1. "The lyfe so short; the craft so long to lerne." — Chaucer

2. "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." — Latin proverb

3. "Art and science have their meeting point in method." — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Art and science have their real meeting point in trying to make the printer work." — K. A. Goldberg

4. "Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave.
But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait."
— K. A. Goldberg

5. "Reach(man) > Grasp"
— K. A. Goldberg, à la Browning

6. "If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need." — Kenneth Goldberg

7. "Life is too important to take seriously." — Hector Medecki (and maybe Oscar Wilde?)

8. "Quality is not an act, it is a habit." — Aristotle

9. "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought." — Albert Szent-Gyrgyi.

10. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln

11. "One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done." — Marie Curie

12. "There's a new security update for Windows users:
It's called Macintosh." — Ta-dum.

13. "Faced with a choice, do both." — Dieter Rot (Roth)

14. "...We are further removed from a deeper insight
into elementary processes than most of our contemporaries believe...."
— Albert Einstein

15. "...Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep on moving."
— Albert Einstein

16. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

17. "Three rules of work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
—Albert Einstein

18. "Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered." — Barry Targan

19. "You do not really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother." — Albert Einstein

20. "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
— Groucho Marx

21. "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."
— Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

22. "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." — Gandhi

23. "The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them." — Joseph Henry

24. "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" — Albert Einstein

25. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." — Henry Ford

26. "Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free." — Richard Avedon

27. "Quod Natura Munimento Inviderat Industria Adiecit
(What nature guards jealously, hard work has addressed)."
— Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (Orvieto).

28. "I am proud to be a heretic....
If I could persuade everyone to agree with me, I would not be a heretic. — Freeman Dyson.

29. "There's a fine line between physics and crazy-talk." — Kathryn Kefauver

30. "My female intuition trumps your science every day." — Kathryn Kefauver

31. "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." — Pablo Picasso

32. "New truths become evident when new tools become available." — Rosalyn Yalow

33. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." — Henry Ward Beecher

34. "Given enough coffee, I could rule the world." — Author Unknown

35. "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year." — John Foster Dulles

36. "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." — F. P. Jones

37. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." — Samuel Johnson

38. "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." — M. C. Escher

39. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — Dennis Gabor

40. "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists—to protect them and to promote their common welfare—all else is lost." — Barack Obama

41. "Sometimes the best thing you can do for something is nothing." — Kathryn Kefauver

42. "The idea that the universe is a giant hologram is interfering with my weekend." — Kenneth Goldberg

43. "CCD Background exposure: it's the new black." — Kenneth Goldberg

44. "If all you have is a microscope, the whole world looks like a defect." — Kenneth Goldberg

45. "It's not where you take things from—It's where you take them to." — Jean-Luc Godard

46. "It's easy to make things complex; the complexity is in making things easy." — Fortune Cookie