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"If you torture the data enough, it will confess." - Ronald Coase
"I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them." - Isaac Asimov
"We see only what we know." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyoergi
"It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens." - Marvin Minsky
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe." - John Muir
"Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things." - Virgil  
"Some things need to be believed to be seen." - Guy Kawasaki
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." - Isaac Asimov
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - William Lawrence Bragg
"Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based." - Anonymous
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." - Albert Einstein
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." - Marston Bates
"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last." - Hugh Walpole
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast." - Konrad Lorenz
"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood." - Teague's Paradox
"When something is used to its full potential it will break." - Poulsen's Theorem
"No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art." - Henry Petroski
"Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." - Anonymous
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps." - William Lloyd George
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
"Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately." - Dr. Karl Menninger
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." - Niels Bohr
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." - Dr. Who
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all." - Charles Babbage
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." - Joseph Joubert 
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb
"In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake." - Finagle's Third Law 
"It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus." - Carl Linnaeus
"Biology has at least 50 more interesting years." - James D. Watson
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - T. J. Watson (Founder and Chairman, IBM), 1943
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Science (1959)
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistiguishable from a feature." - R. Kulawiec 
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth 
"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it." - W. Chrysler
"Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning." - Anonymous
"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." - Anonymous
"Bad code isn't bad, it's just misunderstood." - Anonymous
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." - Andy Rooney
"I just wish my mouth had a backspace key." - Anonymous
"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?" - Anonymous
"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked." - Jeff Pesis
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris
"The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim." - Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out." - Tony Hoare
"Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence." - Edsger W. Dijkstra
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - H. Abelson and G. Sussman
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." - Charles F. Kettering 
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling
"Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more." - George Bernard Shaw
"But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." - Francis Darwin
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
"Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target." - Homer Burton Adkins
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts." - Richard Feynman
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts." - Sherlock Holmes
"I didn't think; I experimented." - Wilhelm Roentgen
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - K. Olsen (Founder and President, Digital Equipment Corporation), 1977 
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner
"If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it." - Ken Hill
"There are only two kinds of math books. Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page." - C.N. Yang
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobol
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." - Isaac Asimov
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." - Frank Tibolt
"That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!" - Wolfgang Pauli 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein
"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel." - E. B. White
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." - Albert Einstein
"To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know of one thing that isn't known." - Arthur Schawlow
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them." - John von Neumann
"Never express yourself more clearly than you think." - Niels Bohr
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford
"Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%." - Enrico Fermi (when asked what he meant by a miracle)
"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification." - Karl Popper
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." - Ashley Montague
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle 
"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: testing is the treatment." - K. Beck 
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." - R. Coveyou 
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - A. Maslow 
"Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject." - H. Morowitz 
"Life is good only for two things: to study mathematics and to teach it." - M. Poisson
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." - E. Schlossberg 
"It is better to have an approximate answer to the right question than an exact answer to the wrong one." - J. Tukey 
"Never put off until run time what can be done at compile time." - A. Glew 
"The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time." - M. Furst 
"The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization that built it." - R. Fairley
"Example isn't another way to teach. It is the only way to teach." - Albert Einstein
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - E. Dijkstra 
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge." - D. Boorstin 
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - E. Berard
"It is easier to measure something than to understand what you have measured." - Anonymous
"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever." - Anonymous 
