Mind Sports Olympiad - Organisation based in London that provides an event for lovers of games and mind sports to battle for prizes.
British Othello Federation - Independent body organising tournaments around the country and promoting the game of Othello.
BuzzerQuiz - Open and student quiz competitions in the UK, including the Championship Series and the British Student Quiz Championships. Matches closely resemble University Challenge / College Bowl.
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "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) Clubs and Organisations "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clubs and Organisations
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Clubs and Organisations Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Clubs and Organisations
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Clubs and Organisations When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Clubs and Organisations
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Clubs and Organisations In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Organisations
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Clubs and Organisations Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Clubs and Organisations
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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" Clubs and Organisations Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Clubs and Organisations
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Clubs and Organisations The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Clubs and Organisations
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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Clubs and Organisations "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Clubs and Organisations
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Clubs and Organisations And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Clubs and Organisations
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Clubs and Organisations Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Clubs and Organisations
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Clubs and Organisations Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Clubs and Organisations
