Favorite quotes

World and Universe

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"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

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

People and relationships

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones

Thinking

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Personalities

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins

Miscellaneous

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"The mistakes are all waiting to be made." - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann (1903-1957)

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"No sane man will dance." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)