"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like a ham and egg breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die."

The sermon had ended. The priest had descended. Much delighted were they, But preferred the old way.

"Dirty diapers and politicians should be changed every so often...usually for the same reason."

"A well behaved woman rarely makes history."

“The foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd length to which vicious specialization will carry scientists working in thought-tight compartments.”

“Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.”

"I'm not gonna fire a $2 million dollar missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt."

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.”

“There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”

"Those who give up freedoms for safety deserve neither."

"Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights."

"Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve."

“But what ... is it good for?”

"One man with courage makes a majority."

"America has been attacked not for what it has done wrong, but for what it has done right, and for being the hope of the world. If democracies do not unite to defend themselves, our world will become as tragically unrecognisable as the New York skyline."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”

"Radio has no future."

"Rationalizing is the bringing of ideals down to the level of one's conduct. Repentance is the bringing of one's conduct up to the level of one's ideals."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

“Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.”

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life there would be a shortage of fishing poles."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the people in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the people weeping When they bare the iron hand."

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decay and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than is own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

“There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.”

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.”

“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.”

“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?”

"I believe that people would be alive today if there was a death penalty."

"Though the edifice of the World Trade Centre, symbol of American prosperity, has fallen, the United States will stand. No catastrophe forged by man can fell that great nation of ideas and of liberty built on the hopes and freedoms of generations of freedom-seekers."

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."

"Money doesn't make you happy. Now I have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."

“That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.”

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you the opportunity to commit more."

"If a man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because we can't burn him."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear...not absence of fear."

"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."

"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. Love like you've never been hurt."

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing, it was here first."

“The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it. . . . Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.”

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

“[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of.”

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."