There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Balakliya An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Balakliya
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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 "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) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Balakliya I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Balakliya
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Balakliya To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Balakliya
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick 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 Balakliya The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Balakliya
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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Balakliya Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Balakliya
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Balakliya If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Balakliya
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Balakliya We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Balakliya
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Balakliya They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Balakliya
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Balakliya Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balakliya
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) 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 Balakliya "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Balakliya
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Balakliya "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Balakliya
