Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. - J. William Fulbright

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. - William Lloyd Garrison

The pearl of justice is found in the heart of mercy. - Catherine of Siena. (h/t: lj)

People aren’t afraid of being dead, they’re afraid of getting dead. - George Carlin

There are two things you need for success in politics. Money and I can’t think of the other. Senator Mark Hannah

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. - Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does. - Phil Woosnam

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. - Umberto Eco