+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the
+right thing at the right moment to push us forward."
+
-- Jon Meacham
+"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We
+spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If
+during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate
+with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
+
-- Gene Roddenberry
"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes...
but because he hits all the right emotions."
@@ -40,6 +52,20 @@ and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
+"If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed
+on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some
+other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science
+were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure
+it all out again."
+
-- Penn Jillette
+
+
+"A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees light at the end of the
+tunnel. A realist sees a train coming. The train's engineer sees three
+idiots standing on the track..."
+
-- Unknown
+
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -59,6 +85,10 @@ commit resources, or nothing new will ever be created."
"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence."
-- Will Henry
+
+"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."
+
-- William Shakespeare
+
"Kids are more nimble than wise..."
-- Nancy Gibbs, in a Time opinion piece