I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Accommodation Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Accommodation Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Accommodation
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Accommodation We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Accommodation
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Accommodation "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Accommodation
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Accommodation Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Accommodation
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Accommodation Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Accommodation
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Accommodation Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Accommodation
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Accommodation Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Accommodation
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Accommodation The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Accommodation
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Accommodation I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Accommodation
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Accommodation Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Accommodation
