There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Surtsey "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Surtsey
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Surtsey You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Surtsey
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Surtsey "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Surtsey
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Surtsey "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Surtsey
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Surtsey "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Surtsey
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Surtsey Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Surtsey
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Surtsey "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Surtsey
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Surtsey Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 Surtsey
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Surtsey The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Surtsey
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Surtsey When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Surtsey
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Surtsey Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Surtsey
