When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (Edsgar Dijkstra)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)