"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
    - George Bernard Shaw

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
    - Arthur Schopenhauer

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
    - Buckminster Fuller

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex... It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction."
     - Albert Einstein

George Carlin, pretty much everything he ever said.