Nikita Khrushchev: The difference between the Soviet Union and China is that I rose to power from the peasant class, whereas you came from the privileged Mandarin class.
Zhou Enlai: True. But there is this similarity. Each of us is a traitor to his class.

It is too soon to say

[Zhou Enlai, when asked about the impact of French revolution]

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do

[Michael Porter]

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark

[Michelangelo]

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth

[Archimides]

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

[John Gilmore]

These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.

[Groucho Marx, Duck Soup]

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers
The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country;
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

[Yes Prime Minister, Season 2, Episode 4, A Conflict of Interest]