Sean > Sean's Quotes

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series

“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
― H.L. Mencken, Gist of Mencken

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Science is the only religion of mankind.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. ”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
― Arthur C. Clarke