Victor Hugo

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." - Victor Hugo

Niels Bohr

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

John Andrew Holmes

"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." - John Andrew Holmes

Unknown

"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't." - Unknown

Umberto Eco

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco

Peter De Vries

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." - Peter De Vries

Hubert H. Humphrey

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." - Hubert H. Humphrey

Robert Pirsig

"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good." - Robert Pirsig

Ben Hecht

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." - Ben Hecht

P. J. O'Rourke

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke

Paul Beatty

"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." - Paul Beatty

Alan Key

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

Victor Hugo

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

John le Carre

"Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen." - John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974

Max Beerbohm

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men." - Max Beerbohm

Norman Mailer

"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you." - Norman Mailer

Alfred Korzybski

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." - Alfred Korzybski

Edward Abbey

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Janet Long

"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy." - Janet Long

Hmmm, so conversely does that mean part of being crazy, is being a little bit sane?

Harlan Ellison

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison