640Kb ought to be enough for anyone. Bill Gates.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).

A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. M. Twain.

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. Simon Newcomb, American astronomer (1903).

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas fils.

All great truths begins as blasphemies. Bernard Shaw.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

All that we are, are the result of what we have thought. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Oscar Wilde.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. Mahatma Gandhi.

An opinion is not necessarily correct because someone is willing to die for it. Oscar Wilde.

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. Aristotle.

Arrogance leads to failure. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous. Winston Churchill (1939).

Be good and you will be lonely. Mark Twain.

But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Nikola Tesla.

But what ... is it good for? Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

Democracy is the worst form of Government ever attempted in the world. The only exceptions to this are all the other ones tried. Winston Churchill.

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back').

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden.

Drillers shape holes, bow makers arrows, carpenters shape wood and the wise shape him self. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

Each person I meet is superior to me in some aspect. From that I learn from her. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Educate the children so you won't have to punish men. Pitagoras.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's incandescent lamp (c.1880).

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. Richard Whately.

Everything has been thought of before. The problem is of think it again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley.

Formal Education will make you a living; Self education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn.

Good timber does not grow under comfortable circumstances, the stronger the wind, the stronger the tree. J. Willard Marriott.

Great men's success should always be measured against the means they used to reached it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing. George Herbert.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist.

Help others, but when you do that, do not forget yourself. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901).

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. Albert Einstein.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. Thomas Edison.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward.

I love fool experiments, I am always making them. Darwin.

I must confess that my imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H.G. Wells, Anticipations (1901).

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

If God had intended that man should fly, he would have given him wings. Widely attributed to George W. Melville, chief engineer of the U.S. Navy (c. 1900).

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca.

If you do not want anyone to know about it - don't do it. Chinese adage.

If you get upset about small things, you are probably not much larger than them. Alf Henrikson.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Theresa.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. Kahlil Gibran.

If you want to be happy for a day - drink a bottle of wine. If you want to be happy for a month - find your self a woman. If you want to be happy for all your life - make your self a garden. Chinese adage.

If your happiness depends on what others do you really have got a problem. Richard Bach.

Ignorance is the mother of research. Charles F. Kettering.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'. Erich Fromm.

It is also of your concern when there is a fire at your neighbour's. Horatius.

It is better to ask and appear ignorant than to remain ignorant. Chinese adage.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu).

It is impossible for one who is caught in a swamp to help another one caught. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

It is not the monuments that teaches us history. It is the ruins. Carl Hammarén.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein.

Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes. Ron Hall.

Knowledge is not enough, it must be used; will is not enough, we also must act. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

Life is not the days that have passed, but the days one remember. Pavlenko.

Lift your face towards the sun - then you will not see the shadows. Helen Keller.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi.

Love built on beauty dies fast, and so does the beauty. John Donne.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. Javan.

Love your neighbour, but put up a fence. Russian adage.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus.

Man won't fly for a thousand years.Wilbur Wright, to brother Orville after a disappointing flying experiment (1901).

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. Thomas Dewar.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. Epictetus.

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. Jesse Jackson.

Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway.

Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised. Robert Frost.

No man is free who is not a master of himself. Epictetus.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Not even the angels stand higher than the man who took the wrong way and then returned. The Talmud.

Not failure, but low aim is a crime. James Russell Lowell.

Nothing is more dangerous than an opinion if that is the only one you got. Emile Chartier.

One does not have peace longer than one's neighbour wants. Gustav Vasa.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein.

Originality is going back to origins. Antoni Gaudí.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Oliver Goldsmith.

Our position determines what we see. Ylva Eggehorn.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Kierkegaard.

People fear what they do not understand. Bruce Lee.

Radio has no future. Lord Kelvin, ca. 1897.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius.

Small things affects small minds. Benjamin Disraeli.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Sir Winston Churchill.

Some people talk in their sleep even when they are asleep. Henrik Bernhard Palmaer.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Speak in anger and you will hold the best speech you ever regretted. Winston Churchill.

Talk doesn't cook rice. Chinese proverb.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve.

The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it. . . . Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient. Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839) French surgeon.

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain.

The earth you cannot change. Calm your violent soul. All you can do is another person good. Stig Dagerman.

The first duty of love - is to listen. Paul Tillich.

The foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd length to which vicious specialization will carry scientists working in thought-tight compartments. A.W. Bickerton (1926) Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Canterbury College, New Zealand.

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

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. E.E. Cummings.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler.

The important thing is never to stop questioning. Albert Einstein.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao-Tse.

The man that conquers him self is superior to the one who conquers a thousand men in a battle. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

The most useful lesson life has given me is that the fools often are right. Winston Churchill.

The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments. Chinese adage.

The ones who got most out of life is not those who have lived a whole century, but those who have lived every minute. Colette.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke.

The only way to get a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The person who isn't interested in his fellow beings has the greatest difficulties in life and also creates the greatest damage to others. Alfred Adler.

The poor misses much, the greedy everything. Publicus Cyrus.

The road to a friend's house is never long. Danish proverb.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Carl Sagan.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism. Nietzche.

There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home. Ken Olson, 1977, President, Digital Equipment Corp.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur.

There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. Albert Einstein, 1932.

They must find it difficult...Those who have taken the authority as the truth, rather than the truth as the authority. Gerald Massey.

They never will try to steal the phonograph. It is not of any commercial value. Thomas Edison (c. 1915).

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Doris Lessing.

Those who wander astray, new paths find, of which others later will benefit to know. Gustav Fröding.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. Sigmund Freud.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise Strong.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle.

We become what we see. William Blake.

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. Gary Collins.

We owe our friends to tell them the truth no matter how pleasant it is. Magnus von Platen.

Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. Editorial in the Boston Post (1865).

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. Bernard Bailey.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics, March 1949.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer).

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. Benjamin Franklin.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato.

With knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa.

Without friends, no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods. Aristotle.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing. Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu).

X-rays are a hoax. Lord Kelvin, engineer and physicist (c. 1900).

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. Martin Luther.

You are the best I got, since nothing hurts like you. Karin Boye.