Quotes from authors that died on Sep 9th
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
Jacques Lacan
Daniel Akaka 
Tony Shalhoub 
Wanda Sykes 
Felix Bloch 
Cathy McMorris 
Angela Bassett 
Edwidge Danticat 
Lewis Cass