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Quotes:

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein.

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein.

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." - Albert Einstein.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein.

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein.

"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind." - The Epic of Gilgamesh.

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Thomas Paine.

"If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else." - Vaclav Havel.

"Most people are more frightened of failure than of mediocrity. It should be the reverse." - Daniel Pink.

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." - Paracelsus.

"We're a science fiction species" - Robert Zubrin. Discussion with Robert Zubin. The revolution in space flight and exploration in future. 26 August 2022.

"Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it." - Criss Jami.

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

"Grief is the price we pay for love." - Queen Elizabeth II speaking to the United States following 911.

"journalism is the first rough draft of history" - attributed to Washington Post president and publisher Philip L. Graham.

"The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. . . . We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we're told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality." - Michael Crichton.

"Almost all government policy is wrong but... frightfully well carried out." - Sir Humphrey Appleby.

"The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man, though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least." - Albert Einstein.

"Any application that can be written in Javascript will eventually be written in Javascript." - Jeff Atwood (2007) "Atwood's Law".

"Altruism's great, but it's not that great" - Raul Cano (Microbiologist).

"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows." - Werner Heisenberg.

"Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning." - Unknown.

"Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean." - Bob Marley.

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd in Salt from My Attic (1928).

"That which is not measurable is not science." - Paulo Lotufo.

"When we invented the ship, we invented the shipwreck." - Paul Virilio.

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." - Hunter S. Thompson.

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right." - Hunter S. Thompson.

"A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long." - Hunter S. Thompson.