Quotations

A selection of my favorite quotations.

• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." Einstein
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
• "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." Stephen Hawking
• "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." Stephen Hawking
• "A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar." Fred Dibnah (and others)
• "The state of the art has now exceeded the state of need" Brian Seedle
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Einstein
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." Einstein
• "The modern world stinks." Fred Dibnah
• "A sheep mincing thing - now that's clever" Wallice (the windows)
• "I believe it is peace in our time" Neville Chamberlain
• "Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted time" John Lennon
• "It's better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission" Brian Seedle
• "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." Winston Churchill
• "Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level." Enrico Fermi
• "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" Robert Oppenheimer - himself quoting 'The Bhagavad-Gita'
• "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." - Carl Sagan
• "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
• "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan