"I am standing on the threshold about to enter a room. It is a complicated business. ...... To step on it is like stepping on a swarm of flies. Shall I not slip through? No, if I make the venture one of the flies hits me and gives a boost up again; I fall again and am knocked upwards by another fly; and so on. I may hope that the net result will be that I remain about steady; but if unfortunately I should slip through the floor or be boosted too violently up to the ceiling, the occurrence would be, not a violation of the laws of Nature, but a rare coincidence... Verily, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a scientific man to pass through a door." - A. S. Eddington
"The great philosophical value of game theory is in its power to reveal its own incompleteness. Game-theoretical analysis, if pursued to its completion, perforce leads us to consider other than strategic modes of thought." - A. Rapoport
"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good." - Marquis De Vauvenargues
The teacher asked his pupils to choose books on which to write a brief review. One lad chose the phone book. He wrote on his report: "This book hasn't got much of a plot, but boy, what a cast!" - a joke
"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers" -Hamming's motto