is the nightmare from which art is struggling to
awake.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Fulford</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q584">
    <p>
      It is a rotten world / Artful politicians are its bane / Its
saving grace is the / Artlessness of the young / And the wonders of
the sky.
    </p>
      <source>Epitaph, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q585">
    <p>
      Some commentators have suggested that I do not really exist,
that I am the figment of the imagination of certain newspaper
columnists and television producers. Personally, I reject this extreme
view.
    </p>
      <author>Pierre Trudeau</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q586">
    <p>
      The German method is to go to the principle of things, to select
the wrong principle, and to build on that.
    </p>
      <author>Louis Dudek</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q587">
    <p>
      Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and
responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she
really wants to do -- fall in love with men who are weak and
irresponsible.
    </p>
      <author>Richard J. Needham</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q588">
    <p>
      In some of the poorer areas of the world it is sadly true that
sex is the only luxury available to the ordinary man. Whether the
ordinary woman also considers it a luxury is open to question.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hugh_Keenleyside">Hugh L. Keenleyside</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q589">
    <p>
      "Why is <cite>The McGill Daily?</cite>" / Asked the pessimist
sourly. / "Thank God," said the optimist gaily, / "That it isn't
hourly!"
    </p>
      <author>A.J.M. Smith</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q590">
    <p>
      Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a
given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the
one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation
directed against the older generation.
    </p>
      <author>Lewis S. Feuer</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q591">
    <p>
      And after all, why should I go to bed every night? Sleep is only
a habit.
    </p>
      <author>Cornelius Van Horne</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q592">
    <p>
      You could dress up a pigeon in a tiny suit of evening clothes
and put a tiny silk hat on his head and a tiny gold-headed cane under
his wing and send him walking into my room at night. It would make no
impression on me. I would not shout, "Good god almighty, the birds are
in charge!" But you could send an owl into my room, dressed only in
the feathers it was born with, and no monkey business, and I would
pull the covers over my head and scream.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"There's An Owl in My Room", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q593" date="1960">
    <p>
      I know a lot of my friends who won't drive a car that is of a
model more than two years old. A great many of us have machinery in
our heads that is of a model a hundred years old.
    </p>
      <author>J.S. Woodsworth</author>
      <source>Quoted by F.H. Underhill in <cite>In Search of Canadian Liberalism</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q594" date="1970">
    <p>
      But I was not, to use the theological phrase,
<em>receptive</em>. The great obstacle to the influx of grace was my
own perfect happiness, and it is well known that God takes no thought
for the happy, any more than He does for birds and puppies, perhaps
realizing they have no need of Him and mercifully letting them alone.
    </p>
      <author>John Glassco</author>
      <source><cite>Memoirs of Montparnasse</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q595">
    <p>
      The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and
reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the
rooftops.
    </p>
      <author>Peter Ustinov</author>
      <source><cite>Dear Me</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q596">
    <p>
      If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though
poppies grow / In Flanders fields.
    </p>
      <author>John McCrae</author>
      <source>"In Flanders Fields"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q597">
    <p>
      This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and
otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk,
whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their
existence. Or lack thereof.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
      <source><cite>Books of Magic</cite> III</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q598">
    <p>
      It is an important and popular fact that things are not always
what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always
assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had
achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all
the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good
time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams</author>
      <source><cite>The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date="2023-06-19"><p>A submarine is the most sadistically dangerous vehicle ever invented, because it combines the shortest interval from the moment when someone makes an error to the moment everyone on board is doomed, with the longest interval from the moment everyone is doomed to the moment everyone is dead.</p>
     <author>Metafilter user "ocschwar"</author>
     <source>Discussing the June 2023 disappearance of a deep-diving submarine</source>
     <!-- Original link: https://www.metafilter.com/199672/Submersible-visiting-the-Titanic-has-gone-missing -->
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q599">
    <p>
      Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is
not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music.
Music is the <em>best!</em>
    </p>
      <author>Frank Zappa</author>
      <source><cite>Joe's Garage</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q600">
    <p>
      The mind, in fact, is trained to be able to deal with routine:
the routine of working in an office, the routine of working in a
factory, the routine even of teaching, the routine of going to school.
The mind is routinized. And under those circumstances it is
understandable that the most uncreative and frequently destructive
aspects of the human mind are brought out.
    </p>
      <author>Murray Bookchin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q601">
    <p>
      A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and
look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation,
with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun.
    </p>
      <author>Llewelyn Powys</author>
      <source><cite>The Pathetic Fallacy</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q602">
    <p>
      One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to
bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them.
    </p>
      <author>Digital Equipment Corporation</author>
      <source>In a comment from SENDMAIL Ruleset 3</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q603" date="1974">
    <p>
      I find myself surprised by the thought that dying is an
all-right thing to do, but perhaps it should not surprise. It is,
after all, the most ancient and fundamental of biologic functions,
with its mechanisms worked out with the same attention to detail, the
same provision for the advantage of the organism, the same abundance
of genetic information for guidance through the stages, that we have
long since become accustomed to finding in all the crucial acts of
living.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lewis_Thomas">Lewis Thomas</author>
      <source>"The Long Habit", in <cite>The Lives of a Cell</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q604">
    <p>
      I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of
think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd
like people come up to me and say, "I need a religion." I'd go talk to
them for awhile, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a
great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing
that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up
anyway.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q605">
    <p>
      I look around and it's obvious to me: spreadsheet programming is
turning the users into humorless accountant types. It is the
embodiment of the bookkeeper's thought pattern. If you don't already
have this peculiar pattern, then using a spreadsheet for any length of
time will slowly turn your mind into the mind of a bookkeeper. The
final result is not unlike the creation of mindless pod people seen in
<cite>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</cite>.
    </p>
      <author>John C. Dvorak</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q606">
    <p>
      I'm aware someone might pump a few bullets into me. But that
won't deter me because I believe what I do is important. We have a
safer, better society as a result. I felt it was my duty. And I've
never regretted it.
    </p>
      <author>Dr. Henry Morgentaler</author>
      <source>Quoted in the <cite>Toronto Globe and Mail</cite>, Nov. 3, 1998</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q607" date="1978">
    <p>
      Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's
lives. And, you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
    </p>
      <author>Frederik Pohl</author>
      <source><cite>The Way The Future Was</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q608">
    <p>
      What is termed "disrespect for law" in fact may only be the
manifestation of a burning desire for justice. Order, like law, to be
respected, must deserve respect. Disrespect for an order that does not
deserve respect ought not to be condemned as degeneration, but
commended as a healthy regeneration. What I am concerned about is that
lawyers and judges too often regard "order" as a shield for the
protection of privilege.
    </p>
      <author>J.C. McRuer</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q609">
    <p>
      We can't go on living on a planet that's two-thirds slum -- not
with safety.
    </p>
      <author>Arnold Smith</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q610">
    <p>
      If I die, the turtle will carry the secret of the trip and
reveal it at the proper time.
    </p>
      <author>George L. Stathakis</author>
    <note>
      <p>
        Stathakis was a Greek-born Buffalo chef and mystic who went
over Niagara Falls in a barrel on July 5, 1930. He perished, but his
pet turtle crawled out of the barrel and lived for many years without
revealing a word of "the secret."
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q611">
    <p>
      Mathematical concepts and facts gain in vividness and clarity if
they are well connected with the world around us and with general
ideas, and if we obtain them by our own work through successive stages
instead of in one lump.
    </p>
      <author>George Pólya</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q612">
    <p>
      And they all agreed that the expression <em>on</em> the face was
not one of happiness. There were many possible explanations for that
expression, but no one would have said terror, for it was not terror.
They would not have said helplessness, for it was not that, either.
They might have settled on a pathetic sense of loss, had their
sensibilities run that deep, but none of them would have felt that the
expression said, with great finality: a man may truly live in his
dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, <em>only</em> if he is worthy of
those dreams.
    </p>
      <author>Harlan Ellison</author>
      <source>"Delusion for a Dragon Slayer"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q613">
    <p>
      Jargon: Jargon consists of words, phrases and syntactic usages
which make communication easier between insiders in any field of study
while making it harder for outsiders, thereby linguistically enforcing
the elitism of expertise. Unless you use jargon liberally your career
is likely to stagnate, especially in the computer industry.
    </p>
      <author>Forsyth and Rada</author>
      <source><cite>Machine Learning</cite> (definition in the glossary)</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q614">
    <p>
      ... it is the peculiar and perpetual error of human intellect to
be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas
it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both
alike.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
      <source>"Idols of the Mind"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q615">
    <p>
      I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
    </p>
      <author>The Doctor</author>
      <source>In John Peel's <cite>Timewyrm: Genesys</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q616" date="1973">
    <p>
      But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to
venture a little way past them into the impossible.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur C. Clarke</author>
      <source>"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q617">
    <p>
      Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I
had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings," and I
have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress
yours.
    </p>
      <author>Stewart Brand</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q618">
    <p>
      Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved
children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children -- but we
pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest
communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her
thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm
when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.
    </p>
      <author>Garrett Hardin</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q619">
    <p>
      That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation.
Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that
politicians -- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates
-- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its
face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal
children.
    </p>
      <author>Hunter S. Thompson</author>
      <source><cite>Generation of Swine</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q620">
    <p>
      The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has
its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous
structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little
of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q621">
    <p>
      It should, therefore, be the goal of formal educational programs
to train the programmer to the point where he can use his tools as
tools to further his learning.
    </p>
      <author>Gerald M. Weinberg</author>
      <source><cite>The Psychology of Computer Programming</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q622">
    <p>
      I am engaged in teaching, at graduate level, in producing one
variety of "mathematical engineer." The most powerful test I know of
for an applicant to be one of my students is that he have an absolute
mastery of his native tongue: you just need to listen to him.
    </p>
      <author>E.W. Dijkstra</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q623">
    <p>
      And I have no desire to get ugly. / But I cannot help mentioning
that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result
of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
    </p>
      <author>Ogden Nash</author>
      <source>"Seeing Eye to Eye Is Believing"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q624">
    <p>
      There is a pleasure sure / In being mad, which none but madmen
know.
    </p>
      <author>John Dryden</author>
      <source><cite>The Spanish Friar</cite>, II, i</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q625">
    <p>
      It was Larry, of course, who started it. The rest of us felt too
apathetic to think of anything except our own ills, but Larry was
designed by Providence to go through life like a small, blond
firework, exploding ideas in other people's minds, and then curling up
with cat-like unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the
consequences.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gerald_Durrell">Gerald Durrell</author>
      <source><cite>My Family and Other Animals</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q626">
    <p>
      Law I: The difficulty of using a program is proportional to its
usefulness, inversely proportional to its speed, size, and ease of
learning, and is a constant.
    </p>
    <p>
      Law II: When multitasking applications on a personal computer,
difficulty is conserved and is a constant.
    </p>
    <p>
      Law III: Creativity is inversely proportional to the memory size
of a computer.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Hummel</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q627">
    <p>
      In practically any comedy or tragedy of Shakespeare one cannot
read twenty lines without being made aware that, behind the clowns,
the criminals, the heroes, behind the flirts and the weeping queens,
beyond all that is agonizingly or farcically human, and yet symbiotic
with man, immanent in his consciousness and consubstantial with his
being, there lie the everlasting data, the given facts of planetary
and cosmic existence on every level, animate and inanimate, mindless
and purposively conscious.
    </p>
      <author>Aldous Huxley</author>
      <source><cite>The Devils of Loudun</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q628">
    <p>
      In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to
running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to
fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on
the ludicrous assumption that <em>men</em> know how to fix things,
when in fact all they know how to do is <em>look</em> at things in a
certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop;
eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job
requiring them to transfer to another home.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Barry">Dave Barry</author>
      <source>"Heat? No Sweat"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q629">
    <p>
      I don't do crack. I don't do heroin. And I don't do desktop
publishing.
    </p>
      <author>Stephen Manes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q630">
    <p>
      What is now proved was once only imagined.
    </p>
      <author>William Blake</author>
      <source>"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q631">
    <p>
      Nothing ever begins.
    </p>
    <p>
      There is no first moment; no single word or place from which
this or any other story springs.
    </p>
    <p>
      The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and
to the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice
recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age
will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.
    </p>
    <p>
      Thus the pagan will be sanctified, the tragic becomes laughable;
great lovers will stoop to sentiment, and demons dwindle to clockwork
toys.
    </p>
    <p>
      Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction,
mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have only this in
common: that hidden amongst them is a filigree which will with time
become a world.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clive_Barker">Clive Barker</author>
      <source><cite>Weaveworld</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q632">
    <p>
      Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whitehead</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q633">
    <p>
      And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when
minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an
outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to
the will of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are
made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as
they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the
ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.
    </p>
      <author>Galileo Galilei</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q634">
    <p>
      One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a
house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place.
    </p>
      <author>Emily Dickinson</author>
      <source>"Time and Eternity"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q635">
    <p>
      Mathematics has its paradoxes, astronomy its uncertainties
(about what is being measured), physics having suffered certain
metaphysical relapses can survive only by swallowing entire jugs of
wholly contradictory measurements. As for psychology, its most
brilliant and its most scandalous success has been in a realm of
theory in which measurement is as welcome as Macduff at Dunsinane.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_R._Newman">James R. Newman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q636">
    <p>
      If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the
day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust,
and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break
down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every
civilization does. In place of this we have death.
    </p>
      <author>Charles Sanders Peirce</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q637">
    <p>
      The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of
daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion.
    </p>
      <author>Donald A. Wollheim</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q638">
    <p>
      Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has
been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been
playful, rebellious, and immature.
    </p>
      <author>Tom Robbins</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q639">
    <p>
      ... I think Bergman would never have been celebrated as much had
he made films in English because the language is so cynical. If you
say "I'm full of fear," or "I'm full of pain," in an English movie,
people fall out of the seats with laughter.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Cox</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q640">
    <p>
      It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the
security of a god.
    </p>
      <author>Seneca</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q641">
    <p>
      I'm not religious at all, but I don't believe in death. Death is
a very beautiful thing. I believe <em>that</em>. ... I won't ever see
you, darling, but it's been very nice talking to you. Life is very
beautiful, you know.
    </p>
      <author>Sheila Florance</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q642">
    <p>
      The wonderful childlike game of infinite planes and smooth,
perfect bodies, reality unwrinkled, cast a web of consoling order,
infinite trajectories and infinitesimal instants, harmonic truths.
From that cartoon realm it was always necessary to slip back, cloaking
exhilarating flights of imagination in a respectable deductive style.
But that did not mean, when the papers appeared in the learned
journals, disguised by abstracts and references and ornate, distancing
Germanic mannerisms -- that did not mean you forgot being in that
other place, the beautiful world where Mind met Matter, the paradise
you never mentioned.
    </p>
      <author>Gregory Benford</author>
      <source>"Newton Sleep"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q643">
    <p>
      Imaginative literature in the service of rebellion, or satanism,
quickly sinks into exhibitionism or obscurity. Imaginative literature
as the expression of a deeply apprehended truth, poetry which
interprets to a man the myth of his own age, can in the hands of
Dante, of Shakespeare, of Cervantes, of Camoes and of Goethe, help to
raise the level of a whole civilization.
    </p>
      <author>J.M. Cohen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q644">
    <p>
      When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the
heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be
living among the gods.
    </p>
      <author>Leon Battista Alberti</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q645">
    <p>
      Canadian consumers race across the border to buy the kind of
cheap goods that a country with low wages and a third-rate social
security system can produce. So empty are their lives, apparently,
that a three-hour lineup of cars at the border coming back is viewed
as an acceptable trade-off.
    </p>
      <author>Charles Gordon</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q646">
    <p>
      There is a tendency among some Pagans to want to be back in, let
us say, sixth-century Wales instead of wanting a <em>transformed</em>
world. Going back to sixth-century Wales is a fantasy that is dear to
me. It's part of the archetypal dream. But that is all it is. Nobody
really wants to go back into the past except a bunch of space cookies.
It is not modern technology that is desensitizing. It is the misuse of
it that is.
    </p>
      <author>Gwydion Pendderwen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q647">
    <p>
      To live well in the present, to live decently and humanely,
<em>we must see into the future.</em>
    </p>
      <author>Robert Scholes</author>
      <source><cite>Structural Fabulation</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q648">
    <p>
      In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but
an unwitting imitator of nature.
    </p>
      <author>George A. Cowan</author>
      <source>"A Natural Fission Reactor"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q649">
    <p>
      The aim of this article has been to show that our most
successful theories in physics are those that explicitly leave room
for the unknown, while confining this room sufficiently to make the
theory empirically disprovable. It does not matter whether this room
is created by allowing for arbitrary forces as Newtonian dynamics
does, or by allowing for arbitrary equations of state for matter, as
General Relativity does, or for arbitrary motions of charges and
dipoles, as Maxwell's electrodynamics does. To exclude the unknown
wholly as a "unified field theory" or a "world equation" purports to
do is pointless and of no scientific significance.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Hermann Bondi</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q650">
    <p>
      Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the
steamroller, you're part of the road.
    </p>
      <author>Stewart Brand</author>
      <source><cite>The Media Lab</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q651">
    <p>
      The road ahead can hardly help being strewn with many a mistake.
The main point is to get those mistakes made and recognized as fast as
possible!
    </p>
      <author>John A. Wheeler</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q652">
    <p>
      Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    </p>
      <author>Henry Brooks Adams</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q653">
    <p>
      As for the passions and studies of the mind, avoid envy, anxious
fears, anger fretting inwards, subtle and knotty inquisitions, joys
and exhilarations in excess, sadness not communicated. Entertain
hopes, mirth rather than joy, variety of delights rather than surfeit
of them, wonder and admiration (and therefore novelties), studies that
fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects (as histories,
fables, and contemplations of nature).
    </p>
      <author>Francis Bacon</author>
      <source>"Of Regiment of Health"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q654">
    <p>
      To see the world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild
flower; / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an
hour.
