2007 December 16 updated
2007 December 16 updated
[authors are hyperlinked ==> click on underlined author's name]
“Mnemonics Neatly Eliminate Man's Only Nemesis - Insufficient Cerebral Storage”— http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/ —
“ . . . each snowflake falls in precisely the right place”
— ZEN Proverb —
“I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself — that is the best combination.”— Dame Judi Dench —
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
— Mark Twain —
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. —
(b.1922)
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
— Albert Einstein —
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
— Confucius —
(b.551 - 479 b.c.)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. —
(b.1922)
“ There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
— Albert Schweitzer —
(1875-1965)
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt —
(1884-1962)
“We trained hard - But it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.”
– Petronius (a first Century Roman) —
(c.27-26AD)
Rudy Guilani quoted "an unknown Roman author" in the 2006-September-11 [LKi] CNN interview
[just before the 5-year 9/11 Anniversary, when Larry King [LKi] asked,
“What he [Rudy] thought of homeland security?”]
“Poor George [Sr.], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
[in keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention]
–Ann Richards —
(b.1933 - d.2006)
“Poor George [Jr.], he was born with a silver spike in his head.”
– Mark Harvey (Lucky) —
(b.1943)
“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”
–Queen Elizabeth II —
“Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air.”
Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.”
— Ivan Pavlov —
“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”
(On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from an experimental computer at Harvard in 1945, quoted in Time 84 Apr 16)
— Grace Murray Hopper —
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein —
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
— Sir Winston Churchill —
“ The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
—Bertrand Russell —
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
— Isaac Asimov —
“Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.”
— W H Auden —
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ... the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
— Albert Einstein —
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley —
“To know a little less and to understand a little more:
That, it seems to me, is our greatest need."
— James Ramsey Ullman (climber, author) —
“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."
— Benjamin Franklin —
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
— Naguib Mahfouz —
“One who in the past had suffered much
in the wars and from the waves;
now he slept at peace forgetful of what he had suffered.”
— Homer, The Odyssey, xiii, c. 1000 B.C. —
“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller —
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
— Carl Sagan —
“Nothing comes easy that is done well.”
— Harry F. Banks —
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson —
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
— David Russell —
“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil”
— Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) —
“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”
– Clarence Darrow —
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles:
Find what it is that interests you and that you can do well,
and when you find it, put your whole soul into it
-- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”
— John D. Rockefeller III –
“I B.M., You B.M. We all B.M. for IBM”
– Peter Rowe [PRo] –
“Apple = 1 part engineering + 2 parts litigious + 4 parts attitude”
– Peter Rowe [PRo] –
(b.1948)
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss –
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas”
– Linus Pauling –
“The pupil, who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.”
– John Stuart Mill –
“There are JUST TWO kinds of computer users:
Those whom HAVE LOST DATA and those who WILL.”
– Peter Rowe [PRo] –
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein —
“God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.”
— [Serenity Prayer] — Rienhold Niebuhr —
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters,
putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life,
then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the
ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.”
— Theodore Roosevelt —
