"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." - Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays, 1928.
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M. C. Escher
"When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy 'icons' and 'windows'... all we had were zeros and ones - and sometimes we didn't even have ones." - Scott Adams (Dilbert)
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." - Albert Einstein
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." - (unknown)
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue." - Winston Churchill
"Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once." - (unknown)
"I know perfectly well that I don't want to do anything; to do something is to create existence - and there's quite enough existence as it is." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast or of one thing too exclusively" - Voltaire
"People tell you to give them your two cents worth, then they say they want a penny for your thoughts. Somewhere someone's making a penny" - Steven Wright
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." - John von Neumann
"Absence of proof is not proof of absence." - Michael Crichton
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying." - Woody Allen
"E pur si muove! But it does move!" - Galileo Galilei, according to legend, muttered under his breath after being forced to declare that the Earth always remains still.
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." - Jean Kerr
"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of." - Clarence Darrow
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
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