    </p>
      <author>William Blake</author>
      <source>"Auguries of Innocence"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q655">
    <p>
      The world will never starve for wonders; but only for want of
wonder.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/G._K._Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q656">
    <p>
      The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the
little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a
heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable
and genial feeling.
    </p>
      <author>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q657">
    <p>
      To live by medicine is to live horribly.
    </p>
      <author>Carl Linnaeus</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q658">
    <p>
      It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite
things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur Machen</author>
      <source><cite>The Hill of Dreams</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q659">
    <p>
      So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon
completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall
reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can
abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all
directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the
small.
    </p>
      <author>Emil Wiechert</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q660">
    <p>
      Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is
perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of
civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
    </p>
      <author>Freeman Dyson</author>
      <source><cite>Infinite in All Directions</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q661">
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
      <author>Nathaniel Borenstein</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q662">
    <p>
      Worlds may freeze and suns may perish, but there stirs something
within us now that can never die again.
    </p>
      <author>H.G. Wells</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q663">
    <p>
      There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of
fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
    </p>
      <author>Desmond Bernal</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q664">
    <p>
      The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations
consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they
are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This
kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is
commonly thought to be...
    </p>
      <author>Antoine Lavoisier</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q665">
    <p>
      I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't
even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps
a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has
the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles.
    </p>
      <author>Joseph Newcomer</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q666">
    <p>
      ... men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that
they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never
give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end
and move towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are
unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no
matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.
    </p>
      <author>Niccolo Machiavelli</author>
      <source><cite>The Discourses</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q667" date="1908">
    <p>
      An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/G._K._Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</author>
      <source>"On Running After One's Hat", in <cite>All Things Considered</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q668">
    <p>
      ... equally it appeared to us as unreasoning Creativity, at once
blind and subtle, tender and cruel, caring only to spawn and spawn the
infinite variety of beings, conceiving here and there among a thousand
inanities a fragile loveliness.
    </p>
      <author>Olaf Stapledon</author>
      <source><cite>Star Maker</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q669">
    <p>
      I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on
the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
    </p>
      <author>Groucho Marx</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q670">
    <p>
      For the difference between art and entertainment is, finally,
one not so much of direction as of degree: though all entertainment is
not art, all art must include entertainment. "Entertaining" means
interest-holding, and what bores and fails to involve has no real
artistic value. Granted, art makes demands; it entertains those who
are willing and able to feel, perceive, and think more deeply and
arduously -- more courageously if you will -- rather than those who
always want to leave their thoughts behind, most likely because
thought has abandoned them.
    </p>
      <author>John Simon</author>
  </quotation>

<quotation date="2011"><p>
[I] am awed by people who take the risks of performance.  I become
their advocate and find myself in sympathy.  I can employ
scorched-earth tactics in writing about a bad movie, but I rarely
write sharp criticism of actors themselves.  If they're  good in a
movie, they must have done something right.  If they're bad, it may
have been the fault of filming conditions or editing choices.  Perhaps
they may simply have been bad.  I feel reluctant to write in a hurtful
way; not always, but usually.  I feel repugnance for the critic John
Simon, who made it a speciality to attack the way actors look. They
can't help how they look, any more than John Simon can help looking
like a rat.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
<source><cite>Life Itself: A Memoir</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q671">
    <p>
      MAN: But I am a man.
    </p>
    <p>
      WOMAN: Yes, to a degree. That is a trifle abnormal. But not
insurmountable.
    </p>
      <author>Myrna Lamb</author>
      <source>"But What Have You Done For Me Lately"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q672">
    <p>
      The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it
incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend
their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in
which they themselves do not believe and that it teaches the essential
meaninglessness of all creations of the mind; words, images and ideas.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q673">
    <p>
      ... there are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the
way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We
somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But
that's not the purpose of art.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q674">
    <p>
      Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Donald Knuth">Donald E. Knuth</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q675">
    <p>
      In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence,
of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]
fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September
1976 by the palaeontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a
ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
    </p>
      <author>John Reader</author>
      <source><cite>Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q676">
    <p>
      London has always provided the landscape for my imagination, if
that does not sound too pretentious, and I suppose becomes a character
-- a living being -- within each of my books. Perhaps I am writing its
history, or biography, by indirection -- certainly I think, all of my
books, biography and fiction alike, are single chapters in the book
which will only be completed at the time of my death. Then I hope the
city itself will be seen as a metaphor for the nature of time and the
presence of the past in human affairs.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Ackroyd">Peter Ackroyd</author>
      <source>In an interview in October 1998</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q677">
    <p>
      We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and
readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of
his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection,
that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been
in me.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</author>
      <source><cite>Great Expectations</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q678">
    <p>
      Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States,
unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter
bullet.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Barry">Dave Barry</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q679">
    <p>
      I should be able to whisper something in your ear, even if your
ear is 1000 miles away, and the government disagrees with that. [GQ
magazine in England] quoted me on that -- they changed one letter. It
said I should be able to whisper something in your <em>car</em>, even
though I am 1000 miles away. I wonder what the people in England think
of me.
    </p>
      <author>Philip Zimmermann</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q680">
    <p>
      Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I
have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall
apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my
former opinions.
    </p>
      <author>Rene Descartes</author>
      <source>First Meditation</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q681">
    <p>
      A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed
of by its author.
    </p>
      <author>S.C. Johnson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q682">
    <p>
      ... the social sciences were for all those who had not yet
decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature
frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
    </p>
      <author>Peter Ustinov</author>
      <source><cite>Dear Me</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q683" date="1951">
    <p>
      Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of
Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped
to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless
parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric,
odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits
of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine
and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself
beautifully to its new position.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>Tempest-Tost</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q684">
    <p>
      I have a friend who told me that the greatest computer system
ever built by mankind was by the Druids at Stonehenge. Well, that's an
old story. But what I like was that he felt that the Druids didn't die
out, they just went bankrupt trying to debug the software.
    </p>
      <author>James Finkle</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q685" date="2001">
    <p>
      Romans disapproved of Greek sports because the athletes competed
nude. That was shocking. On the other hand, people dripping with blood
and dying for entertainment was fine. This is strangely similar to the
moral standards of today's commercial television and family movies.
    </p>
      <author>John Ralston Saul</author>
      <source><cite>On Equilibrium</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q686">
    <p>
      We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves
infested with losers and nut cases.
    </p>
      <author>Patrick Nielsen Hayden</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q687">
    <p>
      However, we must not lose sign of the fact that to digitize
ideas, there first must be ideas. Consequently, creativity and
imagination -- or whatever stimulates them -- must stop being the
privileges of a precious few and become important parts of values that
need to be promoted in every order of life -- not just in education.
    </p>
      <author>Llorenç Valverde</author>
      <source>"Rites, Rituals, and the Passage of Time: Change in a Technological Age", in <cite>On The Internet</cite>, September/October 1998</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q688">
    <p>
      In essence, the God of the Abrahamic religions has only one law,
since all the other laws are just special cases of it. The law is: "If
I tell you to do something, then do it, for no better reason than
because I say so. Even if I tell you to kill your own kid, don't
bother asking why -- I don't have to give you a reason. Just do it."
This law does not profit us. It puts those who accept it in the habit
of equating right conduct with obedience, and that helps many people
to be willing to slaughter one another because somebody told them to.
    </p>
    <p>
      On the other hand, there are a lot of things which do profit us.
One of the most consistently profitable things we do is ask "Why?".
    </p>
      <author>Paul Filseth</author>
      <source>In <cite>alt.atheism.moderated</cite>, 16 May 1999</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q689">
    <p>
      Chemistry is physics without thought; mathematics is physics
without purpose.
    </p>
      <author>Anonymous</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q690">
    <p>
      The beauty of mechanical problems is that they are often visible
to the naked and untrained eye. If white smoke is rising from a disk
drive, that is probably where the problem lies (unless your disk drive
has just elected the new Pope).
    </p>
      <author>John Bear</author>
      <source><cite>Computer Wimp</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q691">
    <p>
      I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which
came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved
that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who
preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even
iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q692">
    <p>
      ... here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to
2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that
dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame
others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of
freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you
disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
    </p>
      <author>Gerard K. O'Neill</author>
      <source><cite>2081</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q693">
    <p>
      I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than
to refresh my commitment to science.
    </p>
      <author>Heinz Pagels</author>
      <source><cite>The Dreams of Reason</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q694">
    <p>
      There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper
work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunnelling into a bank, or
being President of the United States. I suppose that even the most
pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs
through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the
days ran on.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"Memoirs of a Drudge", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q695">
    <p>
      In a paper awaiting publication [Paul Horowitz] and [Carl] Sagan
list about 50 odd signals from the Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay
I and its twin outside Buenos Aires, META II. Some have
characteristics that rule out their being messages from
extraterrestrials. But dozens remain, suspended forever in time like a
ringing phone that you picked up a nanosecond too late.
    </p>
      <author>Sharon Begley</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q696">
    <p>
      You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running
across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're
sure they won't laugh if you trip.
    </p>
      <author>Jonathan Carroll</author>
      <source><cite>Outside the Dog Museum</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q697">
    <p>
      The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort
space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really
old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though
they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases
than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that
are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant
equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good
bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
    </p>
      <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
      <source><cite>Guards! Guards!</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q698">
    <p>
      Numbers and lines have many charms, unseen by vulgar eyes, and
only discovered to the unwearied and respectful sons of Art. In
features the serpentine line (who starts not at the name) produces
beauty and love; and in numbers, high powers, and humble roots, give
soft delight.
    </p>
      <author>E. De Joncourt</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q699">
    <p>
      "Every minute dies a man, / Every minute one is born"; I need
hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the
sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise,
whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly
on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that
in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation
to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a
man / And one and a sixteenth is born." I may add that the exact
figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the
laws of metre.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Babbage">Charles Babbage</author>
      <source>In a letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q700">
    <p>
      The criterion of simplicity is not necessarily based on the
speed of the algorithm or in its complexity in serial computers.
    </p>
      <author>Armand De Callatay</author>
      <source><cite>Natural and Artificial Intelligence</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q701">
    <p>
      Imitation of nature is bad engineering. For centuries inventors
tried to fly by emulating birds, and they have killed themselves
uselessly... You see, Mother Nature has never developed the Boeing
747. Why not? Because Nature didn't need anything that would fly at
700 mph at 40,000 feet: how would such an animal feed itself?... If
you take Man as a model and test of artificial intelligence, you're
making the same mistake as the old inventors flapping their wings. You
don't realize that Mother Nature has never needed an intelligent
animal and accordingly, <em>has never bothered to develop one.</em> So
when an intelligent entity is finally built, it will have evolved on
principles different from those of Man's mind, and its level of
intelligence will certainly not be measured by the fact that it can
beat some chess champion or appear to carry on a conversation in
English.
    </p>
      <author>Anonymous</author>
      <source>Quoted in Jacques Vallee's <cite>The Network Revolution</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q702">
    <p>
      We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the
end we become disguised to ourselves.
    </p>
      <author>La Rochefoucauld</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q703">
    <p>
      I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.
    </p>
      <author>Senator George Aiken</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q704">
    <p>
      There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit
the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
    </p>
      <author>Johann Sebastian Bach</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q705">
    <p>
      As life moves to this electronic frontier, politicians and
corporations are starting to exert increasing control over the new
digital realm, policing information highways with growing strictness.
Before we even realise we're there, we may find ourselves boxed into a
digital ghetto, denied simple rights of access, while corporations and
government agencies make out their territory and roam free. So who
will oppose the big guys? Who's going to stand up for our digital
civil liberties? Who has the techno-literacy necessary to ask a few
pertinent questions about what's going down in cyberspace? Perhaps the
people who have been living there the longest might have a few
answers.
    </p>
      <author>Mark Bennett</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q706">
    <p>
      Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that
their legs are too thick, and their bottoms are too big, and their
bosoms are too small. They are conviced that their nose is the wrong
shape, that their ears stick out, and that their eyes are too close
together. They need a man who will tell them they are exactly right as
they are. They do not believe him, but they need to hear it said.
    </p>
      <author>Richard J. Needham</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q707">
    <p>
      Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer
as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Stallman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q708">
    <p>
      We have plenty of information technology -- what is perhaps
needed now is more intelligence technology, to help us make sense of
the growing volume of information stored in the form of statistical
data, documents, messages, and so on. For example, not many people
know that the infamous hole in the ozone layer remained undetected for
seven years as a result of infoglut. The hole had in fact been
identified by a US weather satellite in 1979, but nobody realised this
at the time because the information was buried -- along with 3 million
other unread tapes -- in the archives of the National Records Centre
in Washington DC. It was only when British scientists were analysing
the data much later in 1986 that the hole in the ozone was first
"discovered".
    </p>
      <author>Tom Forester</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q709">
    <p>
      And so, the best of my advice to the originators and designers
of Ada has been ignored. In this last resort, I appeal to you,
representatives of the programming profession in the United States,
and citizens concerned with the welfare and safety of your own country
and of mankind: Do not allow this language in its present state to be
used in applications where reliability is crucial, i.e., nuclear power
stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, antiballistic
missile defense systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a
programming language error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a
harmless trip to Venus: it may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one
of our own cities. An unreliable programming language generating
unreliable programs constitutes a far greater risk to our environment
and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or accidents at
nuclear power stations. Be vigilant to reduce the risk, not to
increase it.
    </p>
      <author>C. A. R. Hoare</author>
      <source>1980 Turing Award Lecture</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q710">
    <p>
      Here we have a game that combines the charm of a Pentagon
briefing with the excitement of double-entry bookkeeping.
    </p>
      <author>Cecil Adams</author>
      <source>On role-playing games, in <cite>The Straight Dope</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q711" date="1969">
    <p>
      Here lies, extinguished in his prime, / a victim of modernity: /
but yesterday he hadn't time--- / and now he has eternity.
    </p>
      <author>Piet Hein</author>
      <source>"More Haste: Inscription for a monument at the crossroads", in <cite>Grooks 1</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q712">
    <p>
      When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a
beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken
that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the
thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of
living, in the hearts you encounter.
    </p>
      <author>Albert Camus</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q713">
    <p>
      Childbirth is <em>not</em> a miracle. Life is <em>not</em>
sacred. When you have twenty thousand nomads huddled between two
rivers in the Middle East and that's it for Homo sapiens, when one in
five children is a live birth, one in ten living past the age of ten,
<em>then</em> childbirth <em>is</em> a miracle and life <em>is</em>
sacred. When the average age of a grandmother in Philadelphia's
housing projects is twenty-five, to call childbirth a miracle is at
least a tasteless joke and at worst a true obscenity.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Sim">Dave Sim</author>
      <source>Cerebus #142</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q714">
    <p>
      Well, yes I drove a cab in San Francisco, and in New York I
worked as a part-time social worker. Phil Glass and I had a moving
company for a short period of time. I did all kinds of odd jobs ...
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steve_Reich">Steve Reich</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q715">
    <p>
      The way of the portable computer user is as a stony path strewn
with plugs and sockets, all the wrong size...
    </p>
      <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
      <source>In <cite>alt.fan.pratchett</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q716" date="1993-02-28">
    <p>
      Now, think about a kid in 5th grade today. They've grown up with
Nintendo and arcade-quality games on their computers. They've grown up
with zillions of utilities which typically have been polished for
years. They've grown up with operating environments that, no matter
what we may think of them, are orders of magnitude more sophisticated
and complex than what we started with. What's their motivation to
program? It's going to be years of work before their programs can
equal the quality and capability of stuff they can get just by asking.
When I started programming, I spent a lot of time writing games. Is a
kid who's used to animated 256-color action games with sound going to
bother, when the best they can do is produce some text or a few lines
moving around on the screen? And as everything moves toward GUI-ness,
that places another obstacle in their path -- the work needed to put a
GUI on something may well be beyond them, let alone actually providing
any functionality. Sometimes I wonder if we aren't the last generation
to care about the guts of the machine. We were introduced to computers
when they were simple enough that we could make them do interesting
tricks even as young children. Today, through the fruits of our own
efforts, "interesting" is a much tougher goal, and I don't know
whether our children will make it in significant numbers.
    </p>
      <author>James W. Birdsall</author>
      <source>In <cite>alt.folklore.computers</cite>.</source>
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  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q717">
    <p>
      I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I
mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from
here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend
that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals
flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies
are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish
into cold and dust. But I can pretend.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
      <source><cite>Sandman</cite> #48: <cite>Journey's End</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q718">
    <p>
      Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must
build as if the sand were stone.
    </p>
      <author>Jorge Luis Borges</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q719">
    <p>
      In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that
someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time.
Networks help alleviate that fear.
    </p>
      <author>John C. Dvorak</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q720">
    <p>
      More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency
(without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason --
including blind stupidity.
    </p>
      <author>W.A. Wuld</author>
      <source>"A Case against the GOTO", <cite>SIGPLAN Notices</cite>, November 1972</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q721">
    <p>
      If you've been reading the trend sections of your weekly
newsmagazines, you know that "yuppies" are a new breed of serious,
clean-cut, ambitious, career-oriented young person that probably
resulted from all that atomic testing. They wear dark, natural-fiber,
businesslike clothing even when nobody they know has died. In college,
they major in Business Administration. If, to meet certain academic
requirements, they have to take a liberal-arts course, they take
Business Poetry.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dave_Barry">Dave Barry</author>
      <source>"Yup The Establishment"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q722">
    <p>
      The argument that we have to condition children to horrors is
now seen as fallacious; there is no question of introducing them to
horrors, because the horrors already known to them are far in excess
of anything we experience as adults.
    </p>
      <author>P.M. Pickard</author>
      <source><cite>I Could a Tale Unfold: Violence, Horror &amp; Sensationalism in Stories for Children</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q723">
    <p>
      I see these two legendary men as symbolic of the American dream.
Their position atop a vast religious/cable television/Bad Hair empire
shows the entire world that America truly is the Land of
Opportunity(tm), where Narrow-Minded, Really Dumb Guys can, and
regularly do, get to the top.
