Intelligence is nothing without delight
- Paul Claudel
Careful! We don't want to learn anything from this.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson)
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living
that wears you out.
- Chekhov
Contention is better than loneliness.
- old Irish proverb; proposed netnews motto (RFC1609)
I don't think my name will mean much to the bear business,
but you're welcome to use it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
- Clark Kerr
Data without generalization is just gossip.
- Robert Pirsig
The point of philosophy is to start with something so
simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with
something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
- Wally (Scott Adams)
You know how every morning I make it a point to think about
doing twenty minutes of vigorous exercise? Well I think
it's doing me a lot more good than it actually is.
- Willy (Joe Martin)
Demagogue: One who preaches doctrine he knows to be untrue
to men he knows to be idiots.
- H. L. Mencken
. . .when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
however improbable, had better work or we're all in big trouble.
- [apologies to] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You can fool all the people all the time
if the advertising budget is big enough.
- Ed Rollins
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea
that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is
the matter with the rich is uselessness.
- George Bernard Shaw
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance
when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Business is more than making money; losing less money is
sometimes important too.
- Kim Woo-Choong
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.
- Too Much Coffee Man (Shannon Wheeler)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Find computer scientists you respect and listen to their
recommendations. When they are still making the same
recommendations a year later, look into it.
- Paul Dubois
Spend the optimal amount of time on each decision
and pretty soon you run out of life.
- Steven Waldman
01/2000:
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that
I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful
nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them.
- René Descartes
An advertiser will happily make you feel bad about
yourself if that will make you buy, say, a Bic pen.
- George Meyer
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
- Charles Carruthers
08/2000:
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save)
the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes
it hard to plan the day.
- E. B. White
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will
to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- Bertrand Russell
I know nothing about this subject but I do have
prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.
- Leon Botstein
The power of accurate observation is frequently called
cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Having your book made into a movie is like having
your ox made into a bouillon cube.
- Bill Neely
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that
no one needs to be good. - T. S. Eliot
It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep.
- Navajo saying
The asking of questions is in itself the correct rite.
- Confucius
It is necessary to be slightly underemployed if you want to
do something significant. - James D. Watson
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool
until he has stopped asking questions.
- Charles P. Steinmetz
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old,
and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and
therefore better." - Dean William Inge
I was going for a fair dose of irony and satire, and what
could be better than using Powerpoint and a projector?
- David Byrne
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right
answers as ask the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it
is the merger of state and corporate power.
- Benito Mussolini
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe
wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should
become credulous. - William K. Clifford
When my information changes, I change my opinion.
What do you do, Sir? - John Maynard Keynes
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without
learning is dangerous. - Confucius
Right now America is a superpower living on credit -
something I don't think has happened since Philip II
ruled Spain. - Paul Krugman
The most important of all medical discoveries is not antibiotics,
or immunization; it is the randomized double-blind test, by means
of which we find out what works and what doesn't. - Robert Park
Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
If you don't apply it when it's inconvenient
it's not a rule of law. - Admiral John Hutson
The greatest problem with communication is the illusion
that it has been accomplished. - George Bernard Shaw
