One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

The higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.