    </p>
      <author>Ron Barber</author>
      <source>On Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, in <cite>alt.fan.lemurs</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q724">
    <p>
      <em>pixel</em>, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated
with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed
from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons
in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing
department.
    </p>
      <author>Jeff Meyer</author>
      <source>a.k.a. Moriarty on Usenet</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q725" date="1970">
    <p>
      These petitioners had no conception of art; to them a picture
was a symbol of something else, and very readily the symbol became the
reality. They were untouched by modern education, but their government
was striving with might and main to procure this inestimable benefit
from them; anticlericalism and American bustle would soon free them
from belief in miracles and holy likenesses. But where, I ask myself,
will mercy and divine compassion come from then? Or are such things
necessary to people who are well fed and know the wonders that lie
concealed in an atom? I don't regret economic and educational advance;
I just wonder how much we shall have to pay for it, and in what coin.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>Fifth Business</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q726">
    <p>
      We shouldn't surrender so readily to only half understanding all
kinds of things. Try harder to understand, and then when you have
understood take a little time out maybe to explain to others.
    </p>
      <author>Irving Kaplansky</author>
      <source>Quoted in <cite>More Mathematical People</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q727">
    <p>
      Much perverse incompetence comes from managers and/or
secretaries trying to use words whose meanings they don't know. Some
people go through their entire careers in a fog this way. They're
often C or D students who got accustomed to being confused in class,
and who now, after years of practice, have lost all awareness that it
is <em>possible</em> to understand things clearly and know the exact
meaning of every word that one uses. I know that as a teacher, I find
my biggest challenge is reaching people who are accustomed to being
confused, and no longer consider confusion undesirable.
    </p>
      <author>Michael A. Covington</author>
      <source>In <cite>alt.folklore.computers</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q728" date="1983">
    <p>
      No, I wouldn't go as far as some of my fellow [mental]
calculators and indiscriminately welcome all numbers with open arms:
not the horny-handed, rough-and-tough bully 8 or the sinister 64 or
the arrogant, smug, self-satisfied 36. But I do admit to a very
personal affection for the ingenious, adventurous 26, the magic,
versatile 7, the helpful 37, the fatherly, reliable (if somewhat
stodgy) 76...
    </p>
      <author>Hans Eberstark</author>
      <source>From the introductory comment to Steven B. Smith's <cite>The Great Mental Calculators</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q729" date="1988">
    <p>
      EMI may have been gambling when it signed Kate Bush, but it was
a gamble that paid... only EMI had a Kate Bush, and the idiosyncratic
nature of Bush's music made the construction of a Kate Bush clone an
accomplishment almost beyond the powers of imagination.
    </p>
      <author>Holly Kruse</author>
      <source>"In Praise of Kate Bush", in <cite>On Record</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q730" date="1975">
    <p>
      The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from
pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air,
creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so
flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of
realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this
very tractability has its own problems.)
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fred_Brooks">Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.</author>
      <source><cite>The Mythical Man-Month</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q731" date="1962">
    <p>
      I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the
simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become
disturbed.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in <cite>Credos and Curios</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q732" date="1988">
    <p>
      "Since the invasion of Grenada," a military source informed me,
"we call it C^5. That's Command, Control, Communications, Computers
and Confusion."
    </p>
      <author>Barbara Garson</author>
      <source><cite>The Electronic Sweatshop</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q733">
    <p>
      There are two kinds of researchers: those that have implemented
something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there
are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which
is best. The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.
    </p>
      <author>David Cheriton</author>
      <source>Paraphrased in <cite>comp.os.minix</cite>; available in an archive entitled <cite>Linux_is_obsolete.Z</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q734">
    <p>
      When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been
ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am 50, I read them
openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the
fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
    </p>
      <author>C.S. Lewis</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q735">
    <p>
      A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful
software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of
multipart projects, those software systems that have excited
passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few
designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, APL, Pascal, Modula,
the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them with Cobol,
PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fred_Brooks">Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q736">
    <p>
      I would, however, recommend to every one of my Readers, the
keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down
punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of
Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of
themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are
about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man
weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily
forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joseph_Addison">Joseph Addison</author>
      <source>In the Spectator for March 4, 1712</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q737">
    <p>
      In contrast, too many new programmers write as if there were no
programmers before them and there shall come none after them. The best
of the new breed learn to program from learn-by-example-in-21-days
textbooks of very low quality; the worst learn from guesswork and
trial and error with a Pavlovian focus on pain avoidance. None of them
learn to do it right from a master of the art of programming. Instead,
they learn from watching other programs perform. I blame the intense
redirection of energy away from programming to user interface design
on this lack of ability to read the language from programmer to
computer.
    </p>
      <author>Erik Naggum</author>
      <source>In <cite>gnu.misc.discuss</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q738">
    <p>
      But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of
the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed,
analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
    </p>
      <author>Bruce Leverett</author>
      <source>"Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q739">
    <p>
      Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing
deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and
writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the
material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of
arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth,
should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
    </p>
      <author>Alan Kay</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q740">
    <p>
      Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger;
the child will turn instinctively for more assistance, the puppy will
grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a
frantic resistance.
    </p>
      <author>H.H. Munro</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q741">
    <p>
      I went on to test the program in every way I could devise. I
strained it to expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and
low-mass stars, for stars born exceedingly hot and those born
relatively cold. I ran it assuming the superfluid currents beneath the
crust to be absent -- not because I wanted to know the answer, but
because I had developed an intuitive feel for the answer in this
particular case. Finally I got a run in which the computer showed the
pulsar's temperature to be less than absolute zero. I had found an
error. I chased down the error and fixed it. Now I had improved the
program to the point where it would not run at all.
    </p>
      <author>George Greenstein</author>
      <source><cite>Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q742">
    <p>
      The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity, in a girl
it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each
assumes the qualities of the other.
    </p>
      <author>Victor Hugo</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q743" date="1983">
    <p>
      Larger projects generally do not meet one or more of the
criteria for success: schedule, budget, or customer satisfaction.
Furthermore, a post-mortem of the large project will not pinpoint the
explicit causes of failure.
    </p>
      <author>J.D. Aron</author>
      <source><cite>The Program Development Process: The Programming Team</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q744">
    <p>
      The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those
who make empty prophecies. That danger already exists that
mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the
spirit and confine man to the bonds of Hell.
    </p>
      <author>St. Augustine</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q745">
    <p>
      I fear the the new object-oriented systems may suffer the fate
of LISP, in that they can do many things, but the complexity of the
class hierarchies may cause them to collapse under their own weight.
    </p>
      <author>Bill Joy</author>
      <source><cite>Operating Systems of the 90s and beyond</cite>, A. Karshmer, J. Nehmer, eds.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q746">
    <p>
      Why do we behave like this? I believe that it is because
operating systems have had for many years the reputation of being very
difficult to write and you had better not mess with them. It's also
been policy that machines are very fast and it doesn't matter if you
execute two or three times as many instructions as necessary; by the
time you've debugged a faster version the processors will be three
times as fast as they are now anyhow. Nor does it matter (it's policy)
that over-general programs are too big. Memory's cheap. I think this
attitude is exceptionally bad. It leads to big clumsy implementations,
and, when used in a teaching environment, corrupts the minds of the
young, which isn't our proper business.
    </p>
      <author>Roger M. Needham</author>
      <source>"What Next? Some Speculations", in <cite>Operating Systems of the 90s and beyond</cite>, A. Karshmer, J. Nehmer, eds.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q747">
    <p>
      The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a
respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no
gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame.
English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics,
and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and
war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most
impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they
are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for
them to despise science fiction.
    </p>
      <author>Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q748">
    <p>
      So where the sheer incompetence of politicians and generals used
to start wars, the sheer incompetence of us computer people has now
put an end to it. No mean feat. For centuries humanity has been
looking for the Weapon That Would End War Forever. We have found it.
War has ended, not with the bang of a bomb, but with the gentle
whisper of crashing software.
    </p>
      <author>Gerard Stafleu</author>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2011"><p>
"Kindness" covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them
out. I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our
abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and
something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best
we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves
unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to
the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our
circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I
lived long enough to find it out.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
<source><cite>Life Itself: A Memoir</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q749">
    <p>
      One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics
is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a
state of sheer terror.
    </p>
      <author>W.K. Hartmann</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q750">
    <p>
      I think that it is hard to read such material without amusement.
I feel a little admiration as well. I would never write, "It happened
one frosty look of trees waving gracefully against the wall." I almost
wish I could. Poor poets endlessly rhyme love with dove, and they are
constrained by their highly trained mediocrity never to write a good
line. In some sense, a stochastic process can do better; it at least
has a chance.
    </p>
      <author>J.R. Pierce</author>
      <source>On randomly generated sentences, in "Symbols, Signals, and Noise"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q751">
    <p>
      Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/G._K._Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q752">
    <p>
      Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city,
interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens,
visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in
Corinth.
    </p>
      <author>Harold Urey</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q753">
    <p>
      Sooner or later I suppose the want will be supplied, in that
commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and
in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to
get anything he wants.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/G._K._Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</author>
      <source>In "How to Write a Detective Story"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q754">
    <p>
      Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same
thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Vixie</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q755">
    <p>
      Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to
other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die.
It has to be killed.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur Miller</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q756">
    <p>
      When the folklorist drew the villagers' attention to the
authentic version, they replied the old woman had forgotten, that her
great grief had almost destroyed her mind. It was the myth that told
the truth, the real story was already only a falsification. Besides,
was not myth truer by the fact that it made the real story yield a
deeper and richer meaning, revealing a tragic destiny?
    </p>
      <author>Mircea Eliade</author>
      <source><cite>The Myth of the Eternal Return</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q757">
    <p>
      GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and
impossible to accomplish complex actions.
    </p>
      <author>Doug Gwyn</author>
      <source>In <cite>comp.unix.wizards</cite> on June 22, 1991</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q758">
    <p>
      To those accustomed to the precise, structured methods of
conventional system development, exploratory development techniques
may seem messy, inelegant, and unsatisfying. But it's a question of
congruence: precision and flexibility may be just as dysfunctional in
novel, uncertain situations as sloppiness and vacillation are in
familiar, well-defined ones. Those who admire the massive, rigid bone
structures of dinosaurs should remember that jellyfish still enjoy
their very secure ecological niche.
    </p>
      <author>Beau Sheil</author>
      <source>"Power Tools for Programmers"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q759">
    <p>
      My work speaks far more eloquently than I do, and if people get
anything at all out of the tracks, whether it's what I intended or
not, then that's great. But I don't care if people like me or not -- I
am what I am, I do the best I can, and that's what matters.
    </p>
      <author>Kate Bush</author>
      <source>In an interview in <cite>Details</cite> magazine, March 1994</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q760" date="1993">
    <p>
      <em>Cyberspace</em>, n.: The juncture of digital information and
human perception, the "matrix" of civilization where banks exchange
money (credit) and information seekers navigate layers of data stored
and represented in virtual space. Buildings in cyberspace may have
more dimensions than physical buildings do, and cyberspace may reflect
different laws of existence. It has been said that cyberspace is where
you are when you are having a phone conversation or where your ATM
money exists. It is where electronic mail travels and it resembles the
Toontown in the movie <cite>Who Framed Roger Rabbit?</cite>
    </p>
      <author>Michael Heim</author>
      <source>From the glossary of <cite>The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality</cite></source>
  </quotation>

  <quotation date="2017-05-12"><p>
    Anarcho-capitalism is all fun and games until you discover you're
    not really a wolf among the sheep.
</p><author>Kenneth Rapp</author>
<source>From a comment thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324081</source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q761" date="1999-05-10">
    <p>
      It makes more sense to distinguish <em>different kinds</em> of
causes, rather than caused versus uncaused actions, or causes we know
versus causes we don't. If we find out somebody committed assault
because physiologically, his brain made the victim look like a leaping
tiger, then we don't punish him. If we find he did it because
physiologically, he's a jerk, then we do.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Filseth</author>
      <source>In a post to <cite>alt.atheism.moderated</cite>, 10 May 1999</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q762">
    <p>
      Now you've gone and changed the question, from "what will we be
using" to "what will be possible?" Although many people will do
something for no reason other than that it's possible, most will still
be running the same old word processing, spreadsheet, and database
applications. What will be possible, though, is that outfits like
Microsoft will be able to write even more bloated code than they do
now, full of more dazzling but otherwise useless bells and whistles
that will seduce users into spending even more money they don't have
for capabilities they don't need. And the programs will become so
complex that the consulting and training industries will continue to
grow, while puzzled users will scratch their heads and wonder why
things couldn't be simpler.
    </p>
      <author>Charlie Gibbs</author>
      <source>On computer applications in the year 2001, In <cite>alt.folklore.computers</cite>, 16/03/94.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q763">
    <p>
      Alex Johnson of the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service reports
that soon afterward, Dave Barry admitted to hacking Ms. [Tonya]
Harding's e-mail account himself. Mr. Barry vigorously defended his
actions. saying that reporters do such things "... all the time." Mr.
Barry's editor at the Miami Herald also defended Mr. Barry's actions,
likening them to watching the dismemberment of chickens on television.
    </p>
      <author>CPSR Newsletter</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q764">
    <p>
      Man is a small thing, and the night is very large and full of
wonders.
    </p>
      <author>Lord Dunsany</author>
      <source><cite>The Laughter of the Gods</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q765">
    <p>
      If you want to write software that's fast or portable or well
structured, despite years of evolution, you have to care about it and
put effort into it. It's easy to be sloppy, but it comes back to haunt
you. The only way to make something fast is to care about performance
from the beginning and put real effort into getting it. The only way
to keep the code clean and maintainable is to constantly put effort
into that aspect of it. Resist the temptation to make quick fixes. Or
if a quick fix just has to be done for some reason, make a point of
going back and doing it right. These things do not happen
automatically and they won't happen if you don't care about them. The
main reason why a lot of software today is bloated and complicated and
obscure and buggy is that people don't care. They may care in the
sense that if you ask them they say, "Yes, we care," but the fact is
they don't put any effort into it. They don't care enough to work on
it.
    </p>
      <author>Henry Spencer</author>
      <source>Quoted in <cite>Amateur Computerist</cite> vol. 5 no. 1/2</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q766">
    <p>
      The notion that an anonymous posting needs to be traceable to
its source is a product of the unification of the old time
conservative desire to squelch free speech with the new fangled
politically correct liberal desire to squelch free speech.
    </p>
      <author>Perry E. Metzger</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q767">
    <p>
      I hope you'll forgive me for not bothering to consult the actual
Windoze help pages for the program. If this were Unix and manpages, I
would expect and deserve criticism for not RTFMing, but Windoze help
without fail exhausts my patience with page after hypertext page
explaining that I should click on the "open file" button to open a
file, and never answering any real questions that anyone above sea
slug on the neuron count scale would really ask.
    </p>
      <author>Benjamin Ketcham</author>
      <source>In <cite>comp.os.unix.advocacy</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q768">
    <p>
      There's an old story about the person who wished his computer
were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I
no longer know how to use my telephone.
    </p>
      <author>Bjarne Stroustrup</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q769">
    <p>
      The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should
look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four
rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary
about that person.
    </p>
      <author>P.J. O'Rourke</author>
      <source><cite>Give War a Chance</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q770">
    <p>
      Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of
nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith
comforts the software engineer.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fred_Brooks">Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.</author>
      <source>"No Silver Bullet", <cite>IEEE Computer</cite>, April 1987</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q771">
    <p>
      C++ is too complicated. At the moment, it's impossible for me to
write portable code that I believe would work on lots of different
systems, unless I avoid all exotic features. Whenever the C++ language
designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some
problem, they said "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too
baroque for my taste.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Donald Knuth">Donald E. Knuth</author>
      <source>In a Computer Literacy Bookshops interview.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q772" date="1995">
    <p>
      "That's the duty of the old," said the Librarian, "to be anxious
on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the
anxiety of the old."
    </p>
      <author>Philip Pullman</author>
      <source><cite>The Golden Compass</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q773">
    <p>
      Also, you have to understand...when I was a very young kid, I
went to visit my grandfather's grave. My grandfather was an alcoholic
who died in the gutter. Literally. And was buried in a pauper's grave.
Ever been to a pauper's grave? Lead pipe. Brass number. You check the
roster to find out who's buried. No name, no date. He passed through
his life without leaving footprints. It terrified me beyond the
capacity of words to convey to you.
    </p>
      <author>J. Michael Straczynski</author>
      <source>In <cite>rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q774" date="1973">
    <p>
      "The journey is long, the end uncertain, and there is more dark
along the way than light, but you can whistle. Come with me by the
wall of the great tombyards of all time which lie a billion years
ahead. What shall we whistle as we stroll in our rocket, hoping to
make it by the vast darkness where shadows wait to seize and keep us?
    </p>
    <p>
      "Follow me.
    </p>
    <p>
      "I know a tune.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Here...<em>listen.</em>"
    </p>
      <author>Ray Bradbury</author>
      <source><cite>Mars and the Mind of Man</cite></source>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2021"><p>proluctance: n.: the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you've been looking forward to -- opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who's finally back in town, reading a new book from your favorite author -- perpetually waiting around for the right state of mind, stretching out the bliss of anticipation as long as you can.
</p><author>John Koenig</author>
<source rdf:resource="https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows"><cite>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q775">
    <p>
      To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a
viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec. (Start by
lowering your IQ about 15 points.)
    </p>
      <author>J. Michael Straczynski</author>
      <source>In <cite>rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q776">
    <p>
      . . . the Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch
with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most
esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and
poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any
notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore
what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows
in return ignore and insult them.
    </p>
      <author>C.S. Lewis</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q777">
    <p>
      Hoarders can get power over you by making programs proprietary
because you feeling that you need the programs. The more you get used
to feeling you need them, the harder it is to refuse demands. That's
why using proprietary programs like Mathematica is not good for you:
it trains you to a habit of helplessness.
    </p>
    <p>
      The way make yourself immune to the owners' power is to say, "I
don't need this program. And with those conditions, I don't want it."
