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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 | | |
