Capitalism isn't the best.
— Karl Marx
Between social and planetary boundaries lies an environmentally safe and socially just space in which humanity can thrive.
— Kate Raworth
If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.
— Cecilia Payne
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
— Thoreau
Any opportunity that could be used by your subconscious for introspection and reflective thought should be quashed. For example, instead of staring out the window on a train journey, try rejecting hundreds of eligible life-partners on Tinder.
— James Shakespeare
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I see it, part of the act of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore, realizing that the game has changed and that the stakes are different and that there isn't necessarily a place for you in this strange new pantheon of extraordinary people.
— Watchmen
Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.
— Steve Jobs
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
— Carl Sagan
Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern.
— Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.
— Neil Degrasse Tyson
Sucking is the first step to being sorta good at something.
— Alexis Ohanian
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
— David Foster Wallace
I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
— John Green
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
— John Green
Truth resists simplicity.
— John Green
I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.
— Alan Moore
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
— Alan Moore
We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
— Ann Druyan
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
— Rachel Carson
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
— Galileo
Alcohol is only a depressant if your life sucks.
— Ben Hughes
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
— Martin Fowler
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
— Rene Magritte
When people are exposed to good electronic music they seem to like it.
— Tom Rowlands