This seems as good a place as any to keep these.
As much as I have high hopes for the future, sometimes it seems that “the future” is just a place where you can buy a wider and weirder range of things more quickly and conveniently than before.
— Paul Raven
It seems like the only way for us to escape our errors is for someone to figure out the solutions, package them and sell them to us.
You say, “I’m great at multitasking.” I hear, “Delusion’s made my carelessness scalable.”
— Merlin Mann
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Scientists might have had a Hippocratic oath of their own. They might have promised their gifts to mankind. But instead, I have fathered a race of inventive dwarfs who can be hired for anything.
— Bertolt Brecht, The Life of Galileo (version by David Hare)