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 * Franklin P. Adams:: "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way."


 * Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986), architect of the World Trade Center:: "The World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a living representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his belief in the cooperation of men, and through this cooperation his ability to find greatness." (Heyer, Paul. Architects on Architecture: New Directions in America. London: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 1967, p194-195.) Also see Humanity Dignity Cooperation Greatness.


 * Rita Mae Brown:: "Morals are private. Decency is public."


 * Francis Bacon, 1625:: "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."


 * H. G. Wells, 1920:: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."


 * Albert Einstein, 19550502:: "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."


 * Albert Einstein:: "The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it."


 * Albert Einstein:: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."


 * unknown:: "Speak only if you can improve upon the silence." (variations are attributed as Quaker, Vermont, Spanish, Chinese, or Buddhist wisdom, or to Laurence C. Coughlin)


 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858:: "Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music."


 * Earl Warren:: "Everything I did in my life, that was worthwhile, I caught hell for!"


 * Popular Motto of the State of Maine:: "The way life should be."


 * Official Motto of the State of Maine:: "Dirigo." ("I lead.")


 * T. S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934:: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"


 * Isaac Newton, 16760205:: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Bernard de Chartres, XII&egrave;me si&egrave;cle:
 * "Nos esse quasi nanos gigantum umeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea."
 * "Nous sommes des nains juch&eacute;s sur des &eacute;paules de g&eacute;ant. Nous voyons ainsi davantage et plus loin qu'eux, non parce que notre vue est plus a&iuml;gue ou notre taille plus haute, mais parce qu'ils nous portent en l'air et nous &eacute;l&egrave;vent de toute leur hauteur gigantesque."
 * "We are dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants. We see thus more and further than they do, not because our sight is more acute or our height taller, but because they lift us into the air and elevate us with all their gigantic height." Also see this bibliography.


 * R. W. Hamming -- One Man's View of Computer Science -- 1968 Turing Award Lecture:: "Indeed, one of my major complaints about the computer field is that whereas Newton could say, 'If I have seen a little farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants,' I am forced to say, 'Today we stand on each other's feet.' Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way. Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things."


 * Mark Twain:: "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."


 * Mark Twain:: "Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."


 * Paul Saffo, after "an old cowboy where I was raised":: "Never mistake a clear view for a short distance."


 * Cicero:: "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." ("There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.") Also see Lorem Ipsum Dolor.


 * Rabbi Phinehas ben Yair (as attributed by Dr. A. S. Bettelheim):: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness."

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.\ Als sie die Gewerkschaftler holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschaftler.\ Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte."\ ("When the Nazis came for the Communists, I was silent; I was not a Communist.\ When they locked up the Social Democrats, I was silent; I was not a Social Democrat.\ When they came for the trade unionists, I was silent; I was not a trade unionist.\ Then they came for me, and there was no one left to protest.")
 * Martin Niem&ouml;ller:: "Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.\


 * Peter Ellis , 20000330:: "First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs."  (After Bill Watterson's Calvin's "Verbing weirds language." alt.fan.pratchett, )


 * Charles V:: "Je parle espagnol &agrave; Dieu, italien aux femmes, fran&ccedil;ais aux hommes et allemand &agrave; mon cheval." ("I speak Spanish to God, Italian with women, French with men and German to my horse.")


 * Claude Gagni&egrave;re:: "Un homme qui parle trois langues est trilingue. Un homme qui parle deux langues est bilingue. Un homme qui ne parle qu'une langue est anglais."


 * William of Ockham, 14th century:: "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate." (Plurality should not be assumed without necessity).


 * Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, 1931, writing about ousted mayor William Hale Thompson:: "It is unpleasant business to eject a skunk, but someone has to do it."


 * Dave Clark, A Cloudy Crystal Ball / Apocalypse Now, July 1992, 24th annual IETF conference:: "We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code."


 * Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657:: "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." (I have made this [letter] longer because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.)


 * Frank Zappa:: "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."


 * John Gilmore, What's Wrong With Copy Protection, 20010216:: "What is wrong is that we have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from scarcity."


 * François Rabelais, Gargantua, 1534:: "Natura vacuum abhorret."


 * Baruch Spinoza, Ethica I, Propositio XV, 1677:: "Cum igitur vacuum in natura non detur." (There does not exist a vacuum in nature.)


 * Andr&eacute; Gide, Ainsi soit-il (Journal 1939-1949, Souvenirs, Gallimard, «Biblioth&egrave;que de la Pl&eacute;iade», 1954, p. 1233):: "Croyez ceux qui cherchent la v&eacute;rit&eacute;, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-m&ecirc;me." (Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.)


 * 1 John 3:18:: "Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth." (non diligamus verbo nec lingua sed opere et veritate)


 * Elbert Hubbard:: "Live truth instead of professing it."


 * Elbert Hubbard:: "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."


 * Rudy Giuliani, CNN interview, 2002-09-11:: "When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate."


 * David Weinberger, 2002-11-01:: "The opposite of a machine is voice. The opposite of information is trust."


 * Ted Nelson:: "Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged -- people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."


 * H. L. Mencken, _Why Liberty?_, Chicago Tribune - 1927-01-30:: "I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air -- that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."


 * Edward R. Murrow:: "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."


 * William James, Principles of Psychology, 1890:: "A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind."


 * Jorge Luis Borges, El idioma analítico de John Wilkins, 1952:: "Esas ambigüedades, redundancias y deficiencias recuerdan las que el doctor Franz Kuhn atribuye a cierta enciclopedia china que se titula Emporio celestial de conocimientos benévolos. En sus remotas páginas está escrito que los animales se dividen en (a) pertenecientes al Emperador, (b) embalsamados, (c) amaestrados, (d) lechones, (e) sirenas, (f) fabulosos, (g) perros sueltos, (h) incluidos en esta clasificación, (i) que se agitan como locos, (j) innumerables, (k) dibujados con un pincel finísimo de pelo de camello, (l) etcétera, (m) que acaban de romper el jarrón, (n) que de lejos parecen moscas."


 * Esther Dyson, Dave Net, 1994:: "There's too much noise out there anyway. The new wave is not value-added; it's garbage-subtracted."


 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:: "Man soll alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen."


 * Seneca:: "Hoffe nicht ohne Zweifel und zweifle nicht ohne Hoffnung."


 * Dwight D. Eisenhower:: "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."


 * Friedrich Nietzsche -- Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche nr. 77, 1879:: "Die Mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit." (The mother of excess is not joy, but joylessness. -- Mixed Opinions and Maxims, #77)

Other sites with interesting quotes:
 * http://www.operone.de/spruch/zit/zitinh.htm
 * http://sophie-g.net/fav/quote1.htm
 * http://www.unmoralische.de/