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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. -- Bill Cosby
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security. --Benjamin Franklin
On Science
You can't study darkness by flooding it with light. -- Ed Abbey
Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war. -- Ed Abbey
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition. --Thomas S. Kuhn
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science. --Hippocrates
"Your claim then, is that your truth is of so esoteric a nature that it is beyond the understanding of a plain man. It seems to me that truth should be clearer than that, less mysterious, more open to the mind." --The Commission's Advocate, Isaac Asimov, Foundation
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Browning Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood-- and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminancy. --Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide