I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Science and Environment Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Science and Environment
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Science and Environment
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Science and Environment Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Science and Environment
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Science and Environment Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Science and Environment
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Science and Environment Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Science and Environment
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Science and Environment If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Science and Environment
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Science and Environment Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Science and Environment
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Science and Environment "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Science and Environment "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Science and Environment
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Science and Environment Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Science and Environment
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Science and Environment Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Science and Environment
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