Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Lastra a Signa "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Lastra a Signa
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Lastra a Signa Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Lastra a Signa
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Lastra a Signa Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Lastra a Signa
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Lastra a Signa Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Lastra a Signa
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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "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) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Lastra a Signa When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lastra a Signa
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Lastra a Signa "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Lastra a Signa
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Lastra a Signa Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Lastra a Signa
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Lastra a Signa Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Lastra a Signa
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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Lastra a Signa I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lastra a Signa
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Lastra a Signa The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lastra a Signa
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Lastra a Signa Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Lastra a Signa
