Quote of the Day

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

Paraphrased from Theodore Sturgeon

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."

Edmund Burke

Einstein Explains Radio

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Albert Einstein -- Unknown

"You cannot invade America. There is a rifle behind every blade of grass."

Admiral Yamamoto  (1941)

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."

M. K. Gandhi

"As a state gets corrupt, its laws multiply; the most corrupt states have the most numerous laws."

Tacitus -- Annales 3:27

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."

Wernher von Braun

Sturgeon's Law

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

Paraphrased from Theodore Sturgeon

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"I do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence I would advise violence."

Gandhi

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."

Sigmund Freud

"Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke

"Fortune favors the bold."

Virgil

"Two wrongs don't make a right; it usually takes three or four."

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