A popular anti-religion argument says that science moves ever onward and constantly seeks development, whereas religion is dogmatic. However, although fixed thinking may get us nowhere fast, riding the wave of science and technology leaves us no time for contemplation. The pace of progress leaves us no time to think.

— Sam McAuliffe, The Urgency of Art

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want.

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

…the only people who claim that testing can be fully automated are vendors of testing tools.

— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

The phalanstery may be all ready, but your nature isn’t ready for the phalanstery, it wants life, it hasn’t completed the life process yet, it’s too soon for the cemetery!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera