“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” – Edsger Dijkstra
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.” – Jesus of Nazareth
“Minds are like parachutes. They work best when open, but make the biggest impact when closed.”
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” – Hanlon’s Razor
“In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them.” – John von Neumann
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams
“CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.” – Ambrose Bierce
“It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything.” – Tyler Durden, Fight Club
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.” – Neil Gaiman
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” – Robert Heinlein
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” – Paul Atreides, from Frank Herbert’s Dune
“Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
「能ある鷹は爪を隠す。」
“The talented hawk hides its claws.” – Japanese Proverb
「知己知彼，百戰不殆。」 – 孫武
“Know yourself and know your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” – Sun Tzu
「學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。」
“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.” – Confucius
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty Six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” – William Shakespeare
“You can’t be a dragon-slayer without dragons.” – John Cheese
“The most terrifying fact of the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” – Stanley Kubrick
“Supreme rule of life is to adapt without compromising.” – Attributed to Georg Simmel by Mikado Ryugamine/Ryohgo Narita
“Humility comes before honour.”
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for a man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.” – Marcus Aurelius
“My own nature is a rational and a civic one; I have a city, and I have a country; as Marcus I have Rome, and as a human being I have the universe; and consequently, what is beneficial to these communities is the sole good for me.” – Marcus Aurelius
“In the midst of it all you must take your stand, good-temperedly and without disdain, yet always aware that a man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Truly if there is evil in this world, it lies in the heart of mankind.” – Edward D. Morrison, Tales of Phantasia
“The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.” – John Walter Wayland (Virginia, 1899)
“Noblesse oblige is an emotion felt only by the truly noble.” – Robert Heinlein
“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Apple Inc.
“I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.” – Joss Whedon
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” – Albert Einstein
“Men, nay, all humans, seek happiness above all else. All that Lelouch, the young Britannian man, wanted was a little corner of happiness. It was nothing special. At least the root, the principle behind his actions was merely a small, normal, very human wish. Who thought to refuse him this wish? Who had the right to do so? When they involve themselves with others and with the world at large, men’s fortune mingle and intertwine. And so, one who puts his own wishes above those of the world will be washed away after a pitiful, fleeting existence. Crime and punishment. Fate and judgment. What stood before Lelouch was the past that he created, and his hatred of his own human self. Even so, he should remain hopeful. Yes, at the very least, all men seek happiness. A silver lining, some faint ray of hope, can be born even of the deepest sadness.” – C.C., Code Geass
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world… but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” – Augustus Waters, The Fault In Our Stars, by: John Green
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” – Paul the Apostle
“Those who cannot trust, cannot be trusted.”
“Reason before passion.” – Motto of Pierre Trudeau
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll (the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland)
“I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.” – Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let justice be done, so the heavens form.”
“Stories are where memories go when they’re forgotten.” – Doctor Who
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know when you’ll get Schrodinger’s Cat.”
“I think ultimately you become whoever would have saved you that time that no one did.” – Someone on Tumblr
“Virtue is only virtue in extremis. Only in darkness are we revealed. Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit, without hope, without witness, without reward.” – Doctor Who