WALL O' QUOTATIONS

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

-- Friedrich Nietzshe, Epigram 156, Beyond Good and Evil

In the old days being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

-- Charles Manson

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

-- Mark Twain

The United States is the best planet on the earth.

-- Dan Quayle

The US is still the best nation in the country.

-- Spiro Agnew

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

-- Steve Biko, 1971

The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

-- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers

It ain't what you don't know that'll hurt you - it's what you do know that ain't true.

-- Will Rogers

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture.

-- Thomas Edison, 1913

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

-- Stephen Jay Gould

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

-- Albert Einstein

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

-- Picasso

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Why did they call it World War I, unless they knew it was the first of a series.

-- Paul Krassner

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

-- Picasso

Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks.

-- Dick Nicolosi (philosopher)

Treat your guest as a guest for two days; on the third day give him a hoe!

-- Swahili folk saying

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

-- Albert Einstein

All "isms" should be "wasms".

-- Abbie Hoffman

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr. on why he opposed Vietnam, 1967.

I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.

-- Leo Tolstoy

The variety of black-nationalist ideologies, from ... Clarence Thomas ... to those of Louis Farrakhan ... rest upon a fundamental truth: white America has been historically weak-willed in ensuring racial justice and has continued to resist fully accepting the humanity of blacks.

-- Cornel West, 1994

It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.

-- Malcolm X

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

-- Albert Camus

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.

-- Albert Einstein

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reconsider.

-- Mark Twain