Andru Vangheli, Dorina - Head of the Theoretical and Computational Department, West University, Timisoara. Includes her CV, publications and research links.
Acu, Cãlin Ioan - Web designer, includes personal information, photos, publications and few tutorials. [English/Romanian]
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens A "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain A
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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 A Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 A No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A
