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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking (1942 - )

"The messiah will come when we don't need him any more."
-Franz Kafka.

Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), Don Juan

Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

Go away. I'm all right.
H.G. Wells, last words

j. is for genius
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