"... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer."

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense."

"Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat."

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

"So little done--so much to do."

"Why yes - a bulletproof vest."

"They can conquer who believe they can."

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

"A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries...."

"Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself."

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength."

"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature."

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

"All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?"

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."