    </p>
      <author>Richard M. Stallman</author>
      <source>In <cite>gnu.misc.discuss</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q778">
    <p>
      So it was with a morbid curiosity that I got a hold of (without
paying) Christopher Priest's book on the long-awaited <cite>The Last
Dangerous Visions</cite>. I expected it to be about the same caliber
as the recent wave of harassment against [Harlan] Ellison, enacted
mainly by Charles Platt and Gary Groth; two entities recognizable as
human beings solely through a vague fealty to bilateral symmetry.
    </p>
      <author>Brian Siano</author>
      <source>In <cite>rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q779">
    <p>
      When I was 15, we had one of those things where you do a battery
of tests and then they bring a careers advisor in to talk to you about
careers, and the careers advisor said, "What do you want to do?" And I
said, "I want to write American comics." And there was a very, very,
very long pause. And then he said, "Well, how do you go about doing
that?" And I said, "Well, you're the careers advisor, I thought you
were gonna tell me." And there was another really, really, really long
pause, and then he looked at me rather desperately and said, "Have you
ever thought about accountancy?"
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
      <source>In a radio interview, on "To The Best Of Our Knowledge", broadcast May 31, 1995.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q780">
    <p>
      The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is
that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer
language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than
others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not
expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and
furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Vixie</author>
      <source>In <cite>comp.lang.modula3</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q781">
    <p>
      All governments, without exception, lie all the time, on every
subject. They lie constantly, impenitently, and unashamedly. Nothing
that any government ever says, at any time, can be assumed to be true.
The sooner you recognize this fact, the easier and more pleasant your
life will become.
    </p>
      <author>I.F. Stone</author>
      <source>Quoted from memory by Charles Haines, in a letter to the editor of the <cite>Toronto Globe and Mail</cite>, Oct. 28, 1995</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q782">
    <p>
      Only the person who has been trained to think can be trusted to
feel.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ambrose_Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q783">
    <p>
      I was always brought up to believe that language is the master,
you are the servant. I was taught to believe that language is almost
out of control and you can barely hold on to it.
    </p>
      <author>Eric McCormack</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q784">
    <p>
      The record demonstrates that the growth of the Internet has been
and continues to be phenomenal. As a matter of constitutional
tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that
governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to
interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The
interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society
outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
    </p>
      <author>From the US Supreme Court's decision overturning the CDA</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q785">
    <p>
      The biggest difference between Heaven's Gate and mainstream
Christianity is that the Heaven's Gate people never tried to brainwash
my kids.
    </p>
      <author>Rev. Ivan Stang</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q786">
    <p>
      When a person spends a lot of time using a computer system, the
configuration of that computer system becomes the city that he lives
in. Just as the way our houses and furniture are laid out, determines
what it's like for us to live among them, so does the computer system
that we use, and if we can't change the computer system that we use to
suit us, then our lives are really under the control of others. And a
person who sees this becomes in a certain way demoralized: ``It's no
use trying to change those things, they're always going to be bad. No
point even hassling it. I'll just put in my time and ... when it's
over I'll go away and try not to think about it any more''.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Stallman</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q787">
    <p>
      One of my first memories is of my father calling excitedly to
say, "Look". He was looking up at the sky. I couldn't see what I was
to look at. Then he said, "Listen", and I heard this peculiar sort of
sound, very distant. He kept saying, "Look higher, look higher", and I
did. Then I saw my first skein of geese and heard their call. He took
my hand and said to me, "Those are the whales of the sky."
    </p>
      <author>Jeannette Haien</author>
      <source>Quoted in <cite>A World Of Ideas II</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q788">
    <p>
      ... in wondering why free software is so good these days it
occured to me that the propagation of free software is one gigantic
artificial life evolution experiment, but the metaphor isn't perfect.
Programs are thrown out into the harsh environment, and the bad ones
die. The good ones adapt rapidly and become very robust in short
order. The only problem with the metaphor is that the process isn't
random at all. Python <em>chooses</em> to include Tk's genes; Linux
decides to make itself more suitable for symbiosis with X, etcetera.
Free software is artificial life, but better.
    </p>
      <author>Aaron Watters (comp.lang.python, 29 Sep 1994)</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q789">
    <p>
      The brain thinks not by adding two and two to make four, but
like a sheet of wet paper on which drops of watercolour paints are
being splashed, merging into unforeseen configurations.
    </p>
      <author>Guy Claxton</author>
      <source><cite>Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q790">
    <p>
      Consumers are like roaches -- you spray them and they get immune
after a while.
    </p>
      <author>David Lubars</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q791">
    <p>
      A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long
known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears,
and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered
muffins.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Lamb">Charles Lamb</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q792">
    <p>
      We have found to our horror that computer programs live on for
decades, long after the machines and compilers that caused their
misshape have died. We thus live in the purgatory created by our
hackerish enthusiasm.
    </p>
    <p>
      But the tight feedback mechanism between hardware/compiler
optimizations and the software 'literature' ensures that the poor
programming styles of the past will persist (because they are
'efficient' on machines optimized for these poor programming styles)
and will leave little room for optimizing better styles.
    </p>
    <p>
      We must force ourselves to break out of this cycle by writing
excellent programs, and then molding compilers and machines to make
these programs efficient, rather than vice versa. Excellent programs
do not happen by accident, but require very hard work. We must
proactively seek elegance, as elegance will not find us on its own.
    </p>
      <author>Henry Baker</author>
      <source>"Garbage In/Garbage Out: When Bad Programs Happen to Good People"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q793" date="2004">
    <p>
      Just as poetry strives to resolve the tension between form and
meaning, so programming must resolve the conflict between
intelligibility and concision.
    </p>
      <author>Emanuel Derman</author>
      <source><cite>My Life as a Quant</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q794">
    <p>
      Teaching is the process of curing the amnesia into which every
generation is born. Teaching is the opposite of Alzheimer's disease in
that it builds memory and consciousness, rather than stealing them.
The memory is collective--the history of the human race, of Western
thought and values, of this nation's experience, of a family's
past--but it all contributes to the identity of the individual who
receives it.
    </p>
      <author>William Thorsell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q795">
    <p>
      Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing
extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either
we use those languages, or we remain mute.
    </p>
      <author>J.G. Ballard</author>
      <source>From the introduction to <cite>Crash</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q796">
    <p>
      Intelligence is derived from two words--inter and legere --
inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose.' An intelligent
person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between.' He
knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede
fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than
cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and
that truth has more virtue than ignorance.
    </p>
      <author>J. Martin Klotsche</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q797">
    <p>
      The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to
learn it really doesn't matter.
    </p>
      <author>George Edwin Howes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q798">
    <p>
      Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have
been safely embedded and preserved. . . . Words convey the mental
treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with
this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in
which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life
have sunk into oblivion.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Trench</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q799">
    <p>
      Upon my desk lies <cite>Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in
the Digital Age</cite>, a title nearly as offensive in concept as it is in
execution. Its creators somehow managed to forsake the Wired "my brain
is melting" color scheme, but its lime green pages, wire binding, and
flourescent orange cardboard casing embody the same principle of flash
over utility.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Phillips</author>
      <source>http://www.go2net.com/internet/sequitur/1997/01/27/body.html</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q800">
    <p>
      The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has
built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of it, but in his
admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on
top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be
different from his, they are none the less legitimate.
    </p>
      <author>E.J. Pratt</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q801">
    <p>
      Classical-rock is like things done by Deep Purple or ELP, where
the band played a rock thing and then the orchestra did a pathetic
classic-like thing, ... I hate any connection between me and that. And
I also hate New Age. That term used to mean 'Hair' and the Age of
Aquarius. Now it's stuff for getting your hair done and relaxing. It's
just <em>boring</em>... I'm just me...
Pythonesque-world-classical-folk-whatever.
    </p>
      <author>Mike Oldfield</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q802">
    <p>
      Persichetti could do everything and do it well, but you didn't
really care.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steve_Reich">Steve Reich</author>
      <source>On his former composition teacher Vincent Persichetti</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q803">
    <p>
      The plural of anecdote is not data.
    </p>
      <author>Roger Brinner</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q804">
    <p>
      Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q805">
    <p>
      There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled
by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the
text. The world is one of those books.
    </p>
      <author>George Santayana</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q806">
    <p>
      The late twentieth century has become a new collector's age, a
vast resurgence of the campy spirit that led Walpole to cram
Strawberry Hill with medieval garbage. The future, should there be
one, will inherit from the twentieth century far more junk that it can
have any use for; it will also, very likely, inherit no standards for
distinguishing junk from nonjunk.
    </p>
      <author>Walter Kendrick</author>
      <source><cite>The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years Of Scary Entertainment</cite></source>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2007"><p>
  Every culture faces the same fundamental challenges.  Men and women
  come together, children are brought into the world, nurtured and
  sheltered; elders are led into the realm of death as fearlessly as
  the imagination allows. To be human is to know the terror and
  splendour of a night sky, the crush of storms, the blood cries of
  enemies sweeping in with the dawn.   Such is our common experience.
  To bring order to chaos, sense to sensation, we have created rules,
  which cross-culturally are remarkable in their consistency. ... Yet
  within this common fabric, this cloak of humanity, lie the
  individual threads of specific and highly specialized ways of life,
  distinct cultures, each with its unique and wondrous dream of the
  Earth.  Unravelling the cloth and holding the strands to the light
  is the practice and contribution of ethnography.
</p><author>Wade Davis</author>
<source><cite>Light at the Edge of the World</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation date="2010-05-27"><p>
  People my age are products of the culture of the capital-F Future.
  The younger you are, the less you are a product of that.
  If you're fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort
  of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our
  increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory.   I also suspect
  that you don't know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot
  know one's culture.
  </p><p>
  The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or
  radioactive postnuclear wasteland, is gone.   Ahead of us, there is
  merely... more stuff. Events.  Some tending to the crystalline, some
  to the wasteland-y.  Stuff: the mixed bag of the quotidian.
</p><author>William Gibson</author>
<source>From a talk at Book Expo, included in
  <cite>Distrust That Particular Flavor</cite> (2012)</source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q807">
    <p>
      The best mathematicians either don't get on boards and panels or
don't do any work if they are appointed.
    </p>
      <author>Ralph P. Boas, Jr.</author>
      <source>Quoted in <cite>More Mathematical People</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q808">
    <p>
      From age eight until I was sixteen, I used to sit in the corner
and listen to the smart-alec intellectuals of the 1920's expounding. I
learned a lot but said little. After a while I began to suspect that
they really didn't know what they were talking about. Perhaps this
explains why to this day I can never get excited about philosophical
ideas.
    </p>
      <author>George B. Dantzig</author>
      <source>Quoted in <cite>More Mathematical People</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q809">
    <p>
      Free software, to me, means the ability of programmers to form a
community within which they can speak the same language, which I hope
will be the language of <em>programming</em>, not each of the many
dialects we use.
    </p>
      <author>Erik Naggum</author>
      <source>In <cite>gnu.misc.discuss</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q810">
    <p>
      Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to
find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy
is knowing exactly who one is -- and still not caring.
    </p>
      <author>Tom Robbins</author>
      <source><cite>Another Roadside Attraction</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q811">
    <p>
      I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good
idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an
idea that solves <em>several</em> things at the same time. The mark of
good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it
<em>also</em> does something that you didn't start out wanting.
    </p>
      <author>Linus Torvalds</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q812">
    <p>
      It's a unification of a Pythagorean sense of perfection which in
its mathematical exactitude recalls what is divine. We realize that
the world has been ordained, that it is ordered, that it does make
sense, that it has been thought of, and behind every imperfect form
that we see, there is a perfect form that has been badly imitated in
our mortal world.
    </p>
      <author>Peter Sellars</author>
      <source>On music, quoted in <cite>A World Of Ideas II</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q813">
    <p>
      Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as
sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause
suspicion rather than admiration.
    </p>
      <author>Niklaus Wirth</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q814">
    <p>
      We have not, however, passed out of the Net's magic period. It's
still more potent to say, of some bit of information, "I found it on
the Internet," than to say, "I read it in a book." Case in point: this
newspaper recently began publishing, at the bottom of news stories,
Internet addresses deemed in some way to be relevant to the subject.
Can anyone remember <cite>The Globe</cite> or any other daily paper
showing such bibliographic regard for books?
    </p>
      <author>Robert Everett-Green</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q815" date="2006">
    <p>
      I don't believe anyone can enjoy living in this world unless he
can accept its imperfection. He must know and admit that he is
imperfect, that all other mortals are imperfect, that it is childish
to allow these imperfections to destroy all his hope and all his
desire to live. Nature is older than man, and she is still far from
perfect. Her summers do not always start promptly on June 21. Her bugs
and beetles and other insects often go beyond her obvious intentions,
devouring the leaves and buds with which she has adorned her
countryside. After the land has remained too dry for too long, she
sends relieving rains. But frequently they come in torrents so violent
that they do more harm than good. Over the years, however, nature
keeps going on in her imperfect way, and the result -- in spite of her
many mistakes -- is a continuing miracle. It would be folly for an
individual to seek to do better -- to do better than to go on in his
own imperfect way, making his mistakes, riding out the rough and
bewildering, exciting and beautiful storm of life until the day he
dies.
    </p>
      <author>Oscar Hammerstein II</author>
      <source>"Happy Talk", in <cite>This I Believe</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q816">
    <p>
      Ideas are our only truly renewable resource.
    </p>
      <author>Joel Hodgson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q817" date="2009">
    <p>
      We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing,
that "our most precious resource is our children". But we have plenty
of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can
always make more. The true scarcity we face is of practicing adults,
of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives
and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in
this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know
their condition is universal, is shared. You bring your little story
to the workshop, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't; and
then you're gone, and it's time for somebody else to have the floor.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michael_Chabon">Michael Chabon</author>
      <source>From "Cosmodemonic", in <cite>Manhood for Amateurs</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q818" date="1987">
    <p>
      There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the
bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with an unexpected
fearfulness that he saw how the books stretched away into the
darkness. They seemed to expand as soon as they reached the shadows,
creating some dark world where there was no beginning and no end, no
story, no meaning. And if you crossed the threshold into that world,
you would be surrounded by words; you would crush them beneath your
feet, you would knock against them with your head and arms, but if you
tried to grasp them they would melt away. Philip did not dare turn his
back upon these books. Not yet. It was almost, he thought, as if they
had been speaking to each other while he slept.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Ackroyd">Peter Ackroyd</author>
      <source><cite>Chatterton</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q819">
    <p>
      The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge
city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant
Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living -- when you come
down you may have some doubts.
    </p>
      <author>Gyorgy Kepes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q820" date="1922">
    <p>
      Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as
many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an
eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
    </p>
      <author>Emily Post</author>
      <source><cite>Etiquette</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q821">
    <p>
      There is only <em>one</em> Education, and it has only
<em>one</em> goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an
adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or
Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is <em>not</em>
education, and it has some <em>different</em> goal. The very existence
of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their
proponents cannot bring about <em>what they want</em> in a mind that
is free. An "education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so
must "teach" by homily and precept in the service of <em>these</em>
feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than <em>those</em>, is pure
and unmistakable tyranny.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Mitchell</author>
      <source><cite>The Underground Grammarian</cite>, September 1982.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q822">
    <p>
      Many accounts over the past centuries suggest that the blood of
the supposed revenant is an apotropaic against attacks by revenants. .
. . Indeed, Bargheer provides a recipe: in Pomerania it was
recommended that one dip part of the shroud in the blood of the
revenant, leach the blood out into brandy, and drink the mixture to
protect oneself against revenants. Whether or not vampires drank the
blood of human beings, we have most persuasive evidence that human
beings have drunk the blood of vampires.
    </p>
      <author>Paul Barber</author>
      <source><cite>Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q823">
    <p>
      Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying
glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest
speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated
and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently
it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our
range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not
designed for our benefit.
    </p>
      <author>Rudolf Arnheim</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation date=""><p>
    A stupid man stays awake all night<br/>
    Pondering his problems:<br/>
    He's worn out when the morning comes<br/>
    And whatever was, still is.
  </p><author></author>
  <source>Hávamál, translated by Patricia Terry.</source>
  <note><p>Cited in chapter 14 of <cite>Losing It</cite>, by William Ian Miller.  According to Miller, the last line should be even harsher: "and everything is as miserable as it was."</p></note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q824">
    <p>
      The four points of the compass are logic, knowledge, wisdom, and
the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon
it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit
to the unknown, but never to the unknowable.
    </p>
      <author>Roger Zelazny</author>
      <source><cite>Lord of Light</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q825">
    <p>
      W.V.O. Quine has been one of the most ruthless of recent
appliers of this principle [Ockham's razor.] I recall an exchange in
print (a fest-schrift, around 1980) where someone quoted Shakespeare's
"There are more things on heaven and earth, than are dreamed of in
your philosophy" at Quine. Quine responded something like, "Possibly,
but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than
are in heaven and earth."
    </p>
      <author>David Lyndes</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q826" date="1930-11-03">
    <p>
      ... an isolated person requires correspondence as a means of
seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the
dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the
writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe
the publick at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the
force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his
discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent
exchange of ideas in epistolary form.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._P._Lovecraft">H.P. Lovecraft</author>
      <source>In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, 3 Nov 1930</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q827">
    <p>
      I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer,
pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting,
the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we
heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are
aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national
self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic
place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us --
then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the
controls.
    </p>
    <p>
      The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carl_Sagan">Carl Sagan</author>
      <source><cite>The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q828">
    <p>
      Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to
understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all
sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of
staving off chaos.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q829">
    <p>
      During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The
Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the
Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800
years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set
about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day
during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned
whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world
clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no
such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether
to laugh or to cry.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</author>
      <source><cite>Europe and Elsewhere</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q830" date="1797-10-16">
    <p>
      ... from my early reading of fairy tales and genii etc. etc. my
mind had been <em>habituated to the Vast</em> and I never regarded
my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief. . . .
