Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911