Top short quotes (2009-2013) by karma per character:

• 55 A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit Alex Tabarrok
• 45 Luck is statistics taken personally. Penn Jellete
• 42 I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.Calvin
• 33 Comic Quote Minus 37 -- Ryan Armand Also a favourite.
• 34 Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.Ken Wilber
• 32 A problem well stated is a problem half solved.Charles Kettering
• 48 I will not procrastinate regarding any ritual granting immortality. --Evil Overlord List #230
• 29 The greatest weariness comes from work not done.-Eric Hoffer
• 26 "Most haystacks do not even have a needle." -- Lorenzo
• 24 "I accidentally changed my mind." my four-year-old
• 40 Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.-Joel Spolsky
• 31 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
• 39 People say "think outside the box," as if the box wasn't a fucking great idea.Sean Thomason
• 38 The Noah principle: predicting rain doesn’t count, building arks does. -Warren E. Buffett
• 37 It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s easier to lie without them. -Fred Mosteller
• 30 If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.-Seneca
• 34 It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.George Bernard Shaw
• 15 Focusing is about saying no.-- Steve Jobs
• 34 "Working in mysterious ways" is the greatest euphemism for failure ever devised.TheTweetOfGod
• 18 "A problem well put, is half solved." - John Dewey
• 34 Market exchange is a pathetically inadequate substitute for love, but it scales better.S. T. Rev
• 12 Death is the gods' crime.Unsounded
• 24 The most practical thing in the world is a good theory. Helmholtz
• 29 When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? John Maynard Keynes
• 30 “Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• 28 Writing program code is a good way of debugging your thinking. -- Bill Venables
• 28 It is easy to be certain....One has only to be sufficiently vague.Charles S. Peirce
• 30 Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John Von Neumann
• 31 There is one rule that's very simple, but not easy: observe reality and adjust. Ran Prieur
• 31 It's a horrible feeling when you don't understand why you did something.-- Dennis Monokroussos
• 26 Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?Jason Roy
• 21 Things are only impossible until they're not. -- Jean-Luc Picard
• 30 Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.--Professor Farnsworth, Futurama.
• 24 Part of the potential of things is how they break. Vi Hart, How To Snakes
• 26 The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.--Rory Miller
• 25 A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library. Daniel Dennett
• 29 We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it. Mark Twain
• 29 The Company that needs a new machine tool is already paying for it. -old Warner Swasey ad
• 25 "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from SCIENCE!" ~Girl Genius
• 26 Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. — Grossman's Law
• 22 Most people would rather die than think; many do. – Bertrand Russell
• 18 A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye.Klingon proverb.
• 22 The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.Louis C.K., on Reddit
• 28 My brain technically-not-a-lies to me far more than it actually lies to me.-- Aristosophy (again)
• 23 The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem
• 27 Nature draws no line between living and nonliving. -- K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation
• 26 “Anything left on your bucket list?”“Not dying...”-Bill Gates in his AMA on reddit.
• 22 It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others. Democritus
• 12 Reality is not optional. Thomas Sowell
• 27 If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance we can solve them.-- Isaac Asimov
• 17 Statistics is applied philosophy of science. A. P. Dawid
• 26 A man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.Unknown
• 22 Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. Lawrence Krauss
• 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
• 23 Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. Dean Schlicter
• 18 Good things come to those who steal them.-- Magnificent Sasquatch
• 24 We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. -Robert Wright, The Moral Animal
• 19 Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. Robert A. Heinlein
• 14 "Anything you can do, I can do meta" -Rudolf Carnap
• 17 Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions - Daniel Kahneman
• 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
• 26 Nobody panics when things go "according to plan"… even if the plan is horrifying. The Joker
• 23 "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." --Friedrich Nietzsche
• 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
• 20 I honestly don't know. Let's see what happens. -- Hans. The Troll Hunter
• 16 Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.--Jane Espenson
• 20 The singularity is my retirement plan. -- tocomment, in a Hacker News post
• 19 Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves. -- Karl Popper
• 11 Whenever you can, count.--Sir Francis Galton
• 22 Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.-Charles Babbage
• 19 In general, we are least aware of what our minds do best. — Marvin Minsky
• 20 It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.--Eric Hoffer, on Near/Far
• 15 Keep your solutions close, and your problems closer.afoolswisdom
• 18 "If God gives you lemons, you find a new God."-- Powerthirst 2: Re-Domination
• 17 Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.-Francis Bacon
• 23 Opening your eyes doesn't make a bad picture worse. http://onefte.com/2011/07/17/bully-for-you/
• 19 Know the hair you have to get the hair you want. -Pantene Pro-V hair care bottle
• 16 The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. -Alan Saporta
• 16 Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. — Wolof proverb
• 20 Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
• 18 Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.--Bruce Lee
• 9 AI makes philosophy honest -- Dan Dennet
• 18 God created the Earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands. -- Dutch proverb
• 20 "Just because you no longer believe a lie, does not mean you now know the truth."Mark Atwood
• 14 History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -Mark Twain
• 17 The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
• 18 The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself. -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 16 Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
• 20 Man, I'm amazing! I'm a machine that turns FOOD into IDEAS! -- T-Rex, Dinosaur Comics #539
• 17 What good fortune for those in power that people do not think. Adolph Hitler
• 14 We see things not as they are but as we are, ...- G. T. W. Patrick
• 19 You don't have to believe everything you think. Seen on bumper sticker, via ^zhurnaly.
• 19 The truth is out there, but so are the lies.-Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 1, Episode 17
• 13 Would anybody tell me if I was getting stupider? Mike Patton
• 13 We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.-Carl Winfeld
• 13 If I close my mind in fear, please pry it open. -- Metallica