Top short quotes (2009-2014) by karma per character:

• 60 A Bet is a Tax on BullshitAlex Tabarrok
• 45 Luck is statistics taken personally.Penn Jillette
• 35 Comic Quote Minus 37-- Ryan ArmandAlso a favourite.
• 42 I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.Calvin
• 34 Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.Ken Wilber
• 51 I will not procrastinate regarding any ritual granting immortality.--Evil Overlord List #230
• 34 A problem well stated is a problem half solved.Charles Kettering
• 26 "I accidentally changed my mind."my four-year-old
• 27 "Most haystacks do not even have a needle."-- Lorenzo
• 50 He uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination.G.K. Chesterton
• 29 The greatest weariness comes from work not done.-Eric Hoffer
• 31 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.Voltaire
• 32 If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid."Murphy's Laws of Combat"
• 41 The Noah principle: predicting rain doesn’t count, building arks does.-Warren E. Buffett
• 41 Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.-Joel Spolsky
• 25 What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought.Steve Sailer
• 40 People say "think outside the box," as if the box wasn't a fucking great idea.Sean Thomason
• 27 Procrastination is the thief of compound interest.-Venkatesh Rao
• 21 "A problem well put, is half solved." - John Dewey
• 38 A raise is only a raise for thirty days; after that, it’s just your salary.-- David Russo
• 37 It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s easier to lie without them.-Fred Mosteller
• 32 If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.-Seneca
• 25 The most practical thing in the world is a good theory.Helmholtz
• 35 It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.George Bernard Shaw
• 30 When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?John Maynard Keynes
• 27 Part of the potential of things is how they break.Vi Hart, How To Snakes
• 32 Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.-- Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
• 29 Writing program code is a good way of debugging your thinking.-- Bill Venables
• 15 Focusing is about saying no.-- Steve Jobs
• 34 "Working in mysterious ways" is the greatest euphemism for failure ever devised.TheTweetOfGod
• 35 However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.-- Winston Churchill
• 29 "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from SCIENCE!"~Girl Genius
• 32 There is one rule that's very simple, but not easy: observe reality and adjust.Ran Prieur
• 32 The Company that needs a new machine tool is already paying for it.-old Warner Swasey ad
• 34 Market exchange is a pathetically inadequate substitute for love, but it scales better.S. T. Rev
• 22 Things are only impossible until they're not.-- Jean-Luc Picard
• 30 Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.— John Von Neumann
• 26 A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.Daniel Dennett
• 30 “Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• 27 Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.— Grossman's Law
• 25 The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.Gloria Steinem
• 31 It's a horrible feeling when you don't understand why you did something.-- Dennis Monokroussos
• 29 We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it.Mark Twain
• 27 It is easy to be certain....One has only to be sufficiently vague.Charles S. Peirce
• 26 Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?Jason Roy
• 12 Reality is not optional.Thomas Sowell
• 11 Death is the gods' crime.Unsounded
• 25 Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.Dean Schlicter
• 23 It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.Democritus
• 22 Most people would rather die than think; many do.– Bertrand Russell
• 28 Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.-- K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation
• 30 Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.--Professor Farnsworth, Futurama.
• 26 The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.--Rory Miller
• 17 Statistics is applied philosophy of science.A. P. Dawid
• 19 Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.--Jane Espenson
• 28 Nobody panics when things go "according to plan"… even if the plan is horrifying.The Joker
• 19 Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.Robert A. Heinlein
• 18 A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye.Klingon proverb.
• 25 We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.-Robert Wright, The Moral Animal
• 27 Train your tongue to say "I don't know", lest you be brought to falsehood -Babylonian Talmud
• 22 The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.Louis C.K., on Reddit
• 17 Nothing is so obvious that it’s obvious.— Errol Morris
• 20 Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.--Mike Tyson
• 22 Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.Lawrence Krauss
• 28 My brain technically-not-a-lies to me far more than it actually lies to me.-- Aristosophy (again)
• 26 “Anything left on your bucket list?”“Not dying...”-Bill Gates in his AMA on reddit.
• 20 Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.-- Karl Popper
• 27 If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance we can solve them.-- Isaac Asimov
• 23 "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."--Friedrich Nietzsche
• 26 A man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.Unknown
• 20 I honestly don't know. Let's see what happens.-- Hans. The Troll Hunter
• 26 Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.H.L. Mencken
• 27 The first rule of human club is you don't explicitly discuss the rules of human club.Silas Dogood
• 18 Good things come to those who steal them.-- Magnificent Sasquatch
• 14 "Anything you can do, I can do meta" -Rudolf Carnap
• 17 Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions - Daniel Kahneman
• 20 The singularity is my retirement plan.-- tocomment, in a Hacker News post
• 26 If Tetris has taught me anything it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.-Unknown
• 26 A faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.Arthur C. Clarke
• 21 Know the hair you have to get the hair you want.-Pantene Pro-V hair care bottle
• 14 I intend to live forever or die trying-- Groucho Marx
• 26 We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.-- F. A. Hayek
• 22 Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.-- Voltaire
• 19 In general, we are least aware of what our minds do best.— Marvin Minsky
• 19 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.J.S. Mill
• 25 A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.-Confucius
• 20 No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.-- Turkish proverb
• 25 If you were taught that elves caused rain, every time it rained, you'd see the proof of elves.Ariex
• 16 Keep your solutions close, and your problems closer.afoolswisdom
• 15 History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.-Mark Twain
• 11 Whenever you can, count.--Sir Francis Galton
• 19 God created the Earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.-- Dutch proverb