Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, “I wanna grow up and be a critic.” Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD-ROM)

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. William Claire

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell, “1984”, first sentence

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce