José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (20 May 1935 – 13 May 2025) was a Uruguayan politician and farmer who served as the 40th President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was imprisoned for 12 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, h...| en.wikiquote.org
It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.If the entire soul, then, follows without rebellion the part which loves wisdom, the result is that in general each part can carry out its own function—can be just, in other words—and in particular each is able to enjoy pleasures which are its own, the best, and, as far as possible, the truest.Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding ...| en.wikiquote.org
Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is...Once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams—eventually continued by Eoin Colfer after Adams' death— that began as a BBC radio comedy series in 1978 and expanded into a 1981 TV series, a series of novels, and a 2005 feature film. The story follows the adven...| en.wikiquote.org
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a turn-based strategy computer game, where the player controls one of several human factions on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. It is similar to the Civilization series of games. However, being a science fiction game set over 100 years in the future from the time of its design, the designers had wide latitude to develop a backstory to go along with the game, which they enriched with quotes and fictional works by the game's seven playable leaders, as well as the...| en.wikiquote.org
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.| en.wikiquote.org
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.Donald Ervin Knuth (born 10 January 1938) is an American computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and winner of the 1974 Turing Award.| en.wikiquote.org
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philos...| en.wikiquote.org
C. A. R. Hoare, 2011.Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, and winner of the 1980 Turing Award. He is best known for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages, and for the development of Quicksort, the world's most widely used sorting algorithm.| en.wikiquote.org
Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum theory, and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics. His ideas were heavily influenced by monist philosophy and he is particularly well known for original interpretations of the significance of the wave function and for devising the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.| en.wikiquote.org
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the main theorist of Leninism. He married th...| en.wikiquote.org
Love is wise – hatred is foolish.The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. In 1950, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.| en.wikiquote.org
Alan Kay (2008)Alan Curtis Kay (born 17 May 1940) is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.| en.wikiquote.org
