Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)

I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it. (Groucho Marx)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it. (John F. Kennedywhen asked what is his favorite song)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)