One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. - Niels Bohr

They should draw up an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don't want any more than that. - Tina Fey

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. - Ralph W. Sockman

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sidney J. Harris

I don't believe I've ever done this... but I've been close. And I definitely saw a lot of this at Microsoft.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -James Thurber

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. - Voltaire

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human propensity for comfy self-delusion. - David Brin, on the problems of accurate prognostication.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. - Joseph Heller

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr  

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Sir Barnett Cocks