"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs News and Media The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly News and Media
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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach News and Media He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th News and Media
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes News and Media Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward News and Media When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) News and Media
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) News and Media Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost News and Media If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. News and Media
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) News and Media "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels News and Media
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster News and Media Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) News and Media
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana News and Media A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry News and Media
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi News and Media
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla News and Media If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) News and Media
