Monday, April 26, 2010

Some quotes I like ...

"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
"A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former."
"You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty."
"A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
"Why don’t you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce, to her husband James
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before."
"I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying."
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."