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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

—- J. Robert Oppenheimer, after watching the first test

"Sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it."

-- J. von Neumann, about Oppenheimer

Doubleplusgood, speaking as a bit of a quotation hound who hadn't come across that one. There's a whiff of La Rochefoucauld to it, too.