"Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly." -- (unknown)
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly. -Robert Oppenheimer, 1929
A monthly thread for posting any interesting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently on the Internet, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages.