My favorite quotes

This is a list of quotes which I find (or used to find) truly entertaining and/or insightful. The list is growing, slowly: one every couple of months or so.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Charles Darwin

"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." -- Henry Mencken

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry

"Doing great work takes less discipline than people think" -- Paul Graham

"I've noticed that a good poker player generally is a success in whatever business or profession he's in, or could be if he put his mind to it. Why? Because he understands people, and that's the foundation for success in this world." -- Maverick's Guide to Poker

"We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it." -- Stephen Hawking

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here.... I don't have to know the answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me." -- Richard Feynman

"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity" -- Vernor Vinge