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| Administrator | "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." - Jules Verne | |||
| Administrator | "We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man; we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space." - H.G. Wells | |||
| Administrator | "It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." - Isaac Asimov - Foundation | |||
| Administrator | "Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe." - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz | |||
| Administrator | "Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." - J.R.R. Tolkien - Fellowship of the Ring | |||
| Administrator | "The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge." Frank Herbert - Dune | |||
| Administrator | "Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it." - Frank Herbert - Chapterhouse Dune | |||
| Administrator | "A world is supported by four things. The learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling." - Frank Herbert - Dune | |||
| Administrator | "If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?" - Lois McMaster Bujold - Diplomatic Immunity | |||
| Administrator | "Conformity and rebellion...both ways are simple-minded--they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity." - Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age | |||
| Administrator | "It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them...At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts." - R.A. Salvatore - Sojourn | |||
| Administrator | "Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action." - R.A. Salvatore - The Halfling's Gem | |||
| Administrator | "There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias." - Elizabeth Moon - The Speed of Dark | |||
| Administrator | "Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore." - Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 | |||
| Administrator | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey - Deep Thoughts | |||
| The Shadow | "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." - Steven Wright | |||
| Administrator | "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov | |||
| Administrator | "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand." - Kurt Vonnegut | |||
| Administrator | "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "Indecision may or may not be my problem." - Jimmy Buffett | |||
| Administrator | "It's a dangerous business going out your front door." - J.R.R. Tolkien | |||
| Administrator | "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." - J.R.R. Tolkien | |||
| Administrator | "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut | |||
| Administrator | "I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." - Terry Pratchett | |||
| Administrator | "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke | |||
| Administrator | "I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out." - Steven Wright | |||
| Administrator | "Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." - Philip K. Dick | |||
| Administrator | "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick | |||
| Administrator | "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." - Neil Gaiman | |||
| Administrator | "What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?" - Neil Gaiman | |||
| Administrator | "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson | |||
| Administrator | "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright | |||
| Administrator | "We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong." - Sir Arthur Eddington | |||
| Administrator | "The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." - Frank Herbert | |||
| Administrator | "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune" | |||
| Administrator | "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert | |||
| Administrator | "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." - Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam) | |||
| Administrator | "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination." - Bertrand Russell | |||
| Administrator | "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." - Arthur C. Clarke | |||
| Administrator | "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke | |||
| Administrator | "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke | |||
| Administrator | "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut | |||
| Administrator | "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" - Ambrose Bierce | |||
| Administrator | "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx | |||
| Administrator | "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx | |||
| Administrator | "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest." - Isaac Asimov | |||
| Administrator | "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." - George Orwell | |||
| Administrator | "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - George Orwell | |||
| Administrator | "He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action." - Frank Herbert | |||
| Administrator | "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." - JRR Tolkien | |||
| Administrator | "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" - Henry Ward Beecher | |||
| Administrator | "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." - Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| kayphere | "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." - Anonymous | |||
| Administrator | "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein | |||
| Administrator | "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein | |||
| Administrator | "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein | |||
| Administrator | "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." - J.R.R. Tolkien | |||
| Administrator | "As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me." - N.D. Wilson | |||
| Administrator | "Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Administrator | "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Administrator | "There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." - Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Administrator | "Free online films can't all be 'Dr. Horrible,' but they can be horrible." - Jonathan McDonald | |||
| Administrator | Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure. - Jane Brody | |||
| Administrator | "Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible." - Stanislaw Lem | |||
| Administrator | "Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book." - Edward Gibbon | |||
| Administrator | "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." - Terry Pratchett | |||
| Administrator | "It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life." - Terry Pratchett | |||
| Administrator | "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett | |||
| Administrator | "Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions." - Terry Pratchett | |||
| Administrator | "Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more." - Terry Pratchett | |||
| Administrator | "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." - Ray Bradbury | |||
| Administrator | "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." - Ray Bradbury | |||
| Administrator | "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams | |||
| Administrator | "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." - Poul Anderson | |||
| Administrator | "Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad." - Diogenes the Cynic | |||
| Administrator | "Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires." ~ Lazarus Long - Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Administrator | "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov | |||
| christopherw277 | "Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all." - Gerald White Johnson | |||
| Administrator | "The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison | |||
| Administrator | "Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment." - Harlan Ellison (Paladin of the Lost Hour) | |||
| Administrator | "At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years." - Arthur C. Clarke | |||
| Administrator | "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 | |||
| Administrator | "Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie." ~ Dr. Horrible - Joss Whedon et al. | |||
| whargoul | "I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger." - unknown | |||
| Administrator | "The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives." - Lois McMaster Bujold | |||
| Administrator | "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." - Sir Arthur Eddington | |||
| Administrator | "We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong." - Sir Arthur Eddington | |||
| Administrator | "Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers." - Sir Arthur Eddington | |||
| Administrator | "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell | |||
| Administrator | "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell | |||
| Administrator | "War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent." - George Orwell | |||
| whargoul | "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" - Isaac Asimov | |||
| Administrator | "Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win." - Robert A. Heinlein | |||
| Administrator | "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." - G. K. Chesterton | |||
| Administrator | "Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." - Kurt Vonnegut | |||
| Administrator | "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." - Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle) | |||
| Administrator | "How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive." - Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five) | |||
| Administrator | "If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals." - Poul Anderson (The Boat of a Million Years) | |||
