- The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
- – H. L. Mencken
- Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
- – Doug Larson
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- – Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in “Foundation”
- No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- – Sir Frederick G. Banting
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- – Aristotle
- A cult is a religion with no political power.
- – Tom Wolfe
- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- – Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- – George Bernard Shaw
