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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Travel I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "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) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Travel "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Travel My other wife is beautiful. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "'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, Through the Looking Glass) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Travel
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Travel The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Travel "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Travel
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Travel
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel 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 Man and wife make one fool. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Travel "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Travel
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Travel
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Travel
