| Author |
Quotes |
| Robert X Cringely | If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. |
| Ron Brown | Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. |
| Rory Bremner | If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. |
| Russell Baker | Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. |
| Sam Ervin | Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. |
| Scott McNealy | The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. |
| Sir Henry Tizard | The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world. |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy, |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. |
| Sir William Bragg | The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. |
| Sir William Bragg | The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. |
| St Basil | A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. |
| Stephen Jay Gould | In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. |
| Stephen W Hawking | I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. |
| Steve Polyak | Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? |
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