"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Computers and Internet Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Computers and Internet
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Computers and Internet Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Computers and Internet
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Computers and Internet In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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-- Gerald Holton "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Computers and Internet
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Computers and Internet Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Computers and Internet The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Computers and Internet
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Computers and Internet
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Computers and Internet A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Computers and Internet Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Computers and Internet
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Computers and Internet If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Computers and Internet I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Computers and Internet
