"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Computers and Internet All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Computers and Internet
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers and Internet There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Computers and Internet
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Computers and Internet Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Computers and Internet
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Computers and Internet Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers and Internet
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Computers and Internet Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Computers and Internet
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 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 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Computers and Internet
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Computers and Internet He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Computers and Internet
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Computers and Internet Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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
ha "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Computers and Internet Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Computers and Internet
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Computers and Internet "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Computers and Internet
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Computers and Internet Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Computers and Internet
