but the scars are so interesting

One is never so pretty after being mended, you know.
-the dainty china Princess, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum

ultimate practicality

None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces.
-Wicked Witch of the West, Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I just don't feel motivated to run that maze

There’s no such thing as depression in mice.
-Jerry Cott, psychopharmacologist, kansascity.com

fight the power

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
-Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

it's not a memory machine

The human brain... the mind... is a quantum-state holistic standing wavefront.
-Dan Simmons, Olympos

wwbkd?

The rubber face. There’s only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that’s your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?
-Jon Stewart, nytimes.com

we know only that we do not know

Seventeen is nothing. You're still in the womb.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

-Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!