It’s all about numbers

«Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows» — George Orwell, in 1984.

Aha

«Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product»

– The King of Bhutan, in a response to accusations in 1987 by a journalist from UK’s Financial Times that the pace of development in Bhutan was slow.

In a few words

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” (Pablo Picasso)

“The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.” (David Emery)

“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” (Edsger W. Dijkstra)

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.” (Mitch Radcliffe)

More in 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes, via Peter Forret.

Scientists

«Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with Science.» — Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Vielen Dank to Mariam for the book… and to La Puce for reading it and pointing out the quote!

Dangerous

«Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it’s the only one you have» — Émile Chartier

(Via The Pragmatic Programmer, many thanks Ara!)