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The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson News and Media If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty News and Media
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words 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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be News and Media It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev News and Media
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 News and Media
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun News and Media This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber News and Media
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii News and Media Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke 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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea 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 News and Media I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel News and Media
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese News and Media
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) News and Media Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) News and Media
