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Collection of quotes
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Miscellaneous Quotes
- "Friends come an go - but enemies accumulate."
Murphy's Law
- "... and sometimes the real trick is telling the difference."
Murphy's Law
- "You can always tell a really good idea by the enemies it makes."
Programmer's wisdom
- "Enemies you can trust always - Friends just most of the time, noone is perfect."
Unknown source
- "All human beings, by nature, desire to know."
Aristotle (384-323 B.C.)
- "He that hath many friends hath none."
Aristotle (384-323 B.C.)
- "Be careful of what you wish for. You may get it."
Unknown source
- "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Richard Feynman
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Clarke's Law
- "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- "Sleep? Isn't that a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine?"
Programmer's wisdom
- "Living with a programmer is easy. All you need is the patience of a saint."
Programmer's wives' wisdom
- "All programmers are optimists."
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- "Magic is real, unless declared integer."
The collected sayings of Wiz Zumwalt
- "Errors just exist to be found, repeating them voluntarily then."
Programmer's wisdom
- "Opposing something is easy, supporting anything is not that easy."
Unknown source
- "God doesn't play dice"
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Aristotle (384-323 B.C.)
- "Wer zu spät kommt den bestraft das Leben."
Michael Gorbatschow
- "Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared - but only men of character are trusted."
Unknown source
- "Know the enemy and know yourself - in a hundred battles you will never be in peril."
Sun Tsu
- "Old soldiers never die. Young ones do."
Unknown source
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Quotations from movies
- "Commanding a starship is your first best destiny."
Commander Spock in Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
- "I do not believe in a no-win scenario."
Admiral James Kirk in Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
- "Bureaucracy is the only constant in universe."
Leonard McCoy in Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
- "I always knew I will die alone."
Captain James Kirk in Star Trek V - The Final Frontier
- "Logic, Valeris, logic is only the beginning of wisdom, not it's end."
Captain Spock in Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
- "Guess who's coming for dinner."
Pavel Chekov in Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
- "In space all warriors are cold warriors."
General Chang in Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
- "It made a lot of fun..."
Captain James Kirk in Star Trek VII - Generations
- "... but ignorance and arrogance combined are unassailable."
Londo Mollari in Babylon 5
- "So wrong... how could I have... been so wrong...?"
Delenn in Babylon 5
- "No one here is exactly what he appears to be..."
G'Kar in Babylon 5
- "Mr. Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to think the way you do."
Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5
- "The universe is driven by the complex interaction between three ingredients: matter, energy, and enlightened self-interest."
G'Kar in Babylon 5
- "There is a hole in your mind..."
Assassin to Jeffrey Sinclair in Babylon 5
- "Houston, we have a problem..."
Commander James Lovell in Apollo 13
- "... for a moment only, earth shone brighter than the sun ..."
The Martian Chronicles
- "What is a magician but a practising theorist ?"
Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
- "Just one ping, Vassily, just one ping."
Captain Marko Ramius in Hunt for Red October
- "You need to know who is the predator when playing 'Hide and seek'..."
Captain Bart Mancuso in Hunt for Red October
- "I am the last one, what will you do when you killed me ?"
Draco in Dragonheart
- "Officially, he did never exist."
FBI Director Womack in The Rock
- "Men and their toys."
James Bond in Goldeneye
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John Carpenter - Escape from New York "Main Theme"
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