“The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.”

        — William E. Simon

“Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.”

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

        — John Dewey

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

        — Flannery O’Connor

“Everyone is famous for 15 Gigabytes.”

        — Cory Doctorow

“The man who never reads lives only once.”

        — George R. R. Martin