Carl Sagan

In order to make an apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe.

via this isn't happiness™ (Heath Killen)

John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Turkish Proverb

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

William Durant (founder of General Motors)

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Michael J. Fox

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Leslie Lamport

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

George Orwell, Author

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. … Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.

Stephen King

Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

Douglas Adams

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

James A. Arconati

One man's trash is another man's treasure. One man's 'boring' is another man's pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Thomas Jefferson

Its soul, its climate, its equality, liberty, laws, people, and manners. My God! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Sir Patrick Stewart

I have the strong feeling that, should the time come for me, having had no role in my birth, I would like there to be a choice I might make about how I die.