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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It’s the transition that’s troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (E. E. Cummings)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Black holes are where God divided by zero. (Steven Wright)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. (Edsgar Dijkstra)

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. (Salvador Dali)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Oscar Wildeupon arriving at U.S. customs 1882)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)