"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both."
— Marcus Aurelius
"It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white as long as it can catch mice."
— Deng Xiaoping
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
— Abraham Lincoln
"I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do."
— Charlie Munger
"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
— P.C. Hodgell