Borer Chemie - Zuchwil - Producers of disinfectants and industrial cleaning products for aqueous and ultrasonic cleaning. Information on products and processes for each useage, company location, news releases, and FAQ included.
Eterna SA - Grenchen - Wristwatch manufacturers who created the ball bearing mounted rotor for self-winding movements. Details of available watches, company history, and events. [English/German/French]
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Solothurn "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Solothurn
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Solothurn Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Solothurn
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Solothurn "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Solothurn
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Solothurn Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Solothurn
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Solothurn Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "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) Solothurn
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Solothurn I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Solothurn
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Solothurn blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Solothurn
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Solothurn "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Solothurn
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Solothurn Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Solothurn
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 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. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Solothurn Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Solothurn
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Solothurn The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Solothurn
