John

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
― James Madison

“But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.

"Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
― Niels Bohr