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 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)

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

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)

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

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

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)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)

Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell. (Aldous Huxley)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (Edsgar Dijkstra)