Edutech: Higher Education and New Technologies in Switzerland - Presents applications of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) in teaching at Swiss universities and other institutions of higher education, specially 'Swiss Virtual Campus'. It also serves as a meeting point for all persons and groups working in this field.
Swiss National Science Foundation - The SNSF supports scientific research at Swiss Universities and other scientific institutions and awards fellowships to young scientists.
Swiss Science Council - Advisory board of the Federal Council for all matters relating to science policy. Site includes extensive link collection.
Swisstalents - Database for scientists abroad - whether they are Swiss nationals or friends of Switzerland.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Higher Education and Research Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Higher Education and Research
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Higher Education and Research Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Higher Education and Research
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Higher Education and Research Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Higher Education and Research
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Higher Education and Research "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Higher Education and Research
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Higher Education and Research If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Higher Education and Research
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Higher Education and Research "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 Higher Education and Research
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Higher Education and Research If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Higher Education and Research
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Higher Education and Research The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Higher Education and Research
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Higher Education and Research "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Higher Education and Research
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Higher Education and Research I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Higher Education and Research
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Higher Education and Research Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Higher Education and Research
