Someone said . . .

I wouldn't describe myself as habitually collecting quotes but a few, for whatever reasons, have been noted down or just remembered.

Like these!

Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM

I think there's a world market for maybe five computers

Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize winner for Physics

There is no liklihood man can ever tap into the power of the atom

Charles Duell, Director of the US Patent Office; 1899

Everything that can be invented has been invented

Tom Stoppard
The Guardian

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

HL Mencken
Sententiae

Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

Unknown

He who laughs last laughs longest - Because he's thought of a dirty meaning.

Spike Milligan

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Get it out with Optrex

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Quentin Crisp

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level, it's cheaper.

Unknown

If it changes colour, it's chemistry. If it moves, it's biology. If it doesn't work, it's physics.

Winston Churchill

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

Unknown, 2003 -
from a US courtroom transcript

Attorney:	All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
Witness:	Oral.