You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Education We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Education
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Education "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Education
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Education Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Education
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Education I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Education 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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Education
"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) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Education
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Education When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Education Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Education
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Education
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Education "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Education
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Education Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Education
