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"It is simplicity that is difficult to make." -- Bertholdt Brecht
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"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at 
it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." -- Paul Anderson
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent 
are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russel
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"A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is 
obscure." -- Hugh Kingsmill
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"Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess 
ourselves." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of 
knowledge." -- Daniel Boorstin
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"Inspiration comes from the act of writing." -- Steven Dunn
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"As a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn 
to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, 
rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished 
by failure." -- E.W. Dijkstra
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"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." 
-- Winston Churchill
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"There's no sense being exact about something if you don't even know what 
you're talking about." -- John von Neumann
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"Life is what's happening while you are busy making other plans." -- anonymous
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"Each problem has an infinity of wrong solutions." -- anonymous
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"If you think big enough, you will never have to do it." 
-- Reisner's Rule of Conceptual Inertia
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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdos
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"In art, 'good enough' is not good enough." -- U.K. Le Guin
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"That people do not learn very much from history is the most important of all 
lessons history has to teach." -- Aldous Huxley
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." 
-- Bertrand Russel
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"We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge." -- R.D. Rogers
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"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." 
-- Edward Everett
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and 
catastrophe." -- H. G. Wells
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"When censorship really works, you'll never know." -- anonymous
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"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a 
democracy should be the weapon of openness." -- Niels Bohr
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"People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost." 
-- Bertolt Brecht
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"If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry 
about the answers." -- Thomas Pynchon
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"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't 
exist." -- Roger "Verbal" Kint
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"The tighter you close your fist, Governor Tarkin, the more systems will slip 
through your fingers." -- Princess Leia
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley
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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it's inefficiency." 
-- Eugene McCarthy
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"Common sense is the least common of all senses." -- "Hobson's Homily"
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"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther." 
-- anonymous
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"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as 
they go by." -- Will Rogers
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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody 
else has thought." -- Albert Szent-Gyoergi
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"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the 
things we have taken for granted." -- Bertrand Russel
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"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." -- Navajo Proverb
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"Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future." -- Niels Bohr
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"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise." -- Hungarian proverb
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who found it." 
-- Andre Gide
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"Politics consits in the art of taking votes from the poor and money from the 
rich under the pretext of protecting each from the other." -- anonymous
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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." 
-- George Santayana
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"Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to 
pathology." -- Nietzsche
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"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to 
exist." -- Salman Rushdie
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"There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way... The right to 
speak PGP is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular 
right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is 
inconvenient for them to understand." -- Eben Moglen
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"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status 
quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain 
is the pain of a new idea." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so 
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for 
us." -- Alexander Graham Bell
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true 
liberty." -- James Madison, 4th US President
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"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might 
dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they 
were bound to get you." -- George Orwell, _1984_
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"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to 
take it all away." -- Barry Goldwater
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"Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse." 
-- Rousseau, "The Social Contract," 1762
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"Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy." -- Orson Welles
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"1. Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press and all other 
forms of expression are guaranteed. 2. No censorship shall be maintained, nor 
shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated." 
-- Article 21, Constitution of Japan
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"All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. 
Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, 
possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, 
happiness, and privacy." 
-- Article 1, Section 1, Constitution of the State of California, USA
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"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in 
session." -- Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's 
character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln
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"It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions 
that I whish it to be always kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes." -- Juvenal, circa 128 AD
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they 
oppress." -- Frederick Douglass
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"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety 
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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"Liberty means responsability. That's why most men dread it." 
-- George Bernard Shaw
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"I know not with what weapons Worl War III will be fought, but World War IV 
will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-- Albert Einstein
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the the universe." -- Albert Einstein
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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that
can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at
Princeton University)
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