My Favorite Quotes

This is a personal collection of my favorite quotes.
There's no systematic rule for inclusion of a quote, except the single criterion that I like it.
Many of them resonate with my own attitude, others strike my sense of humor. They are collected here for personal purposes: as reminders, or just in case I need something to quote.

Note: Some of the references are links to online versions of the original texts,
if they are easily accesible in the public domain.

The last time this page was seriously maintained was on Dec. 16, 1999.
Micro additions on May 31, June 10, Aug 8, Sept 26, 2000.
More content, though still without organization, on Oct 2, 2000.
More micro additions, Oct 9, 2000.
Some more micro additions, Jan 9, 2001; Feb 10, 2001; Mar 3, 2001; Apr 29.
Some links added, Nov 3, 2001.
Reorganize quotes, Nov 30, 2001.
Got excited about these additions, Dec 1, 2001.
Nanoadditions, Dec 3, 2001; Dec 10, 2001.
More nanoadditions, Jan 8, 2001.
Organize links, Jan 23, 2002.
Reorganization, many interesting additions, Apr 6, 2002.
Tiny refinements, Apr 11, 2002.
Reorganization, Apr 13, 2002.
AI & Logic quotes, Apr 19, 2002.
One nanoaddition, Apr 26, 2002.
Followed by more nanoadditions, Apr 27 - 28.
Corrections, Apr 30.
Corrections, May 14.
Reorganize and add to the religious stuff, May 26.
2004, Jan 20-21 New framework & New location
2004, Feb 4 Continue transfer to new format
2004, Feb 14 Continue transfer to new format
2004, Feb 17 Finish transfer; little modifications
2004, Feb 21, 22 Try to find references; found 50% for the first 100
2004, Apr 6, More references found, espec for math
2004, Jul 24, Add Perlis quotes
2004, Jul 25, Add Hamming quotes
2004, Aug 04, Add Feynman quote
2005, Mar 16, Add references for Kierkegaard
2005, Dec 6 or 7, Add references for Hilbert & Mandelbrot
2005, Dec 8, Add reference for Ramanujan
 

Gwen Stefani