Gary > Gary's Quotes

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
― Robert Heinlein

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
― robert heinlein

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Robert J. Hanlon

“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love