I spent $3m on drink and $3m on gambling, but I wasted the rest.

-Daly,John
  On spending his winnings. Quoted in The Independent, 23 Dec.

Science and technology, like all original creations of the human spirit, are unpredictable. If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either topushitforwardor tostop it, isgambling inhumanlives.

-Dyson, FreemanJ(ohn)
  Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

Inside every banker, even the governor of the Bank of England, there lies a gambling streak. In me, they recognise one of their own kind.

-Kristol, Irving
Quoted in Michael Wilding and Pamela Wilcox  Apple Sauce (1982).

There are three roads to ruinöwomen, gambling and technicians.The most pleasant is women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

-Pompidou, Georges
  In the SundayTelegraph.