Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed.
— President Dwight D.Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
— Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
WD-40 was created in 1953 by three technicians at the
San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes
From the project that was to find a "water displacement"
Compound. They were successful with the fortienth
Formulation, thus WD-40
As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
— Sir Peter Ustinov
Everything science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
— Wernher von Braun
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a "mouse". There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
— John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984