Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Engineering Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Engineering
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Engineering Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Engineering
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Engineering This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Engineering
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "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 Engineering Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Engineering
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Engineering May you never leave your marriage alive. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Engineering
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Engineering If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Engineering
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Engineering "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Engineering
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Engineering Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Engineering
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Engineering Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Engineering
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Engineering He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Engineering
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Engineering The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Engineering
