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“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

“The only thing not to do in a crisis is to remain in the status quo. Up to the present every crisis has ultimately served as a springboard for progress”. –Turgut Özal

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil”. –Robert A. Heinlein

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing”. –Claudius

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently”. –Wernher von Braun

“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail”. –Ulysses S. Grant

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all”. –Michelangelo

“Its funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy”. –Hedy Lamarr

“I’ve met all kinds of people, oh, God, presidents and everybody else, and, I’m not too impressed with celebrity, with names now”. –Rube Goldberg

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it”. –Charles Kettering

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die”. –Herbert Hoover

“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I’m a billionaire”. –Howard Hughes