"Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long."
-- Gene Cernan

"Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid."
-- Spider Robinson, Distraction

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
-- Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode

"Faith is Hope given too much credit."
-- Matt Tuozzo

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace, to Napoleon, explaining why his works on celestial mechanics made no mention of God.

"'For, finally, one can only judge oneself by one's actions,' thought Elric. 'I have looked at what I have done, not at what I meant to do or thought I would like to do, and what I have done has, in the main, been foolish, destructive, and with little point. Yyrkoon was right to despise me and that was why I hated him so.'"
-- Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné

"You will quickly find that if you are completely and self-deprecatingly truthful about how much you owe other people, the world at large will treat you like you did every bit of the invention yourself and are just being becomingly modest about your innate genius."
-- Eric S. Raymond

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble is that consciousness theories are very easy to dream up... Theories that explain intelligence, on the other hand, are fiendishly difficult to come by and so are profoundly useful. I don't know for sure that intelligence always produces consciousness, but I do know that if you assume it does you'll never be disappointed."
-- John K. Clark

"Intelligence is silence, truth being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this."
-- Ned Rorem, "Random Notes from a Diary"

Presently the mage said, speaking softly, "Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks...

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