J.P. > J.P.'s Quotes

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
― Philip K. Dick

“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!!!”
― Peter Sellers

“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.”
― China Miéville

“... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

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

“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
― Henry Ford

“to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before”
― Douglas Adams

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”
― Larry Niven

“motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.”
― Jim Rohn

“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”
― Leon Bambrick

“In year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo Sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion. The total value of goods and services produced by humankind in the year 1500 is estimated at $250 billion, in today's dollars. Nowadays the value of a year of human production is close to $60 trillion. In 1500 humanity consumed about 13 trillion calories of energy per day. Today, we consume 1,500 trillion calories a day. (Take a second look at those figures -- human population has increased fourteen-fold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)”
― Yuval Noah Harari

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

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory