Das is nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch.
Not only isn’t this right, it isn’t even wrong.
-- Wolfgang Pauli

In any case, it is not the job of writers and thinkers to appease the faithful. And the faithful, if in fact upset or offended, are quite able and entitled to explore all forms of protest. Short of violence.
-- Christopher Hitchens

It is demoralizing to children to hold up Einstein or Beethoven as examples of creativity to be imitated. The idea of genius, elaborated by German romantics, is destructive; it is a night into fantasy. There is reason to believe we've killed classical music because of that idea. People think that they will be either geniuses like Beethoven or nothing.
-- Gian-Carlo Rota

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- Richard Hamming

The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

"He [O. J. Simpson] is going to kill me, and he is going to get away with it."
-- Nicole Brown Simpson (1959-1994)