Quotes / Citazioni

In English

• "Boole, Leibniz and Goedel worked with logic.
  I work with logic.
  Thus, I'm Boole, Leibniz and Goedel."
  [Anonymous]

• "The issue is not whether you're paranoid, Lenny. ... The issue is whether you're paranoid enough."
  [Max Peltier to Lenny Nero, in "Strange Days" by Kathryn Bigelow]

• "Going to a technology school has to be a leading form of celibacy"
  [Alex Doonesbury, by G. Trudeau]

• "Leadership is Nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow."
  [Dogbert, by S. Adams]

• "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
  [P. Erdos]

• "Maybe meetings have become a lifeform capable of calling themselves
  and thus reproducing via human hosts."
  [Dilbert, by S. Adams]

• "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof
  is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
  [D. Adams]

• "Virtue is its own punishment."
  [O. Wilde]

• "An expert is a person who knows more and more about less and less,
  until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."
  [Anonymous]

• "Stop failing the Turing test."
  [Dilbert to his boss, by S. Adams]

• "Never trust a seven-year-old who shaves"
  [Calvin, by B. Watterson]

• "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
  [Voltaire]

• "I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
  [Hal 9000 in "2001: The Space Odissey"]

• "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
  [G. Marx]

• "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
  [Hobbes, by Bill Watterson]

• "Kiss a non-smoker, and enjoy the difference."
  [Anti-smoke ad.]

• "Science tip: log scales are for quitters who can't find enough paper to make their point properly"
  [From XKCD, strip \# 1162]

• "Melon and logic are like oil and vinegar. You can get them to mix, but it takes vigorous shaking."
  "Literal or methaphorical shaking?"
  "Yes"
  [From "Questionable content", strip #3962]

• "You despise me, don't you?"
  "If I gave you any thought I probably would."
  [Rick Blaine to Ugarte in "Casablanca"]

• "I'm offering you my body, and you're offering me semantics."
  [Caitlin Bree, in "Clerks"]

• "You're a little low on the food chain to be mouthing off, aren't you?"
  [Diego the tiger to Sid the sloth, in "Ice Age"]

• "Gerry, I'm a woman! We don't say what we want! But we reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get it."
  [Lydia, in "Sliding Doors"]

• "Dora just guilt-tripped me so hard I think I'm catholic now."
  [Faye, from "Questionable content", strip #645]

• "The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you. "
  [Tom, in "Four weddings and a funeral"]

• "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."
  [Dr. Hannibal `the cannibal' Lecter, in "The silence of lambs"]

• "ERROR ERROR CRITICAL PUN OVERFLOW"
  [J. Jacques, self-commenting a strip on Questionable Content]

• "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what can be. "
  [Neil Amstrong]

• "There is a cult of ignorance (...), and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
  [Isaac Asimov. ]

• "The best thesis defense is a good thesis offense."
  [From XKCD, strip \# 1403]

• "Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.
  And to make matter worse: complexity sells better."
  [Edsger Dijkstra]

• "God, please save me from your followers!"
  [Anonymous]

In italiano

• "La sequenza di eventi che porta una cosa a cui tieni a finire male è sempre molto più fantasiosa di te."
  [Io]

• "L'età matura comporta molti inconvenienti, primo fra i quali la sensazione frequente di circolare contromano rispetto al traffico impetuoso della storia. "
  [Michele Serra, Amaca del 31.03.2023]

• "Beati gli affamati di giustizia perche' saranno giustiziati."
  [A. Cecchelin]

• "Signori si nasce, ed io, modestamente, lo nacqui."
  [Toto`]

• "Se Dio esiste, spero abbia una scusa valida."
  [D. Pennac, "La fata carabina"]

• "Enti e privati hanno il diritto di istituire scuole ed istituti di educazione, senza oneri per lo Stato."
  [Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, Art 33, comma 3]

• "La statistica sta alla teoria della probabilita`
  come l'astrologia sta all'astronomia"
  [C. Monti]

• "A che titolo Nonna Papera cucina il tacchino?"
  [C. Bisio "La sindrome di Quo"]

• "Un Paese che distrugge la sua scuola non lo fa mai solo per soldi, perché le risorse mancano, o i costi sono eccessivi. Un Paese che demolisce l’istruzione è già governato da quelli che dalla diffusione del sapere hanno solo da perdere."
  [Italo Calvino]

• "Si possono usare tanti aggettivi per descrivere mio padre, ma non quello di delinquente"
  ha dichiarato Barbara Berlusconi spiegando le regole di Taboo.
  [pol1000, via "Spinoza"]

• Principio di conservazione dell'energia: "Con gnent no se ga` gnent."
  [C. A. Anesi]

• "La storia insegna, ma non ha scolari."
  [A. Gramsci]

• "Il matrimonio e` l'arte di risolvere in due problemi che da solo non avevi."
  [Anonimo]

• "La scarsita` di risorse si puo' affrontare solo con la scarsita` di idee."
  [E. Blanzieri]

• "Scritto ai tempi in cui lo ritenevo piu` ridicolo che pericoloso."
  [M. Serra "44 Falsi" (parlando di Silvio Berlusconi)]

• "Hai mai sparato prima d'ora?
  Ad una sagoma di cartone mai."
  [Da Nikita, di Luc Besson]

• "Lo amo: mi fa ridere."
  [Jessica Rabbit, in "Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit?"]

• "Il primo sintomo di un serio disordine mentale e` l'incapacita` di concentrarsi.
  Il primo sintomo di un serio disordine mentale e` l'incapacita` di concentrarsi.
  Il primo sintomo di un serio disordine mentale e` l'incapacita` di concentrarsi.
  ... "
  [Figowitz, by B. Rechin and D. Wilder]

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