Sysop Version Quotes

#1. If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself ... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

#2. Reading is good, action is better.

Eric Ries

#3. What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

Agatha Christie

#4. I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

John Cleese

#5. All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Kenneth Fisher

#6. Any excuse will serve a tyrant

Aesop

#7. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

John Dryden

#8. The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Sumner

#9. It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'

Bryan Cranston

#10. I had, even in this miserable condition, been comforted with the knowledge of Himself, and the hope of His blessing: which was a felicity more than sufficiently equivalent to all the misery which I had suffered, or could suffer.

Daniel Defoe