I have seen the sea when it is strormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself. – Martin D. Buxbaum (1912–1991), in Table Talk
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them its like a treasure hunt, you know. – Will Wright
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. – Stanford Moore