"Si vis pacem para bellum!" (If you want peace, prepare for war!).

"But this one goes to eleven." - Nigel Tufnel (Spinal Tap)

"Morality is only cowardice most of the time"

"What would you try to accomplish if you knew you could not fail?"

"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him." - Sun Tzu

"Latency is an absolute limit of system architecture Just as "real" architects grapple with gravity, so with the speed of light London will always be 30ms from New York, regardless of Moore's Law"

"Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of ones secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?" - George F. Kennan

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." - Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons

``If you sit still and wait, everything will come to you.'''

``Testing reveals the presence, but not the absence of bugs.'' - Dijkstra

"Was man sich nicht denken kann, druber kann man auch nicht reden." - Wittgenstein

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." - Wittgenstein

"Quality is free." - Philip Crosby

"Go forward." - Gen. George Patton

"Never mistake movement for action" - Hemingway

"Solving operating systems problems with hardware interrupts is a lot like solving your own personal problems with heroin - at first it sorta works, but after a while things just get out of hand." - Fred B. Schneider, PhD

"When your opponent is holding all the aces, there's only one thing to do. Kick over the table."

"Saving face, I fear, is to have two of them"