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A few years ago, when I was hitchhiking through Laramie, Wyoming, I met an old and infertile man named John. I told him, “I think I’d have made a good son, John. But I’d have made an even better Johnson.” He nodded as he took a long drag from...

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

[Shaw enters the quartermaster's office while some of his soldiers guard the door] Kendric, quatermaster: Morning, Colonel. Change your mind about that bottle? Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I want 600 pairs of shoes and 1200 pairs of socks... and anything ...

Glory

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

Conversation with the Earth

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer

Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

A Frolic of His Own

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

Robert Lanza

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

Bill Griffith

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Gil Kane

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Advice for a Young Investigator

Akira. Estemos siempre así. Nunca encontraré a nadie que me guste tanto como él. Estoy segura...

Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai Kanzenban, Volume 1

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

Waiting for Robert Capa

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Where is Science Going?

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

Brian Behlendorf

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David Deutsch

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

James Hansen

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

John Romero

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Jamie Zawinski

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.

Michael J. Massimino