"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
Groucho Marx
"The steam engine has given more to science than science has given to the steam engine."
Lord Kelvin
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them for a century."
Montesquieu
"My dad's a good guy - he's smart. Well, he's too smart. When you're too smart, it goes around in a little circle and gets stupid again."
Rita Rudner