Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
-Paul Valéry
Style is the stuff you get wrong.
-Neil Gaiman
Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.
-Paul Kriwaczek
No man who opposes the unrighteousness of the state lives long if he is in a public position.
-Socrates, while at trial
The best thing about the future is, that it comes only one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
-Jim Rohn
I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice, but I just wanted to do it so bad.
-Neko Case
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies
-Schopenhauer
Wherever you have a goat and you have a piece of wood, all I want to say is the goat better watch out because it’s probably going to end up being a bagpipe.
-Hans Zimmer
Whom the Gods would destroy, they first put on the cover of Business Week.
-Paul Krugman
