* "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

* "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

* "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

* "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin 1871 (The descent of man)

* "Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman

* "Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds." - Richard Feynman

* "Whenever I'm wrong, the world just makes little bit less sense." - Frasier

* "I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing." - Thomas Edison

* "Morality is about doing the right thing when no one is watching." - Atheist's Wager

* "If atheism is a belief system then not collecting stamps is a hobby." - Jafafa Hots (Slashdot comment)

* "Do _I_ know what "rhetorical" means?" - Homer Simpson

* "Skill shows through where genius wears thin." - Wittgenstein

* "You cannot build a society around steak and sunshine and expect life to move quickly." - Maciej Ceglowski on Argentina

* "It is said that papers in string theory are published at a rate greater than the speed of light. This, however, is not problematic since no information is being transmitted." - H. Kleinert.

* "You're not old until regret take the place of your dreams" - Uknown

* "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die." - Franz Kafka

*  "Tomorrow is going to be wonderful, because tonight I do not understand anything." - Niels Bohr

* "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx 

* "Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own." - Otto von Bismarck

* "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

* "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

* "God lives in the gaps of our knowledge." - Greg Perkins (From Henry Drummond)

* "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi

* "Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil." - Robert Heinlein, (though Lazarus)

* "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off." - Bjarne Stroustrup

* "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -  Eleanor Roosevelt

* "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein (1954)

* "You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave." - Henry Ward Beecher

* "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government." - Henry Ward Beecher

* "The most dangerous people are the ignorant." - Henry Ward Beecher

* "It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top." - Henry Ward Beecher

* "Even not-so-great paintings - in fact, any slapdash attempt at splashing paint onto a surface - will get you laid more than writing software, especially if you have the slightest hint of being a tortured, brooding soul about you." - Maciej Ceglowski

* "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

* "You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman

* "And while it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it's unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." - Joel Spolsky

* "Let the willing and the able self-select out of the mainstream and into the upstream." - David Heinemeier Hansson (2006-04-07)

* "People have strange little preferences. For example, I love flashlights, tubing of any sort, moss, and ball bearings. No reason. I just like those things." - Scott Adams

* "Fairness is a concept that was invented so that children and idiots could participate in arguments." - Scott Adams

* "I know that some of you think that life without caffeine is actually worth living. But it isn't." - Scott Adams

* "What is past is prologue." - William Shakespeare 

* "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

* "Om du tror kompetens kostar pengar, vad tror du då inkompetens kostar?" - Johan Staël von Holstein

* "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov

* "Don't look for malice where incompetence will do." - Napoleon

* "Denial is a special case of optimism." - Leighton Read

* "Ethanol is for drinking, not driving." - Jay Keasling

* "If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed." - Disney Executive

* "What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea." - Gandhi

* "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.

* "Ask yourself: Why is it important for me to believe that I know the answers?" - Buddah

* "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

* "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Unknown

* "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

* Respect goes both ways. Fear only goes one. - Unknown

* "Saying creation is true because not everything about evolution is known, is like saying that because the world isn't perfectly round (it is a bit flattened at the poles) it must be flat." - Claes Mogren 14/11-2006

* "Stupider is a word for people who would use it" - Mark Shuttleworth