IM PAN - The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In Polish and English.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Math Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Math
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Math He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Math
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii My other wife is beautiful. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Math A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Math
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Math There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Math
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Math Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Math
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "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 Math I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Math
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Math "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Math
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi 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) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Math "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Math
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Math Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Math
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Math A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Math
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Math Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Math
