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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Abroad "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Abroad
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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Abroad I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Abroad
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Abroad You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Abroad
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Abroad Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Abroad
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 Abroad Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Abroad
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Abroad Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Abroad
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Abroad No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Abroad
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Abroad There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Abroad
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Abroad We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Abroad
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Abroad I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Abroad
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Abroad Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Abroad
