"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."

Twain, Mark on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If something can go wrong it will."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on expectation   

"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on wrong
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on ideals and idealism
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

Lamport, Leslie on computers   

"Control over computing belongs with users."

Allen, Brandt on computers   

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

Kennedy, John F. on computers   

"Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself."

Putzke, Mark on universe   

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around"

Edison, Thomas A. on mind
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Kurosawa, Akiro on sanity
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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Asimov, Isaac on morality
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"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."

Borenstein, Nathanie on computers   

"Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed."

Boschert, Bob on computers   

"Computers WORK, people THINK."

IBM Corporation Old Adage on computers
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"Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid."

Kelly, William M. on computers   

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."

Weinberger, Harry on computers   

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on simplicity
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

Proverb, Chinese on failure
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on decisions
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

Harris, Sidney J. on computers
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"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

Asimov, Isaac on computers
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"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down"

Augustine, Norman on computers   

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

Barry, Dave on computers   

"Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]"

Unknown, Source on computers   

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila."

Ratliffe, Mitch on computers
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"When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster."

Asimov, Isaac on dream
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

Asimov, Isaac on science
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac on self-improvement
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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