Should children be permitted to read romances, and relations of giants
and magicians and genii? I know all that has been said against it; but
I have formed my faith in the affirmative. I know no other way of
giving the mind a love of the Great and the Whole.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</author>
      <source>From a letter to Thomas Poole</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q831">
    <p>
      True guidebooks should lead you to things and leave you at the
door, lists of places where certain kinds of experiences may be had.
If you are reading you cannot see, and the other way around. Travelers
should read only after dark.
    </p>
      <author>Robert Harbison</author>
      <source><cite>Eccentric Spaces</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q832">
    <p>
      I was walking along Park Avenue and passed a blind man with a
cup. I put a quarter in it, as I always do, and walked on and then
words went through my head--"dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of
noon"--and then I looked at my watch and it was exactly noon and I
couldn't help it; right in the middle of the street I began to cry.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</author>
      <source>In an unpublished letter, quoted in <cite>The Joy of Writing</cite>.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q833">
    <p>
      Don't forget, and don't let your reader forget, that the small
world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn't
ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all of its
remaining inhabitants will pick up the broken fragments of their
lives, and carry on.
    </p>
      <author>Joseph Hansen</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q834" date="1998-05-01">
    <p>
      It is in the places where history was made that history is most
sorely felt.
    </p>
      <author>Jeffrey C. Jacobs</author>
    <note>
      <p>
        Said to me in conversation, May 1, 1998
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2006"><p>The past does not roll out like a motorway
building project.  People often do not notice what is going on -- they
are too tired, too old, too young, too stupid, looking in the other
direction.  Inevitably history becomes what the historian chooses to
point out.  History is also, of course, hindsight -- each event lived
then as a set of choices blurred by prejudice, greed, panic and habit
tidied into a plausible sequence.
</p><author>Simon Winder</author>
<source><cite>The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into The Disturbing World of James Bond</cite></source>
</quotation>
  <quotation id="q835">
    <p>
      The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a
distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the
gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q836">
    <p>
      The cop named Joe took it and turned it over. "What is it?" he
asked me. "It's an old zither our guinea pig used to sleep on," I
said. It was true that a guinea pig we once had would never sleep
anywhere except on the zither, but I should never have said so. Joe
and the other cop looked at me a long time. They put the zither back
on the shelf.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"The Night the Ghost Got In", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q837">
    <p>
      When I consider how little of a rarity children are, -- that
every street and blind alley swarms with them, -- that the poorest
people commonly have them in most abundance, -- that there are few
marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains, --
how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their
parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace,
the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride
there can possibly be in having them. If they were young phoenixes,
indeed, that were born but one in a year, there might be a pretext.
But when they are so common --
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Lamb">Charles Lamb</author>
      <source>"A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q838">
    <p>
      There are at least three themes which are utterly taboo as far
as most American publishers are concerned. The two others are: a
Negro-White marriage which is a complete and glorious success
resulting in lots of children and grandchildren; and the total atheist
who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of
106.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</author>
      <source>Writing in defence of his novel <cite>Lolita</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q839" date="1998-09-19">
    <p>
      It's easy to understand a fundamentalist world. It's just
impossible to live in one.
    </p>
      <author>Ian Brown</author>
      <source>In a review of the Starr report in the Globe &amp; Mail, Sept. 19 1998</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q840">
    <p>
      The spectator sport in Canada is hockey, not the sexual
activities of our leaders. ... The Canadian people aren't nearly as
starry-eyed in believing politicians are perfect. They hold a more
healthy notion of their politicians as human beings.
    </p>
      <author>Alexa McDonough</author>
      <source>Quoted in the Globe &amp; Mail, 09/19/1998</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q841">
    <p>
      In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial
Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system
software, we called ourselves hackers. We were not breaking any laws,
at least not in doing the hacking we were paid to do. We were
developing software and we were having fun. Hacking refers to the
spirit of fun in which we were developing software. The hacker ethic
refers to the feelings of right and wrong, to the ethical ideas this
community of people had -- that knowledge should be shared with other
people who can benefit from it, and that important resources should be
utilized rather than wasted.
    </p>
      <author>Richard Stallman</author>
      <source>Quoted in MEME 2.04</source>
  </quotation>

  <quotation id="q842">
    <p>
      I do not suppose that a Man loses his Time, who is not engaged
in publick Affairs, or in an illustrious Course of Action. On the
contrary, I believe our Hours may very often be more profitably laid
out in such Transactions as make no Figure in the World, than in such
as are apt to draw upon them the Attention of Mankind. One may become
wiser and better by several Methods of Employing one's self in Secrecy
and Silence, and do what is laudable without Noise or Ostentation.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joseph_Addison">Joseph Addison</author>
      <source>In the Spectator for March 4, 1712</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q843" date="1967">
    <p>
      No matter what we choose to say of it, Canada is a whole series
of accidents. If it should expire in its present form the world would
survive and so, almost certainly, would Canada's separate parts. I
don't expect my children to suffer much if Quebec should withdraw or
Canada withdraw from Quebec. ... Yet it's been a lovely place to grow
up in, whether it was an accident or not.
    </p>
      <author>Ralph Allen</author>
      <source><cite>The Man from Oxbow: The Best of Ralph Allen</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q844">
    <p>
      To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word,
is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their
nature. The little wheels of their invention are set in motion by the
damp hand of melancholy.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"Preface to A Life", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q845">
    <p>
      A doctor saves lives -- it's up to people to create lives that
are worth saving.
    </p>
      <author>Philip Gold</author>
      <source>In <cite>Maclean's</cite>, Nov. 1974</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q846" date="1960">
    <p>
      Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an
act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs
you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when
sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf
and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at
seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the
other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a
sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.
    </p>
      <author>Brian Moore</author>
      <source><cite>The Luck of Ginger Coffey</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q847" date="1983-03-29">
    <p>
      So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words
to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life, for there is
none, or any wisdom except the passionate plea of caring ... Try to
feel, in your heart's core, the reality of others. This is the most
painful thing in the world, probably, and the most necessary. In times
of personal adversity, know that you are not alone. Know that although
in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and
irreplaceable, as are all of your fellow humans everywhere in the
world. Know that your commitment is above all to life itself.
    </p>
    <author>Margaret Laurence</author>
    <source>From an address to the Trent University Philosophy Society</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q848">
    <p>
      Users should know that the system exists because of the
idealistic vision of the GNU Project. Users should know that we worked
for years towards this goal, at a time when most people said it was
impossible and foolish. Then they will see that idealism is sometimes
the only way to achieve an important practical result. Some of them
will take this idealism seriously, and come to value their freedom
strongly enough to help defend it when it is threatened. And that is
what our community needs more than anything else.
    </p>
      <author>Richard M. Stallman</author>
      <source>On the linux-kernel mailing list, 6 Apr 1999</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q849">
    <p>
      "Bime by I go hunt grotches in de voods." If you are susceptible
to such things, it is not difficult to visualize grotches. They
fluttered into my mind: ugly little creatures, about the size of
whippoorwills, only covered with blood and honey and the scrapings of
church bells.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"The Black Magic of Barney Haller", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q850">
    <p>
      In this manner an astounding mass of abstruse erudition,
historical precedent, juridical texts, and oral testimony, drawn
indiscriminately from Europe and Asia, was heaped and piled up over
every point, until the real issue and its true aspect lay lost, hid,
and shrivelled like a mummy under a huge pyramid. The dreary and flat
waste of the voluminous record is studded here and there by these
monuments of useless labour set up against each other by the
indefatigable energy of the disputants.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Alfred Lyall</author>
      <source>From the section on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, in <cite>Notable Historical Trials</cite>, vol. 3</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q851" date="1917">
    <p>
      What men, in their imbecility, constantly mistake for a
deficiency of intelligence in women is merely an incapacity for
mastering small and trivial tricks. A man thinks that he is more
intelligent than his wife because he can add up figures more
accurately and because he understands the lingo of the stock market,
and follows the doings of political mountebanks, and knows the
minutiae of some sordid and degrading business or profession, say soap
selling or the law. But these puerile talents are not really signs of
intelligence; they are merely accomplishments, and they differ only in
degree from the accomplishments of a trained chimpanzee.
    </p>
    <p>
      The truth is that the capacity for mastering them is the sign of
a petty mind, and Havelock Ellis, in his great study of English
genius, shows that men of genius almost invariably lack it. One could
not think of Shakespeare or Goethe or Beethoven multiplying 3,456,754
by 79,999 without making a mistake, nor could one think of them
remembering the price of this or that stock last July, or the number
of beans in a pound, or the freight rate on steel beams from Akron,
Ohio, to Newport News, or concerning themselves about the cost of
producing a stick of chewing gum, or the pay of street car conductors,
or the credit of some obscure shopkeeper in Memphis, Tenn. Such
idiotic concerns are beneath the dignity of first-rate minds.
    </p>
    <p>
      That women always try to evade them -- that they have little
capacity for the childish complexity of tricks upon which men base
their so-called business and professional skill and cunning -- this is
but one more proof of their intellectual aristocracy. They are not
stumped by such enterprises because they are difficult, but because
they are trivial.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/H._L._Mencken">H. L. Mencken</author>
      <source>"Meditations on the Fair"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q852" date="1994">
    <p>
      I fantasized that finally not being tied down to a dependent
would give my spontaneous nature a chance to grow and flower. Then I
realized that not only didn't I have much of a spontaneous nature but
that the reason I wasn't partaking of the constant barrage of
interesting activities and social events all around me was because I
was a lazy sloth.
    </p>
      <author>Merrill Markoe</author>
      <source>"Pets and the Single Girl", in <cite>How to Be Hap-Hap-Happy Like Me</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q853" date="2007-03-15">
    <p>
      Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes
the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the
Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong.
Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics
-- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.
    </p>
    <p>
      Everything of value that people get from religion can be had
more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence.
The rest is self-deception, set to music.
    </p>
      <author>Sam Harris</author>
      <source>In an LA Times op-ed, "God's Dupes: Moderate believers give cover to religious fanatics -- and are every bit as delusional"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q854" date="1997">
    <p>
      When I left my boxed township of Illinois farmland to attend my
dad's alma mater in the lurid jutting Berkshires of western
Massachusetts, I all of a sudden developed a jones for mathematics.
I'm starting to see why this was so. College math evokes and catharts
a Midwesterner's sickness for home. I'd grown up inside vectors, lines
and lines athwart lines, grids -- and, on the scale of horizons, broad
curving lines of geographic force, the weird topographical drain-swirl
of a whole lot of ice-ironed land that sits and spins atop plates. The
area behind and below these broad curves at the seam of land and sky I
could plot by eye way before I came to know infinitesimals as
easements, an integral as schema. Math at a hilly Eastern school was
like waking up; it dismantled memory and put it in light. Calculus
was, quite literally, child's play.
    </p>
      <author>David Foster Wallace</author>
      <source>"Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", in <cite>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q855" date="1986">
    <p>
      Waves wash off the peach blossoms, / wind twirls catkins down; /
can spring colors possibly be allowed to stay? / Our four eyes stare
at each other; / our resentments are concealed. / Gold Tooth Road, /
Gold Horse Road -- / places for broken-hearted goodbyes.
    </p>
    <p>
      The brown sparrow and the dragonfly / can't perch on the same
tree. / The purple swallow and the shrike / fly off in opposite
directions. / A new resentment starts again just as in the past; / she
is wrong, / I am wrong, / in lonely inn beneath wild mountains / we
grieve at setting sun.
    </p>
      <author>Yang Shen</author>
      <source>Translated by Jonathan Chaves in <cite>The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q856">
    <p>
      It makes for happiness to be what you can, when you cannot be
what you would.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Girolamo_Cardano">Girolamo Cardano</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q857" date="1994">
    <p>
      It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold
out a hand to someone different, to listen, and to attempt to
increase, even by a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity
in the world. But it is careless to do so without remembering how
previous efforts have failed, and how it has never been possible to
predict for certain how a human being will behave. History, with its
endless procession of passers-by, most of whose encounters have been
missed opportunities, has so far been largely a chronicle of ability
gone to waste. But next time two people meet, the result could be
different. That is the origin of anxiety, but also of hope, and hope
is the origin of humanity.
    </p>
      <author>Theodore Zeldin</author>
      <source><cite>An Intimate History of Humanity</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q858" date="1995">
    <p>
      Serafina Pekkala considered, and then said, "Perhaps we don't
mean the same thing by choice, Mr Scoresby. Witches own nothing, so
we're not interested in preserving value or making profits, and as for
the choice between one thing and another, when you live for many
hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. We
have different needs. You have to repair your balloon and keep it in
good condition, and that takes time and trouble, I see that; but for
us to fly, all we have to do is tear off a branch of cloud-pine; any
will do, and there are plenty more. We don't feel cold, so we need no
warm clothes. We have no means of exchange apart from mutual aid. If a
witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is
a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in
deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any
notion of honour, as bears do, for instance. An insult to a bear is a
deadly thing. To us... inconceivable. How could you insult a witch?
What would it matter if you did?"
    </p>
      <author>Philip Pullman</author>
      <source><cite>The Golden Compass</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q859" date="1996">
    <p>
      [On the interior of the human body] What economy of colors
there, compared to a tropical fish or a sunrise or even a pigeon's
neck -- dull red, indistinct gray buff, some splotches of green. But
what opulence of forms -- serpents, goblets, tapestries, coils,
pouches, conch shells, washboards, sheets, waves, curls, fountains of
translucent tissue.
    </p>
      <author>Charles LeBaron</author>
      <source>Quoted in Christine Quigley's <cite>The Corpse: A History</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q860" date="2000-10-03">
    <p>
      My father looked at me sternly with that look I would learn to
know so well, and said: "Justin, on n'attaque jamais l'individu. On
peut être en désaccord complet avec quelqu'un sans pour autant le
dénigrer." ... Parce que la simple tolérance n'est pas assez: il faut
un respect réel et profond de chaque être humain, peu importe ses
croyances, ses origines, et ses valeurs.
    </p>
      <author>Justin Trudeau</author>
      <source>In the eulogy for his father, Pierre Eliott Trudeau, 3 Oct 2000</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q861">
    <p>
      I am falling / Like a stone / Being born again / Into the sweet
morning fog.
    </p>
      <author>Kate Bush</author>
      <source>"The Morning Fog"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q862" date="1852">
    <p>
      A perilous trade, indeed, is that of a man who has to bring his
tears and laughter, his recollections, his personal griefs and joys,
his private thoughts and feelings to market to write them on paper,
and sell them for money. Does he exaggerate his grief, so as to get
his reader's pity for a false sensibility? feign indignation, so as to
establish a character for virtue; elaborate repartees, so that he may
pass for a wit; steal from other authors, and put down the theft to
the credit side of his own reputation for ingenuity and learning?
feign originality? affect benevolence or misanthropy? appeal to the
gallery gods with claptraps and vulgar baits to catch applause?
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Makepeace_Thackeray">W.M. Thackeray</author>
      <source><cite>The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q863">
    <p>
      See how ignorant you are of your own self; there is no land so
distant or so unknown to you, nor one about which you will so easily
believe falsehoods.
    </p>
      <author>Guigo</author>
      <source><cite>Meditations</cite> (circa 1110-1116)</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q864">
    <p>
      <foreign>Horas non numero nisi serenas</foreign> -- is the motto
of a sun-dial near Venice. There is a softness and a harmony in the
words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely
the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene." What a
bland and care-dispelling feeling! How the shadows seem to fade on the
dial-plate as the sky lours, and time presents only a blank unless as
its progress is marked by what is joyous, and all that is not happy
sinks into oblivion! What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to
take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles
and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and
gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and
letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How
different from the common art of self-tormenting!
    </p>
      <author>William Hazlitt</author>
      <source><cite>On a Sun-Dial</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q865" date="1999">
    <p>
      Annie and I had a deep-seated need to learn all the facts
surrounding Galen's murder. Although we were very different people in
many ways, we shared the same basic values. One of these was a belief
in the redemptive power of truth. If the truth didn't always set us
free, at least it kept us clean and made our lives less complicated.
    </p>
      <author>Gregory Gibson</author>
      <source><cite>Goneboy: A Walkabout</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q866" date="1997">
    <p>
      Agents, conclude Shneiderman, are crutches that don't work, mere
invitations to mediocrity. They are "things that think for people who
don't."
    </p>
      <author>Ben Shneiderman</author>
      <source>Quoted in Andrew Leonard's <cite>Bots</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q867">
    <p>
      How would it be if we remembered nothing / except the garbage
and the rubbishing. / The takeaways, the throwaways, the takeovers, /
The flakes and breakups, the disjected members / Scattered across the
landscape, across everything?
    </p>
    <p>
      Nothing stands up, nothing stands clear and whole, / Everything
bits and pieces, all gone stale, / All to the tip, the midden topped
up high / With what we used, with what we threw away: How would it be
if this was all we could feel?
    </p>
    <p>
      That will not be. Remembering, or feeling, / Or knowing anything
of anything. / Will be the last we know of all this stuff. / It will
be there for others, seekers of / Things that remain of us, who then
are nothing.
    </p>
    <author>Anthony Thwaite</author>
    <source>"Archaeology", from the collection <cite>A Move in the Weather</cite></source>
    <note>
      <p>
        Quoted in <cite>Archaeology</cite>, March/April 2001
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q868" date="1712">
    <p>
      A money lender. He serves you in the present tense; he lends you
in the conditional mood; keeps you in the subjunctive; and ruins you
in the future.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joseph_Addison">Joseph Addison</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q869" date="1954">
    <p>
      1. Nothing and no one is immune from criticism.
    </p>
    <p>
      2. Everyone involved in a controversy has an intellectual
responsibility to inform himself of the available facts.
    </p>
    <p>
      3. Criticism should be directed first to policies, and against
persons only when they are responsible for policies, and against their
motives or purposes only when there is some independent evidence of
their character.
    </p>
    <p>
      4. Because certain words are legally permissible, they are not
therefore morally permissible.
    </p>
    <p>
      5. Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they
legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
    </p>
    <p>
      6. Do not treat an opponent of a policy as if he were therefore
a personal enemy of the country or a concealed enemy of democracy.
