Quotations are a recognizable piece of text that made an impression on us and at the same time reminds us of a specific memory or feeling. I have a file in Evernote with my favorite quotes. Here are a few: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchins/Carl Sagan(?)
"Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - Charles Darwin
"Those who are heartless once cared too much" - Daisy Lowe
"If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it." - John Carmack
"Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software." - Anonymous
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain
You are forgetting the great part about quotes: "The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity."-- Abraham Lincoln Rarely do people question the reality of the who said what where and when of a "quote". It is an assertion in the fiction of human reality that we create to solidify our place in the world.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/ hi psulli, I just happened across this great website while seeking to have a quote verified. I was looking up Einstein's alleged quote "only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not that sure about the universe." The quote investigator dug quite deep.
nicely put, Psulli - I checked Lincoln's quote and found a reference to it in a footnote to the Emancipation Proclamation and retweeted in the Gettysberg Address 10 months later. by the way, I check original sources of quotations. Secondary sources tend to have multiple variants.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain -- the Quote Investigator just read this page and informed me that this was probably not said by Mark Twain but was maybe only attributed to Mark Twain in a 1907 advertisement by Daisy Air Rifles.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/09/25/schooling-vs-educati... He's done an amazing investigation. Oh well. Mark Twain was certainly the kind of guy who would have said it.