Quotes

These are various interesting and/or ironic quotes I have come across. They are arranged in the order I found them, with the most recent ones towards the top.

"If it looks like muck, and it puddles like muck, and it tracks like muck—it must be muck." Gilbert Levin, a former NASA Mars Viking life scientist, asserting that a Mars rover's interaction with the Martian soil suggested the presence of water. Quoted by David Leonard, "Mystery at Gusev Crater", SPACE.com, January 16, 2004.
"I am... confident that no attentive reader will mistake my repeated use of the generic pronouns "he," "him," and "his" for the exclusively masculine pronouns with the same spellings and pronunciations." Steven E. Landsburg, in the introduction to his The Armchair Economist, page ix, The Free Press, 1993.
"The real... will not be devalued." Paul E. Erdman, economist, author, and columnist, Tuesday, January 12, 1999, the day before Brazil devalued its currency, the real, on the CBS MarketWatch web site.
"It is unlikely to antagonize Pakistan by curtailing Kashmir's autonomy or the United States by going openly nuclear." Marshall M. Bouton, speaking of India's BJP taking power, in the May/June 1998 issue of Foreign Affairs on page 85.
"It seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl." Anne Frank, Saturday, June 20, 1942, in her diary.