Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996 42nd president of the United States (1946 - )

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Don Herold

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes" US cartoonist (1958 - )

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." 

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."