"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
— H.G. Wells

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference."
— Richard Dawkins

"The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work."
— Ray Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence)

"You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore."
— Jack Womack (Random Acts of Senseless Violence)