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“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Societies that teach contentment with our present station in life, in expectation of post-mortem reward, tend to inoculate themselves against revolution.”
― Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World Science As a Candle

“They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”
― Philip C. Plait, Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“The trapdoor beneath our feet swings open. We find ourselves in bottomless free fall. We are lost in a great darkness, and there’s no one to send out a search party. Given so harsh a reality, of course we’re tempted to shut our eyes and pretend that we’re safe and snug at home, that the fall is only a bad dream.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
― Max Planck

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
― Jim Rohn

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Rohn

“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.”
― George Orwell

“Programs expand to fill the memory available to hold them.”
― Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems

“Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”
― Jim Rohn

“Mathematics requires a small dose, not of genius, but of an imaginative freedom which, in a larger dose, would be insanity.”
― Angus K. Rodgers.

“There are several conflicting explanations of exactly where the word "byte" came from, but since it sounds just like the word "bite," you can just think of it as a whole mouthful compared with a smaller unit, a bit. Just to show you that computer designers do have a sense of humor, when they use four bits as a unit, they call it a nibble. So you can eat a tiny bit of cherry pie, or have a nibble or take a whole byte.”
― J. Clark Scott, But How Do It Know? The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone

“All we have to do is to place a series of bytes
in RAM that represent a series of things that we want to do, one after another.”
― J. Clark Scott, But How Do It Know? The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone