• "I can't imagine a more complete and precise answer to the question 'for what reason...?' than 'none'. The fact that you don't like the answer is your problem, not the universe's."- Lee Daniel Crocker
• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.- Isaac Asimov
• The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously. A joyful life is an active life - it is not a dull static state of so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian, filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create - such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the sake of growth and happiness.
• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
• Hyperboloids of wondrous Light

Rolling for aye through Space and Time

Harbour those Waves which somehow Might

Play out God's holy pantomime - Alan Turing's epitaph

• Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Douglas Adams

• "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

-- Hanlon's Razor

• "I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."

-- Bertrand Russell

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools- Napoleon Bonaparte
• Life is so short, we must move slowly- Thai proverb
• What we need is more people that specialize in the impossible- Theodore Roethke
• For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. - Douglas Adams
• The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.- Leonardo da Vinci
• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
• The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.- Douglas Adams
• Per aspera ad astra
• Audaces fortuna iuvat