"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Arts and Entertainment I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Arts and Entertainment
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Arts and Entertainment The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment
My other wife is beautiful. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Arts and Entertainment "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Arts and Entertainment
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Arts and Entertainment
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Arts and Entertainment
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Arts and Entertainment Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
