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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. (George Washington Carver)

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. (Vince Lombardi)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. (Pablo Picasso)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian L. Fleming)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. (Sharon Stone)