    </p>
    <p>
      7. Since a good cause may be defended by bad arguments, after
answering the bad arguments for another's position present positive
evidence for your own.
    </p>
    <p>
      8. Do not hesitate to admit lack of knowledge or to suspend
judgment if evidence is not decisive either way.
    </p>
    <p>
      9. Only in pure logic and mathematics, not in human affairs, can
one demonstrate that something is strictly impossible. Because
something is logically possible, it is not therefore probable. "It is
not impossible" is a preface to an irrelevant statement about human
affairs. The question is always one of the balance of probabilities.
And the evidence for probabilities must include more than abstract
possibilities.
    </p>
    <p>
      10. The cardinal sin, when we are looking for truth of fact or
wisdom of policy, is refusal to discuss, or action which blocks
discussion.
    </p>
      <author>Sidney Hook</author>
      <source>Suggested rules for democratic discourse, from "The Ethics of Controversy"</source>
  </quotation>

<quotation date="2021"><p>
  gaudia civis: n.: a humble pulse of gratification you feel when acting as a citizen -- serving on a jury, standing in line at a polling place, taking part in a debate at a town meeting -- where you can actually feel the gears of democracy turning ever so slightly, because you actually had a hand in it.
</p><author>John Koenig</author>
<source rdf:resource="https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows"><cite>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q870">
    <p>
      We share half of our genome with the banana, a fact more evident
in some of my acquaintances than others.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Robert May</author>
      <source>At Davos 2001</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q871">
    <p>
      Slowly, we're bringing the risks of online banking to projectile
weaponry.
    </p>
      <author>Anatole Shaw</author>
      <source>In RISKS digest 21.02</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q872">
    <p>
      I must tell you that it will mean some change in your writing
style. All four-letter words must be omitted and, in future, please no
references to screwing, buggery or to any perverted acts. I admit that
won't leave you much to write about, but that's the price of loyalty.
    </p>
      <author>Jack McClelland</author>
      <source>In a letter to Mordecai Richler</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q873" date="1985-03-17">
    <p>
      Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of
government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work
if they adhered to the cock-up theory.
    </p>
      <author>Bernard Ingham</author>
      <source></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q874">
    <p>
      There is no clearly traceable figure or pattern in this phase of
his life. If he knew where he was going, it is not apparent from this
distance. He fell down a great deal during this period, because of a
trick he had of walking into himself.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>From the introduction to <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q875" date="1967">
    <p>
      Recipe for Loon Soup: Do not make loon soup.
    </p>
      <source><cite>The Eskimo Cookbook</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q876">
    <p>
      We must avoid duplication of effort, because that is being done
by others.
    </p>
      <author>Arthur Mitchell</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q877">
    <p>
      To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal
enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife.
    </p>
      <author>Sir Karl Popper</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q878">
    <p>
      None could break the Web, no wings of fire. / So twisted the
cords, &amp; so knotted / The meshes: twisted like to the human brain.
    </p>
    <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Blake">William Blake</author>
    <source><cite>The Book of Urizen</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q879">
    <p>
      The mere idea of even attempting to account for ourselves
defeated us. We settled instead for explaining, by means of elaborate
mime and sign language, that we were barking mad.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Douglas_Adams">Douglas Adams &amp; Mark Carwardine</author>
      <source><cite>Last Chance to See</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q880" date="1928">
    <p>
      Only reason can convince of those three fundamental truths
without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that
what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not
necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
    </p>
      <author>Clive Bell</author>
      <source><cite>Civilization</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q881">
    <p>
      When one has stopped loving somebody, one feels that he has
become someone else, even though he is still the same person.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sei_Shōnagon">Sei Shōnagon</author>
      <source><cite>The Pillow Book</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q882">
    <p>
      Canadians are nice and fun; in fact, they are very much like us
Americans, except they're smart. They know their history <em>and</em>
ours.
    </p>
      <author>Mary Jo Pehl</author>
      <source>"A Guide to Guided Tours"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q883" date="1975">
    <p>
      The movie never ends, but if you wait long enough it gets to a
point where it's over.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
      <source>Reviewing <cite>Tidal Wave</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q884" date="1997">
    <p>
      After a beverage offered by Mrs. X and some polite chat, we all
board the X's fashionable all-terrain vehicle -- a necessity for their
active, all-terrain lifestyle -- all terrains in this case being
concrete, asphalt, pavement, <em>and</em> cement.
    </p>
      <author>Merrill Markoe</author>
      <source><cite>Merrill Markoe's Guide to Love</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q885" date="1920">
    <p>
      One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they
take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least
something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of
feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was
torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/T._S._Eliot">T.S. Eliot</author>
      <source>"Philip Massinger", in <cite>The Sacred Wood</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q886" date="1999">
    <p>
      And now, I feel myself becoming impatient with Olmsted. Why
can't he just get on with it? We expect the lives of people --
especially people who achieve great things -- to neatly follow a grand
design. I think of Michelangelo or Mozart or Cézanne. Their lives
resemble a game of building blocks. The blocks at the bottom are
arranged first and not haphazardly, since they will support the upper
levels. As the construction progresses, and more blocks are added, the
structure gets taller and taller. It is carefully assembled so as not
to topple. Following Olmsted's life is more like putting together a
picture puzzle. All sorts of odd-shaped pieces are lying on the table.
Two or three form a bit of sky, others a fragment of foliage. Here is
something that might -- or might not -- be water. It's not yet clear
how these fragments come together. Some pieces don't seem to fit
anywhere. Yet all the pieces of the jigsaw are necessary. Only when
the last piece is in place -- when the puzzle is complete -- does the
design make itself evident.
    </p>
      <author>Witold Rybczynski</author>
      <source><cite>A Clearing in the Distance</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q887" date="1999">
    <p>
      Are you guys really old, or do you just read a lot?
    </p>
      <source>Frank Conniff's favorite MST3K fan letter</source>
    <note>
      <p>
        Quoted in an article by Richard Corliss at
http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,130927,00.html
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q888" date="1994">
    <p>
      You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in whining.
    </p>
      <author>Dennis Ritchie</author>
      <source>In his Anti-Forward to <cite>The UNIX-HATERS Handbook</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q889">
    <p>
      After Zot! finished its first ten issue run in late '85, I took
a year and a half break (not entirely voluntary, since the book was
losing money at the time) and, apart from moving office furniture, I
also decided to do a giant-sized one shot filled with nothing but pure
senseless violence from beginning to end. I have since been credited
by Alan Moore with getting the 90's started four years early.
    </p>
      <author>Scott McCloud</author>
      <source>Describing his one-shot comic DESTROY!, on www.scottmccloud.com</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q890">
    <p>
      Whenever I do things because I want to do it and because it
seems fun or interesting and so on and so forth, it almost always
works. And it almost always winds up more than paying for itself.
Whenever I do things for the money, not only does it prove a headache
and a pain in the neck and come with all sorts of awful things
attached, but I normally don't wind up getting the money, either. So,
after a while, you do sort of start to learn [to] just forget about
the things where people come to you and dangle huge wads of cash in
front of you. Go for the one that seems interesting because, even if
it all falls apart, you've got something interesting out of it.
Whereas, the other way, you normally wind up getting absolutely
nothing out of it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</author>
      <source>In an interview in January Magazine</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q891" date="1998">
    <p>
      It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief
heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest
literature in military history; no brave trumpets sound in memory for
the drab millions who plodded to death on the featureless plains of
Picardy and Poland; no litanies are sung for the leaders who coaxed
them to slaughter. The legacy of the war's political outcome scarcely
bears contemplation: Europe ruined as a centre of world civilisation,
Christian kingdoms transformed through defeat into godless tyrannies,
Bolshevik or Nazi, the superficial difference in their ideology
counting not at all in their cruelty to common and decent folk. All
that was worst in the century which the First World War had opened,
the deliberate starvation of peasant enemies of the people by
provinces, the extermination of racial outcasts, the persecution of
ideology's intellectual and cultural hate-objects, the massacre of
ethnic minorities, the extinction of small national sovereignties, the
destruction of parliaments and the elevation of commissars, gauleiters
and warlords to power over voiceless millions, had its origins in the
chaos it left behind.
    </p>
      <author>John Keegan</author>
      <source><cite>The First World War</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q892" date="1936">
    <p>
      ... how much we really know about the vaults and caverns which
lie somewhere under the structure of a great nation -- about these
psychic catacombs in which all our concealed desires, our fearful
dreams and evil spirits, our vices and our forgotten and unexpiated
sins, have been buried for generations? In healthy times, these emerge
as the spectres in our dreams. ... But suppose, now, that all of these
things generally kept buried in our subconscious were to push their
way to the surface, as in the blood-cleansing function of a boil?
Suppose that this underworld now and again liberated by Satan bursts
forth, and the evil spirits escape the Pandora's box?
    </p>
      <author>Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen</author>
      <source>In August 1936, from <cite>Diary of a Man in Despair</cite></source>
    <note>
      <p>
        Quoted in John Ralston Saul's <cite>On Equilibrium</cite>.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q893" date="2007-03-27">
    <p>
      Why do so many online communities tolerate trolls, sick
psychopaths, and toxic personalities? "Oh noes!" you wail, "We cannot
be exclusionary, because that is Wrong!" Baloney. Quit being a wuss
and exclude the destructive buttheads. Create and enforce some
community standards, because tolerating poisonous people is the same
as taking a big hot steaming dump on the cool sane people you want to
have around. I cannot fathom the spineless mentality that would rather
suck up to psychopaths than stand up for friends.
    </p>
    <p>
      "Oh noes!" you wail some more, "What about Free Speech?" Hey,
what about enforcing standards and creating an atmosphere that permit
actual useful conversation, instead of allowing vandals to run the
show? I doubt that human rights will be set back very much by
squashing dialogue like "I wont to ram u til u cry." I had the
pleasure of receiving this communication recently. Lucky me, torn
between outrage at the message, and dismay over the terrible spelling
and grammar.
    </p>
    <p>
      This sort of junk is not trivial or something to endure as the
price of participating in online communities. It's violence, it's an
attack, and I despise the people who make excuses for it.
    </p>
      <author>Carla Schroder</author>
      <source>From http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/open_season_on_women.html</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q894" date="2001">
    <p>
      It is a fact that the world is flat. It is a fact that
Thalidomide stops morning sickness. It is a fact that feeding dead
sheep to cows is an efficient method for raising livestock. That
antibiotics do not remain in livestock at the time of human
consumption. That cigarettes do not cause cancer. That men are more
rational than women. That the Maginot Line will stop the German army.
That deregulated money-markets will produce an efficient economy. That
large mechanical fishing boats will create a more efficient fishery.
That radiation-based foot-measurement machines are helpful in buying
the right-sized shoe. That spraying asbestos on our walls and ceilings
creates an effective insulation for buildings. That spraying
insecticides onto roadsides will reduce governmental mowing costs.
That deregulated airways will encourage competition among airlines.
    </p>
    <p>
      Among all of these, the fact to last the longest as a fact is
the one which states that the world is flat. It must therefore be the
truest of the group. Indeed, the most rational.
    </p>
      <author>John Ralston Saul</author>
      <source><cite>On Equilibrium</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q895" date="1782">
    <p>
      I live a quiet Life, but not a pleasant one: My Children govern
without loving me, my Servants devour &amp; despise me, my Friends
caress and censure me, my Money wastes in Expences I do not enjoy, and
my Time in Trifles I do not approve. every one is made Insolent, &amp;
no one Comfortable. my Reputation unprotected, my Heart unsatisfied,
my Health unsettled.
    </p>
      <author>Hester Thrale</author>
      <source>In her diary entry for 26 September -- 1 October 1782</source>
    <note>
      <p>
        Excerpted in <cite>Capacious Hold-All: An Anthology of
Englishwomen's Diary Writings</cite>, edited by Harriet Blodgett.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q896" date="1977">
    <p>
      Even a library cataloguing system is stylized and reflects the
interests and reading habits of librarians and library users. The only
framework inclusive enough to embrace all man's undertakings with
equal objectivity is the garbage dump.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Murray_Schafer">R. Murray Schafer</author>
      <source><cite>The Tuning of the World</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q897" date="1990">
    <p>
      Clarity is not everything, but there is little without it.
    </p>
      <author>Edward Tufte</author>
      <source><cite>Envisioning Information</cite></source>
    <note>
      <p>
        On page 62.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q898" date="1991">
    <p>
      "I am afraid of cows. I think I have cow phobia. I have
nightmares about cows. Once upon a time a cow chased me in Yugoslavia
and I can't forget it. So you can just imagine what it was like: every
time I left the tent to get food, this cow would come up and stare at
me, and I'd be terrified. I even learned to say, 'Get lost, mate,' or
something Australian like that to the cow ... but no good ... so I
bought a cow."
    </p>
    <p>
      "You were afraid of cows and you bought a cow?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Yes. When you have one of these big fears, you should confront
it; and it was better for me to be frightened of my own cow than by
somebody else's cow. Anyway, we needed the milk."
    </p>
      <author>John Pilger</author>
      <source>Interviewing Valentina Makeev in <cite>A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia</cite></source>
    <note>
      <p>
        On page 86.
      </p>
    </note>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q899" date="2003">
    <p>
      Consistently, the less time spent with one's children, the more
positive one's parenting experience.
    </p>
      <author>Sandra Tsing Loh</author>
      <source>From "The Baby Experts", in the May 2003 issue of <cite>The Atlantic</cite>.
      </source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q900" date="2009">
    <p>
      Maybe all families are a kind of fandom, an endlessly
elaborated, endlessly disputed, endlessly reconfigured set of
commentaries, extrapolations, and variations generated by passionate
amateurs on the primal text of the parents' love for each other.
Sometimes the original program is canceled by death or separation;
sometimes, as with <cite>Doctor Who</cite>, it endures and flourishes
for decades. And maybe love, mortality, and loss, and all the children
and mythologies and sorrows they engender, make passionate amateurs --
nerds, geeks, and fanboys -- of us all.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michael_Chabon">Michael Chabon</author>
      <source>From "The Amateur Family", in <cite>Manhood for Amateurs</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q901" date="1937">
    <p>
      In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of
the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best bedside
manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Eric_Ambler">Eric Ambler</author>
      <source><cite>A Coffin for Dimitrios</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q902" date="1980">
    <p>
      New and significant prehuman fossils have been unearthed with
such unrelenting frequency in recent years that the fate of any
lecture notes can only be described with the watchword of a
fundamentally irrational economy -- planned obsolescence. Each year,
when the topic comes up in my courses, I simply open my old folder and
dump the contents into the nearest circular file. And here we go
again.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Jay_Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</author>
      <source>"Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution", in <cite>Ever Since Darwin</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q903" date="1890-01-03">
    <p>
      Why not telegraph to London, I thought, <em>for some music to
review?</em> Reviewing has one advantage over suicide. In suicide you
take it out of yourself: in reviewing you take it out of other people.
    </p>
      <author>George Bernard Shaw</author>
      <source>In "Criticism and Suicide", 3 January 1890</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q904" date="1704">
    <p>
      To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or
even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty
and leave the rest for others that come after, than to explain all
things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
    </p>
      <author>Isaac Newton</author>
      <source><cite>Opticks</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q905" date="2003">
    <p>
      "I regularly get emails from strangers telling me about this
Terribly Important new XML language they've cooked up, to which the
standard rejoinder is 'get in touch when you have some software to
show me.'"
    </p>
    <p>
      "Or less Canadianly, 'Shut up and show me the code.'"
    </p>
      <author>Tim Bray and John Cowan on the xml-dev mailing list</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q906">
    <p>
      In all other respects his paper is a wonderful example of what a
multitude of words can do towards obliterating meaning.
    </p>
      <author>Sir John Herschel</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q907" date="2003-10-01">
    <p>
      As far as I can tell, calling something philosophical is like
greasing a pig to make it hard to catch.
    </p>
    <author>Eric Pepke</author>
    <source>In a post to <cite>alt.atheism.moderated</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q908" date="1990">
    <p>
      A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor
encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor
restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story
seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel
uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been
salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of
a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There
is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true
war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity
and evil.
    </p>
      <author>Tim O'Brien</author>
      <source><cite>The Things They Carried</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q909" date="2002">
    <p>
      I hate Hyndland. You'll find its like in any large city. Green
leafy suburbs, two cars, children at public school and boredom,
boredom, boredom. Petty respectability up front, intricate cruelties
behind closed doors.
    </p>
      <author>Louise Welsh</author>
      <source><cite>The Cutting Room</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q910">
    <p>
      He knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more
numberless, and more nameless than the colours of an autumn forest; he
knows that there are abroad in the world and doing strange and
terrible service in it crimes that have never been condemned and
virtues that have never been christened. Yet he seriously believes
that these things can every one of them, in all their tones and
semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented
by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an
ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own
inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the
agonies of desire.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/G._K._Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</author>
      <source>In "Watts' Allegorical Paintings"</source>
  </quotation>

<quotation date="2021"><p>routwash: n. a moment of panic that you'll end up looking back on years of labor with little to show for it, that despite all the time you've spent gathering skills and connections and experiences, many of them will prove to have been worth almost nothing in the long run, redeemable for petty cash, a line on a résumé, a few compliments, or a handful of magic beans.
</p><author>John Koenig</author>
<source rdf:resource="https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows"><cite>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q911" date="1953">
    <p>
      Ruin, in an ancient country like China, amid appealing
simplicity like this, can be accepted smilingly; even the final and
greatest ruin of death. Further, since in imagination human beings can
prefigure this last irreparable loss, and then retrospectively assay
once more the transitoriness of mortal existence, one learns not to
reproach oneself excessively for errors of the past, and conceding
ultimate defeat, to consult one's intimate moods, one's own quiet and
small desires.
    </p>
      <author>George N. Kates</author>
      <source><cite>The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q912" date="1999">
    <p>
      In the end, just to cut his losses and get out of it clean,
Randy had to hire a lawyer of his own. The final cost to him was a
hair more than five thousand dollars. The software was never legally
sold to anyone, and indeed could not have been; it was so legally
encumbered by that point that it would have been like trying to sell
someone a rusty Volkswagen that had been dismantled and its parts
hidden in attack dog kennels all over the world.
