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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Education
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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Education "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Education
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Education If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Education
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Education
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Education
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Education I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Education
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "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 Education
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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Education To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie 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 Education
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Education It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "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) Education
