Quotes I like (random order)

If you know it it is simple; If it isn't simple you don't know it.

Not all that glitters is gold; not all that wander are lost.

I'm successful because I'm lucky; the harder I work the luckier I get.

The only man who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.

If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.

If everything else fails, read the manual
                -- Michael Schlueter

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
                -- Salvor Hardin, "Foundation"

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
                -- Winston S. Churchill 

A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and
the real reason.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
                -- Niels Bohr

Know how to solve every problem that has been solved
                -- Richard P. Feynman 

Do little things well, then will come great things asking to be done.
                                   Persian proverb

I would rather be approximately right than exactly wrong.
(J.M. Keynes)

There is no quality if you can't measure it.
(Illy et al. "Espresso Coffee: the chemistry of quality")

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
                -- Kurt Lewin

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists
know it.
                -- Richard P. Feynman

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

The difference between art and science is that science is what we
understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
                -- Donald Knuth, "Discover"

"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was."
-- Walt West

Optimization hinders evolution.

Meglio un numero fetente che nessun numero -
- A crappy number is better than no number.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. 
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 
                -- Maria Sklodowska-Curie

A ship is always safe at the shore - but this is not what it is built for.
                -- Albert Einstein
                
Uno nasce, e poi muore. Il resto sono chiacchiere. 
                -- Francesco Tullio Altan

I'm not afraid of death, it's like being stupid, it's only painful for
other people
                -- Ricky Gervais

We worry about the people that believe the bad bits in their holy books
as well the good bits. Most nice people who believe in God they can tell
the difference. They do, they know the nice ... They cherry pick and
they know the nice bits from the bad bits. They don't do the bad bits
and my point is if you know the bad bits from the good bits you don't
need the holy book, you know, you're already a moral person.
                -- Ricky Gervais

I did a tweet the other week that just said this tween is controversial
and I did a poll and it came out 50-50
                -- Ricky Gervais

The next sentence is TRUE.
The previous sentence is FALSE.
                -- confused logician

"Do you wanna live forever ?"
                -- Valeria (Conan the Barbarian, 1982)

Ura tece, nic ne rece.

Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula posteras.
(As we speak, the envious age has fled: seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.)
                -- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)
                -- Guy Lombardo (1949)


All models are wrong but some are useful
                -- George P.E. Box

Ce qui est simple est toujours faux. Ce qui ne l'est pas est inutilisable
                -- Paul Valery

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, 
at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the 
manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
                -- Pablo Picasso (1923)