    </p>
      <author>Neal Stephenson</author>
      <source><cite>Cryptonomicon</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q913" date="1932">
    <p>
      On one occasion, I took him [Harry Houdini] to a magicians'
meeting in my car, which that season was a Ford Model T coupe with a
front seat of only two-person width and with the doorcatches
inconveniently placed behind a person's elbow. When he tried to twist
around and work the catch, Houdini found it stuck and in all
seriousness, he demanded, "Say -- how do you get out of this thing?"
It wasn't until I had reached across and pulled the knob for him that
he began laughing, because he, of all people, couldn't get out of a
Ford coupe.
    </p>
      <author>Walter B. Gibson</author>
      <source><cite>Houdini on Magic</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q914" date="2004">
    <p>
      When, shortly after taking office as president, George W. Bush
was asked what he would do about global warming, his answer was, "We
will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things
first are the people who live in America." Asked whether the president
would call on drivers to sharply reduce their fuel consumption, the
White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, replied, "That's a big no.
The President believes that it's an American way of life, and that it
should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of
life. The American way of life is a blessed one."
    </p>
      <author>Peter Singer</author>
      <source><cite>The President of Good and Evil</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q915" date="1977">
    <p>
      The US presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
    </p>
      <author>Anthony Burgess</author>
      <source>In <cite>Writers at Work</cite>, ed. George Plimpton</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q916" date="2003">
    <p>
      ... during those last weeks we received a shocking call from an
American staffer, whose name I have long forgotten. He was engaged in
some sort of planning exercise and wanted to know how many Rwandans
had died, how many were refugees, and how many were internally
displaced. He told me that his estimates indicated that it would take
the deaths of 85,000 Rwandans to justify risking the life of one
American soldier. It was macabre, to say the least.
    </p>
      <author>Roméo Dallaire</author>
      <source><cite>Shake Hands With The Devil</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q917" date="2004">
    <p>
      "There is today too much pleading of sincerity," Brigge said.
"Let me have men who are doubtful, who struggle with their
consciences, who sometimes are confused by right and wrong, whose
perceptions fail, whose troubled minds lead them this way and that and
even to dark places they should not go. I do not care for these
certain men who insist that what they feel is the truth as though
their sincerity alone were enough to excuse their fanatic hearts.
Doliffe's virtues bring suffering and agony in their wake. His
sincerity is neither here nor there."
    </p>
      <author>Ronan Bennett</author>
      <source><cite>Havoc in Its Third Year</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q918" date="1920-07-26">
    <p>
      As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more
closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach
their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a
downright moron.
    </p>
      <author>H.L. Mencken</author>
      <source><cite>The Evening Sun</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q919" date="2004">
    <p>
      Ten years later, as a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford in 1976,
I experienced a minor epiphany about ambition's degradation. At age 16
or 17, I had wanted to be another Einstein; at 21, I would have been
happy to be another Feynman; at 24, a future T.D. Lee would have
sufficed. By 1976, sharing an office with other postdoctoral
researchers at Oxford, I realized that I had reached the point where I
merely envied the postdoc in the office next door because he had been
invited to give a seminar in France. In much the same way, by a
process options theorists call time decay, financial stock options
lose their potential as they approach their own expiration.
    </p>
      <author>Emanuel Derman</author>
      <source><cite>My Life as a Quant</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q920" date="1998-01-27">
    <p>
      I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world.
Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we
ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shalt not be a
perpetrator; thou shalt not be a victim; and thou shalt never, but
never, be a bystander.
    </p>
    <author>Yehuda Bauer</author>
    <source>From a speech delivered to the German Bundestag</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q921" date="2005-12-31">
    <p>
      The undercurrent of raw sexuality in my movies is not a theme --
it's just an approach. For me, the human body is the first fact of
human existence. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in an afterlife. To
me, our bodily reality is often avoided -- a lot of art, religion,
politics, and culture seek to make us avoid our existential reality.
And I insist on it. ... I'm not looking to transcend the body, but to
delve into it. Profoundly.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Cronenberg">David Cronenberg</author>
      <source>In a <cite>Globe &amp; Mail</cite> interview</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q922" date="2000">
    <p>
      If the Trail of Tears is a glacier that inched its way west, my
uncle is one of the boulders it deposited when it stopped. He had to
work the farm, and the farm he worked was what was left of his
grandfather's Indian allotment. And then came the Dust Bowl, and then
came the war. All these historical forces bore down on him, but he did
not break. Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend
from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a
car and drive seven states to find it.
    </p>
      <author>Sarah Vowell</author>
      <source>"What I See When I Look at the Face on the $20 Bill", in <cite>Take the Cannoli</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q923" date="2004-08">
    <p>
      My personal experience has not been that traveling around the
country is broadening or relaxing, or that radical changes in place
and context have a salutary effect, but rather that intranational
tourism is radically constricting and humbling in the hardest way --
hostile to my fantasy of being a true individual, of living somehow
outside and above it all. (Coming up is the part that my companions
find especially unhappy and repellent, a sure way to spoil the fun of
vacation travel.) To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure
late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot
ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil,
by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to
experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic
ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and
gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of
yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: as a tourist, you
become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect
on a dead thing.
    </p>
      <author>David Foster Wallace</author>
      <source>"Consider the Lobster", in <cite>The Best American Essays 2005</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q924" date="2006-03-13">
    <p>
      In his review of "Breaking the Spell," Leon Wieseltier couldn't
resist the reflexive accusation that building a worldview on a
scientific base is reductive, and as is often the case, he trotted out
the existence of art to capture our sympathies. As a composer, I am
weary of being commandeered as evidence of supernatural forces. Unlike
Wieseltier, I do not find it difficult to "envisage the biological
utilities" of the "Missa Solemnis"; it merely requires a chain with
more than one link.
    </p>
      <author>Scott Johnson</author>
      <source>In a letter to the <cite>New York Times</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q925" date="1907">
    <p>
      I have found that if I am turned loose in a large library, after
hesitating over covers for half an hour or so, it is usually a book of
soldier memoirs which I take down. Man is never so interesting as when
he is thoroughly in earnest, and no one is so earnest as he whose life
is at stake upon the event.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arthur_Conan_Doyle">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</author>
      <source><cite>Through The Magic Door</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q926" date="2006-09-11">
    <p>
      He's the Pope. ... One must recall that this isn't just some
random man in high drag who hears voices and really wants to operate
vaginas on a part-time basis despite professional obligations not to.
    </p>
      <author>Samnell</author>
      <source>In a discussion on Pharyngula</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q927" date="2007-04-28">
    <p>
      Our technological civilization will not last on this planet. Our
existence is, clearly, not sustainable. We're going to be the next
ones to become extinct. And that's okay. Let's enjoy each other while
we can; make friends; go to the movies.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Werner_Herzog">Werner Herzog</author>
      <source>In an interview during Ebertfest 2007</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q928" date="1987">
    <p>
      I left the flat depressed but, as I walked down Espedair Street,
back into town under a glorious sunset of red and gold, slowly a
feeling of contentment, intensifying almost to elation, filled me. I
couldn't say why; it felt like more than having gone through a period
of mourning and come out the other side, and more than just having
reassessed my own woes and decided they were slight compared to what
some people had to bear; it felt like faith, like revelation: that
things went on, that life ground on regardless, and mindless, and
produced pain and pleasure and hope and fear and joy and despair, and
you dodged some of it and you sought some of it and sometimes you were
lucky and sometimes you weren't, and sometimes you could plan your way
ahead and that would be the right thing to have done, but other times
all you could do was forget about plans and just be ready to
<em>react</em>, and sometimes the obvious was true and sometimes it
wasn't, and sometimes experience helped but not always, and it was all
luck, fate, in the end; you lived, and you waited to see what
happened, and you would rarely ever be sure that what you had done was
really the right thing or the wrong thing, because things can always
be better, and things can always be worse.
    </p>
      <author>Iain Banks</author>
      <source><cite>Espedair Street</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q929">
    <p>
      His love of each particular experiment, and his eager zeal not
to lose the fruit of it, came out markedly in these crossing
experiments -- in the elaborate care he took not to make any confusion
in putting capsules into wrong trays, &amp;c, &amp;c. I can recall his
appearance as he counted seeds under the simple microscope with an
alertness not usually characterising such mechanical work as counting.
I think he personified each seed as a small demon trying to elude him
by getting into the wrong heap, or jumping away altogether, and this
gave to the work the excitement of a game.
    </p>
      <author>Francis Darwin</author>
      <source>Writing about his father Charles, who was performing experiments on plant pollination. Quoted in <cite>Charles Darwin: The Power of Place</cite> (2002), Janet Browne.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q930" date="1991">
    <p>
      A good attitude to take, from the first day of any programming
project, is that the system being built is fundamentally flawed and
doomed. The goal of such a project, then, is simply to build a system
that will last long enough for a better one to come along, and perhaps
also to be, for a brief moment suspended between eternities, the best
program of its kind yet built.
    </p>
      <author>Nathaniel S. Borenstein</author>
      <source><cite>Programming As If People Mattered</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q931" date="1939">
    <p>
      The Germany that was "my country" and the country of those like
me was not just a blob on the map of Europe. It was characterized by
certain distinctive attitudes: humanity, openness on all sides,
philosophical depth of thought, dissatisfaction with the world and
oneself, the courage always to try something fresh and to abandon it
if need be, self-criticism, truthfulness, objectivity, severity,
rigor, variety, a certain ponderousness but also delight in the freest
improvisation, caution and earnestness but also a playful richness of
invention, engendering ever new ideas that it quickly rejects as
invalid, respect for originality, good nature, generosity,
sentimentality, musicality, and above all freedom, something roving,
unfettered, soaring, weightless, Promethean. Secretly we were proud
that in the realm of the spirit our country was the land of unlimited
possibilities. Be that as it may, this was the country we felt
attached to, in which we were at home.
    </p>
    <p>
      This Germany has been destroyed and trampled underfoot by the
nationalists, and it has at last become clear who its deadliest enemy
was: German nationalism itself and the German Reich. To stay loyal to
it and belong to it, one had to have the courage to recognize this
fact -- and all its consequences.
    </p>
      <author>Sebastian Haffner</author>
      <source><cite>Defying Hitler</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q932" date="2010">
    <p>
      All we really have are words, preserved for us in the most
haphazard fashion out of a much larger body of literature. So the
study of ancient history is roughly analogous to scrutinizing a badly
decayed patchwork quilt, full of holes and scraps of material from
earlier work. Central to understanding the process of study is an
awareness that, besides an occasional fragment liberated from the
desert by archaeologists, there will be no more evidence. The quilt is
it; everything must be based on a reasoned analysis of the fabric at
hand. Plainly the quality and integrity of some of the patches greatly
exceed those of the others, so they will be emphasized and relied upon
whenver possible. Yet, because of the limited nature of the material,
there is always the temptation to fall back on a truly outlandish
polka dot or a monumentally garish plaid, if only to figure out where
it came from and what it might have meant in its original form. In the
end, even among otherwise tasteful and scrupulous ancient historians,
something is almost always better than nothing.
    </p>
      <author>Robert L. O'Connell</author>
      <source><cite>The Ghosts of Cannae</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q933" date="1974">
    <p>
      Let us assume that there is, indeed, sentient life in one or
another part of remote space, and that we will be successful in
getting in touch with it. ... Perhaps we should wait a while, until we
are sure we know what we want to know, before we get down to detailed
questions. After all, the main queston will be the opener: Hello, are
you there? If the reply should turn out to be Yes, hello, we might
want to stop there and think about that, for quite a long time.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lewis_Thomas">Lewis Thomas</author>
      <source>"Ceti", in <cite>The Lives of a Cell</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q934" date="1990">
    <p>
      The problem with defending the purity of the English language is
that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just
borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down
alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new
vocabulary.
    </p>
      <author>James D. Nicoll</author>
      <source>In article &lt;1990May15.155309.8892@watdragon.waterloo.edu&gt; of rec.arts.sf-lovers.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q935" date="1991">
    <p>
      This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that
is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks contradictions are
a sign of intellectual ferment and vitality. This is a book that
systematically distorts and selects historical evidence; but that is
not a criticism, because its author thinks that all interpretations
are biased, and she regards it as her duty to pick and choose her
facts to favor her own brand of politics. This is a book full of
vaporous, French-intellectual prose that makes Teilhard de Chardin
sound like Ernest Hemingway by comparison; but that is not a
criticism, because the author likes that sort of prose and has taken
lessons in how to write it, and she thinks that plain, homely speech
is part of a conspiracy to oppress the poor. This is a book that
clatters around in a dark closet of irrelevancies for 450 pages before
it bumps accidentally into its index and stops; but that is not a
criticism, either, because its author finds it gratifying and
refreshing to bang unrelated facts together as a rebuke to stuffy
minds. This book infuriated me; but that is not a defect in it,
because it is supposed to infuriate people like me, and the author
would have been happier still if I had blown out an artery. In short,
this book is flawless, because all its deficiencies are deliberate
products of art.
    </p>
      <author>Matt Cartmill</author>
      <source>First paragraph of a review of <cite>Primate Visions:
      Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science</cite>
      by Donna Haraway, in <cite>International Journal of Primatology</cite> vol. 12 no. 1.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q936" date="1969">
    <p>
      He that lets / the small things bind him / leaves the great /
undone behind him.
    </p>
      <author>Piet Hein</author>
      <source>"Small Things and Great", in <cite>Grooks 2</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q937" date="2006">
    <p>
      It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course,
but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality,
enthusiasm, and vast energy. Intensity has its costs, of course -- in
pain, in hastily and poorly reckoned plans, in impetuousness -- but it
has its advantages as well.
    </p>
      <author>Kay Redfield Jamison</author>
      <source>"The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges", in <cite>This I Believe</cite></source>
  </quotation>

<quotation date="2013-10-14"><p>
In his final days, Brian instilled peace of mind among his family
members, ensuring they would take to heart the Rolfe motto,
<foreign>Post nubila, phoebus</foreign>.  After clouds, sunshine.
</p><author>Helen Rolfe</author>
<source>In "Lives Lived: Brian Alan John Rolfe", <cite>The Globe &amp; Mail</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2012"><p>Kayfabrication (the process of transition
from reality toward kayfabe) arises out of attempts to deliver a
dependably engaging product for a mass audience while removing the
unpredictable upheavals that imperil the participants.  Thus,
kayfabrication is a feature of many of our most important systems --
such as war, finance, love, politics, and science.
</p><author>Eric Weinstein</author>
<source>In "Kayfabe", from
<cite>This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts
to Improve Your Thinking</cite>, ed. John Brockman</source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2014-12-02"><p>
But the thing that most bugs me about this movie
[<cite>Interstellar</cite>]
-- the thing that comes closest to offending me, although I can’t
summon anywhere near that much intensity -- was something I knew going
in, because it’s right there in the tag line on every advance promo,
every Coming-Soon poster:</p>
<p><em>The end of the Earth will not be the end of us.</em><br/>
 Or</p>
<p><em>Mankind was born on earth. It was never meant to die here.</em><br/>
Or
</p>
<p><em>We were not meant to save the Earth.  We were meant to leave
it.</em></p>
<p>Which all comes down to</p>
<p><em>Let’s trash the place, then skip out and stick everyone else
with the bill.</em></p>

<p>This is where I finally connect with my inner antiabortionist.
Because I, too, think you should pay for your sins. I think that if
you break it, you damn well own it; and if your own short-sighted
stupidity has killed off your life-support system, it’s only right and
proper that that you <em>suffer</em>, that you sink into the quagmire along
with the other nine million species your appetites have condemned to
extinction. There should be <em>consequences</em>.
</p><author>Peter Watts</author>
<source>From "<cite>Interstellar</cite> and my Inner
Anti-Abortionist", at http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5396
</source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2014"><p>
I have a rule for people that I developed out of the LGBT political
movement, but it applies to other movements as well.  If you have a
political cause that is very important to you, and you are asked to
join in an activity that is great fun and makes you feel wholly
engaged and warm, and you are in solidarity with those who agree with
you, you are almost certainly not helping.  You are engaged in a kind
of massive reinforcement.
</p>
 <author>Barney Frank</author>
 <source>In <cite>The Humanist</cite>, Nov/Dec 2014</source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2013"><p>... after all, cyberspace is a place of
false power -- of being able to mouth off and scream at those you don't like
without actually having to hear any response to your ideas or to actually
have to make much of a rational case.  It's perfect for the less tethered.
</p><author>Michael Kimmel</author>
<source><cite>Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2009"><p>
  At this point, however, I look at them -- the Revolutionary War dead and the 9/11
  dead -- as occupying two difficult poles in American history: the blood lost
  in the pursuit of liberty and the liberty lost in the pursuit of blood.
</p><author>Jelani Cobb</author>
<source>In "In Defense of George Bush", in <cite>The Best African-American Essays 2010</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="1998"><p>
  This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
</p><author>Terry Pratchett</author>
<source>In "No Worries", in <cite>A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation date="1932">
    <p>
      When he stood up, his face white and dirty and the silk of his
      breeches opened from waist to knee, it was the dirtiness of the rented
      breeches, the dirtiness of his slit underwear, and the clean, clean,
      unbearably clean whiteness of the thigh bone that I had seen, and it
      was that which was important.
    </p>
    <author>Ernest Hemingway</author>
    <source>In "Bullfighting", from <cite>Death in the Afternoon</cite></source>
  </quotation>

  <quotation date="1912"><p>
    We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been
    rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a
    paralytic. He is an individual <em>annihilated</em>, not
    <em>disciplined</em>.</p><p>
    We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself,
    and can, therefore, regulate his own conduct when it shall be
    necessary to follow some rule of life.
