“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

• Picard

Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes

(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))

“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

-G.K. Chesterton

As someone who loves space:

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke

“I ship is safest in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.”

“When people turn to you when shit goes wrong. That’s when you’re a man.”

We do not inherit the world from our ansestors, we borrow it from our children. -Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. - Mark Twain

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“Not everything’s a lesson Ryan. Sometimes you just fail.”

• Dwight Schrute :D

The future is unwritten.

• Joe Strummer

I am Índigo Montoya, you have killed my father, prepare to die

-Indigo Montoya

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

― Vladimir Lenin

george lucas’ greatest accomplishment is that he created an alien that accurately represented seven racial stereotypes