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"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."

"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."

"We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often."

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

"I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe."

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."

"I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."