</p><author>Maria Montessori</author>
<source><cite>The Montessori Method</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2016-09-01"><p>
  As a result, I’ve increasingly found myself a supporter of messy
  public process: the legislation pushed through government slowly, in
  curtailed form; the interminable, fruitless-seeming town-hall meeting;
  many of the government’s lumbering, error-prone efforts at
  regulation. These processes are cumbersome, often wasteful, and
  inevitably infuriating. But at their best they have the virtue of
  occurring in a common arena, the place where all parts of a population
  meet. They force us, if we hope to get anything done, to translate our
  values and thoughts into language that communicates broadly. The more
  I observe, the warier I grow of privatized efficiency: in time, it
  indulges clannish thought. Let’s drive our language out of private
  circles, back toward the public sphere.
</p><author>Nathan Heller</author>
<source>In "Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of
Public Language", in <cite>The New Yorker</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="1962"><p>In preparing for battle I have always found
that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dwight_D._Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</author>
<source>Quoted in Richard Nixon's <cite>Six Crises</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="1928"><p>
  Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths
  without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty:
  that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is
  not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
</p><author>Clive Bell</author>
<source><cite>Civilization</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2009"><p>
  The world is where laws are made and interpreted and enforced, wars
  are fought, things are made and bought and sold, research is done,
  knowledge is collected and shared, opinion is shaped; where people
  are governed, employed, taught, trained, rewarded, punished, healed,
  challenged.  The world is where the interesting stuff happens.</p>
  <p>The world is where people deal with other people, in wholesale
  lots; where people deal with large numbers of strangers.  Home is
  where people deal with other people they know well, one or two or
  three at a time.  Home is miniature; the world is large.  The
  smallness and intimacy and relatedness of home are fine things, but
  not if one is confined to them permanently.</p>
  <p>The fact that the world is where the laws and rules and norms are
  made also means that a sexual division of the two entails that women
  are subject to laws and rules and norms that they have no part in
  making.  The conflict of interest is inescapable.  It is men who
  allot men the realm where the rules are laid down, and they lay down
  rules that allot them the realm where the rules are laid down.
  </p><author>Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom</author>
  <source><cite>Does God Hate Women?</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2017-05-16"><p>
  I happen to think that the core values of Stoicism are, in fact,
  exactly what our (or any, really) civilization is in dire need of:
  the idea that if one doesn’t act morally then external goods are
  meaningless; the notion that some things are up to us and others
  aren’t, so that we can focus where we most make a difference; the
  concept that we are all members of the same polis, and that we ought
  to help each other to survive and thrive; and the idea that we
  should use a bit more reason in dealing with the complex problems
  that life presents us with.
</p><author>Massimo Pigliucci</author>
<source>In "Stoicism and the 'inadequacy of the invincible'",
from https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/stoicism-and-the-inadequacy-of-the-invincible/
</source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2006"><p>
  Owning a genuinely powerful car must be akin to being a prisoner in
  one of those possibly legendary castle cells which are too low to
  permit standing upright and too narrow to permit lying down.  How
  must it feel, outside the maniacal planet of the Autobahn or some
  long dusty stretch in Texas, to have all this power and not the
  faintest chance to use it?
</p><author>Simon Winder</author>
<source><cite>The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into The Disturbing World of James Bond</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2017-08-03"><p>
  The [Brexit] referendum was won like a Union debate: with funny,
  almost substance-free hot air. Remember Johnson’s policy on cake: he
  was pro-having it, and pro-eating it. In Britain, humour is used to
  cut off conversations before they can get emotional, boring or
  technical.
</p><author>Simon Kuper</author>
<source>In "Brexit reveals Britain’s enduring flaws", in the <cite>Financial Times</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2017-09-22"><p>
  But I’ve also observed a tendency, over my years as an sf reader,
  for sf writers of a certain age to give the After Us The Deluge
  speech, so I promised myself I’d try to be watchful of the onset of
  that, try to fend it off as best I could. I suspect that when people
  notice how much of the world they grew up has already ended, it’s
  quite natural to feel that the world is ending. Because the world
  one knew quite demonstrably is. But it always has been ending, that
  way. You can read the ancient Greeks, say, doing it at great
  length. When younger, though, this sounds like something one can
  simply choose to avoid, just as old people, to the young, appear to
  have made some sort of inexplicably terrible decision to become old.
</p><author>William Gibson</author>
<source>In a <cite>Boing Boing</cite> interview with Cory Doctorow
 at https://boingboing.net/2017/09/22/the-jackpot.html
</source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2007"><p>
  For the [Kogi and Ika] Indians of the Sierra, everything begins and
  ends with the loom, and the metaphor of thread in the cosmic cloth.
  Constantly on the move as they gather food and various resources,
  the Indians refer to their wanderings as "weavings", each journey a
  thread woven into a sacred cloak over the Great Mother, each
  seasonal movement a prayer for the well-being of the people and the
  entire Earth.  When the people of the Sierra plant a field, the
  women sow lines of crops parallel to the sides of the plot.  The men
  work their way across the field in a horizontal direction.  The
  result, should the domains of man and woman be superimposed one upon
  the other, is a fabric.  The garden is a piece of cloth.
</p><author>Wade Davis</author>
<source><cite>Light at the Edge of the World</cite></source>
</quotation>


<quotation date="2018"><p>
    The thing to fear from the Trump presidency is not the bold
    overthrow of the Constitution, but the stealthy paralysis of
    governance; not the open defiance of law, but an accumulating
    subversion of norms; not the deployment of state power to
    intimidate dissidents, but the incitement of private violence to
    radicalize supporters.  Trump operates not by strategy, but by
    instinct.  His great skill is to sniff his opponents'
    vulnerabilities: "low energy", "little", "crooked", "fake".  In
    the same way, Trump has intuited the weak points in the American
    political system and in American political culture.  Trump gambled
    that Americans resent each other's differences more than they
    cherish their shared democracy.  So far, that gamble has paid off.
</p><author>David Frum</author>
<source><cite>Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2012"><p>
  What you learn after a long time in math -- and I think the lesson
  applies much more broadly -- is that there's <em>always</em>
  somebody ahead of you, whether they're right there in class with you
  or not. People just starting out look to people with good theorems,
  people with some good theorems look to people with lots of good theorems,
  people with lots of good theorems look to people with Fields Medals,
  people with Fields Medals look to the "inner circle" Medalists,
  and those people can always look toward the dead.  Nobody ever looks
  in the mirror and says, "Let's face it, I'm smarter than Gauss."
  And yet, in the last hundred years, the joined effort of all these
  dummies-compared-to-Gauss has produced the greatest flowering of
  mathematical knowledge the world has ever seen.
  </p><p>
  Mathematics, mostly, is a communal enterprise, each advance the
  product of a huge network of minds working toward a common purpose,
  even if we accord special honor to the person who places the last
  stone in the arch.
</p><author>Jordan Ellenberg</author>
<source><cite>How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2017"><p>
It's a question of what kind of place you're born into, not just
geographically or socioeconomically, but historically.  There are
lucky times and places to be born, and unlucky times and places.
In America, the relatively lucky time for the average person to be
born appears to be past.
</p><author>Malcolm Harris</author>
<source><cite>Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="1135"><p>Let us, however, think about what has become of
those who lived in the first millennium around this time, around the
135th year.  In those days, of course, Antoninus ruled Rome with his
brother Lucius Aurelius, and Pius the Roman was pope. ...  But who
were the other people who lived throughout the countries of the world
at that time?  Let our present kings and dukes, tyrants and princes,
church leaders and earls, commanders and governors, magistrates and
sheriffs, warlike and strong men -- let them tell me: who were in
command and held office at that time?  ...  What does it matter
whether they were individually noble or ignoble, renowned or unknown,
praiseworthy or disreputable, exalted or cast down, wise or foolish?
If any of them undertook some labor for the sake of praise and glory,
when now no record of him survives any more than of his horse or his
ass, why then did the wretch torment his spirit in vain?  What benefit
was it to them, who came to this?
</p><author>Henry of Huntingdon</author>
<source>Cited in chapter 17 of <cite>Losing It</cite>, by William Ian Miller.  According to Miller, the last line should be even harsher: "and everything is as miserable as it was."</source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2018"><p>
  The lingering nineteenth-century belief that Earth changes only
  slowly has lulled us into thinking that it is impassive and eternal,
  that nothing we do could alter it significantly.  That notion has
  also caused us to view Earth's intermittent adjustments -- the
  creation of a new volcanic island, a magnitude 9 earthquake -- as
  aberrations, when in fact these events are business as usual for the
  planet. We are big enough now to scratch and dent the Earth, scar,
  and abrade it, but we ourselves will have to live with the
  damage. Earth, meanwhile, will continue to make slow repairs,
  punctuated by sudden renovation projects that will clear away our
  proudest constructions.
</p><author>Marcia Bjornerud</author>
<source><cite>Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save
the World</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2019"><p>
  When we thought of language as a book, we thought of it as static
  and authoritative, a thing which would be better if we returned to a
  pristine first edition and erased all the messy new words that
  people had scribbled into the margins.  But there is no pristine
  first edition of a network.  A network is not debased as it changes;
  its flexibility is a key part of its strength. So, too, is language
  enriched and made alive again for each subsequent generation as new
  connections grow and old ones wither away.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gretchen_McCulloch">Gretchen McCulloch</author>
<source><cite>Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language</cite></source>
</quotation>

<quotation date="2021"><p>
  o'erpine: v. intr.: to wander through the grounds of a cemetery, glancing over the gravestones as if you were people-watching the dead, imagining all the things they must have seen and the lives they might have led, trying to conjure up an entire biography from a handful of words and dates etched in granite, with barely more than a single dash to cover the unimaginable vastness of their experience.
</p><author>John Koenig</author>
<source rdf:resource="https://dbpedia.org/page/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows"><cite>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</cite></source>
</quotation>

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  <quotation id="q938" date="1994">
    <p>
      Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress
yourself.
    </p>
    <p>
      Cosimo: It is only a play... with music? Does God say the same
at every death? It is only a play... with music? When I die, will
someone say the same? He was only a prince. He died. It was only a
play... with music.
    </p>
    <p>
      Nun 2: (Very quietly) Sir, be grateful for the music. Most of us
die in silence.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peter_Greenaway">Peter Greenaway</author>
      <source><cite>The Baby of Mâcon</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q939">
    <p>
      And in the end, yes, all we have is the question of whether we
go with dignity and honor, knowing that we have lived our lives with
passion and compassion in equal measure. For me, that knowledge is
enough to sustain me when the game is finally called on account of
darkness.
    </p>
      <author>J. Michael Straczynski</author>
      <source>In <cite>rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q940" date="2005-12-31">
    <p>
      To me, the life that we live is heaven. My idea of paradise is
life on Earth. But we often don't know it, and can't see it that way,
until, I'm sure, we start to leave it.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_Cronenberg">David Cronenberg</author>
      <source>In a <cite>Globe &amp; Mail</cite> interview</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q941">
    <p>
      Now it is time that we were going, I to die and you to live; but
which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Plato">Plato</author>
      <source>From <cite>The Apology</cite>, quoting Socrates's final words at his trial</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q942" date="2001">
    <p>
      The clarity of Socrates' situation is remarkable. ... his exit
is wonderfully seductive. It is calm, clear, convincing. Friends are
present, wise words are said, the ethical unfolding of life is tied up
in a neat package. And then he slips away, slowly becoming stone-cold
from the feet up. It is our fantasy of the normal death, with the
addition of social and prophetic implications, to say nothing of
heroic proportions. Again, most of us will likely drop dead on a
subway platform, in the middle of an orgasm or straining on a toilet
seat early in the morning. The real tragedy of death may be just how
often it is comic.
    </p>
      <author>John Ralston Saul</author>
      <source><cite>On Equilibrium</cite></source>
  </quotation>
<quotation date="2011"><p>
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is
nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as
much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content
before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am
grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder,
and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's
memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require
them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel
Tower I brought home from Paris.
</p><author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Roger_Ebert">Roger Ebert</author>
<source><cite>Life Itself: A Memoir</cite></source>
</quotation>

  <quotation id="q943">
    <p>
      It is unfortunate, however, that even a well-ordered life cannot
lead anybody safely around the inevitable doom that waits in the sky.
As F. Hopkinson Smith long ago pointed out, the claw of the sea-puss
gets us all in the end.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/James_Thurber">James Thurber</author>
      <source>"Preface to A Life", in <cite>The Thurber Carnival</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q944">
    <p>
      ... don't waste too much effort in searching for conspiracies.
Most of the harm done in the world is out of stupidity, not by design.
Be on the watch for skulduggery... but don't fall into the trap of
thinking that every evil thing that occurs in the world in part of
some diabolic master plan. The notion that whatever is wrong with the
world can be blamed on somebody (never, of course, one's self) is a
rather infantile carryover from the childhood days when our parents
were thought to be all-powerful and therefore all-responsible.
    </p>
      <author>Gerard K. O'Neill</author>
      <source><cite>2081</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q945" date="1989">
    <p>
      As I walked out to the plane in the balmy air of a Sydney
September night, my mind flew back to the dusty cemetery where my
father was buried. Where, I wondered, would my bones come to rest? It
pained me to think of them not fertilizing Australian soil. Then I
comforted myself with the notion that wherever on the earth was my
final resting place, my body would return to the restless red dust of
the western plains. I could see how it would blow about and get in
people's eyes, and I was content with that.
    </p>
      <author>Jill Ker Conway</author>
      <source><cite>The Road from Coorain</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q946">
    <p>
      The principle of maximum diversity operates both at the physical
and at the mental level. It says that the laws of nature and the
initial conditions are such as to make the universe as interesting as
possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Always when
things are dull, something new turns up to challenge us and to stop us
from settling into a rut. Examples of things which make life difficult
are all around us: comet impacts, ice ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear
fission, computers, sex, sin and death. Not all challenges can be
overcome, and so we have tragedy. Maximum diversity often leads to
maximum stress. In the end we survive, but only by the skin of our
teeth.
    </p>
      <author>Freeman Dyson</author>
      <source><cite>Infinite in All Directions</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q947" date="1995">
    <p>
      There are men who serve us, like the consul at Trollesund. And
there are men we take for lovers or husbands. You are so young, Lyra,
too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll
understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies,
creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud,
beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that
our hearts are continually racked with pain. We bear their children,
who are witches if they are female, human if not; and then in the
blink of an eye they are gone, felled, slain, lost. Our sons, too.
When a little boy is growing, he thinks he is immortal. His mother
knows he isn't. Each time becomes more painful, until finally your
heart is broken. Perhaps that is when Yambe-Akka comes for you. She is
older than the tundra. Perhaps, for her, witches' lives are as brief
as men's are to us.
    </p>
      <author>Philip Pullman</author>
      <source><cite>The Golden Compass</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q948">
    <p>
      If there's another world, he lives in bliss; / If there is none,
he made the best of this.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robert_Burns">Robert Burns</author>
      <source>"Epitaph on William Muir"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q949" date="1986">
    <p>
      When I was born, I cried myself; / when I die, others will cry.
/ When I cried, others were happy; / when others cry, I too should
feel joy. / "Alas, it passes away so fast!" / The windblown wheel,
rolling like a carriage. / They change the torch, but not the fire: /
the later flame is still the older flame. / How laughable, the people
of this world, / frantically making offerings to Buddha and immortals!
/ Spiritual alchemy just exhausts the body, / and bowing in worship
hurts your head. / In the end, all return to the vastness, / like wind
whose form can never be grasped. / Indeed, when called / that is when
I'll go; / with a smile, I follow with the crowd.
    </p>
      <author>Yüan Mei</author>
      <source>"Happy About Being Old", translated by Jonathan Chaves in <cite>The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q950">
    <p>
      It was a wasted life, but God forbid that one should be hard
upon it, or upon anything in this world that is not deliberately and
coldly wrong . . .
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</author>
      <source>In a letter to his friend John Forster.</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q951">
    <p>
      Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.
    </p>
      <author>Cenotaph in Hiroshima</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q952">
    <p>
      Ahead, there were such sights unfolding: friends and places
they'd feared gone forever coming to greet them, eager for shared
rapture. There was time for all their miracles now. For ghosts and
transformations; for passion and ambiguity; for noon-day visions and
midnight glory. Time in abundance. For nothing ever begins. And this
story, having no beginning, will have no end.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clive_Barker">Clive Barker</author>
      <source><cite>Weaveworld</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q953" date="1974">
    <p>
      Everything that comes alive seems to be in trade for something
that dies, cell for cell. There might be some comfort in the
recognition of synchrony, in the information that we all go down
together, in the best of company.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lewis_Thomas">Lewis Thomas</author>
      <source>"Death in the Open", in <cite>The Lives of a Cell</cite></source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q954">
    <p>
      My old cat is dead / Who would butt me with his head. / He had
the sleekest fur, / He had the blackest purr, / Always gentle with us
/ Was this black puss, / But when I found him today / Stiff and cold
where he lay, / His look was a lion's, / Full of rage, defiance: / O!
he would not pretend / That what came was a friend / But met it in
pure hate. / Well died, my old cat.
    </p>
      <author>Hal Summers</author>
      <source>"My Old Cat"</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q955">
    <p>
      I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my
whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the
tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q956">
    <p>
      I regret that I will never know the results of my own autopsy.
    </p>
      <author>Bill Cheswick</author>
      <source>In an interview in ;login:, Feb. 1998</source>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q957">
    <p>
      May you go safe, my friend, across that dizzy way / No wider
than a hair, by which your people go / From earth to Paradise; may you
go safe today / With stars and space above, and time and stars below.
    </p>
      <author>Lord Dunsany</author>
  </quotation>
  <quotation id="q958" date="1994">
    <p>
      "Can you tell me the time of the last complete show?"
    </p>
    <p>
      "You have the wrong number."
    </p>
    <p>
      "Eh? Isn't this the Odeon?"
    </p>
    <p>
      I decide to give a Burtonian answer.
    </p>
    <p>
      "No, this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but
the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you
must. The show is continuous. Good-night."
    </p>
      <author rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robertson_Davies">Robertson Davies</author>
      <source><cite>The Cunning Man</cite></source>
  </quotation>
</quotations>