UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Computer Science Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Computer Science
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Computer Science Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Computer Science
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Computer Science Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Computer Science
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computer Science Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Computer Science
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Computer Science Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Computer Science
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Computer Science The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Computer Science
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Computer Science If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Computer Science
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia 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 Computer Science The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Computer Science
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Computer Science I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Computer Science
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Computer Science Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Computer Science
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Computer Science "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Computer Science
