I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Organisations May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. May you never leave your marriage alive. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Organisations
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Organisations The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Organisations
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Organisations Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Organisations
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Organisations Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Organisations
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Organisations Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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 Organisations
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Organisations My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Organisations
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Organisations Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Organisations
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Organisations Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Organisations
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Organisations Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Organisations "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organisations
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Organisations Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Organisations
