Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computer Science "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Computer Science
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Computer Science The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Computer Science
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computer Science 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, There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Computer Science
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Computer Science A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Computer Science
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Computer Science The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Computer Science
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Computer Science Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Computer Science
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Computer Science Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Computer Science
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Computer Science I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Computer Science
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Computer Science Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Computer Science
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Computer Science Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Computer Science
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Computer Science "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Computer Science
