Simon

“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”
― Descartes René 1596-1650

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.”
― Donald Ervin Knuth

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
― Charles Darwin