"Stars & Stripes brought us to where we are today," said Conner in a
prepared statement to the news media. "However, four months of
defender trials have proven Young America's hull has speed
advantages. This boat and the proven strengths of the Stars & Stripes
team, will be a winning combination in the upcoming America's Cup.
-- Dennis Connor, right before losing three straight races
with his "winning combination".
Federal support for all arts
education, including music, is less than $21 million
annually for kindergarten through high school, $193 million
of taxpayer money is spent on military bands.
-- John Gannon in
Mother Jones.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Lord Grey of Fallodon, 1862-1933 3 Aug. 1914. *Twenty-five Years, 1892-1916* (1925), vol. ii, chap. 18.
"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is
NOTHING like Shakespeare." -- Blair Houghton
(Acquired 95Jul07)
"The principals have agreed that, as soon as possible, the
Internet will migrate from its current TCP/IP protocols to equivalent
protocols being defined by the International Standards Organization
(ISO). Of course, no one wants to adopt new protocols before they
have been tested and proved useful. The point is, merely, that in
cases where minor differences exist between the technology used by the
Internet and the rest of the community, the Internet changes to
accomodate the community."
-- Douglas Comer, "Internetworking with TCP/IP", 1988
"Managing programmers is like herding cats." -- Button my sortaMommy likes to wear.
"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of
intelligent people and the admiration of little
children...this is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We already have a second-rate OS..." *giggle*:
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuter) - Computer giant International Business Machines Corp. came close to swallowing Apple Computer Inc. last summer but decided, after high-level talks, not to carry out a takeover, an IBM executive confirmed Friday. According to the IBM executive, who declined to be identified, the strategic talks between top officials at both companies and an intermediary firm broke down after IBM decied Apple did not have enough to offer. ``We were in talks last summer,'' the official said. ``But we decided we already have a No. 2 operating system so why buy another No. 2 system.'' The IBM and Apple operating systems have been mutually exclusive, one's programmes unable to operate on computers of the other. There has been movement by independent computer makers to combine the IBM and Apple operating sytems, developing computers that will eventually be able to use both or either system to operate.
A US "Defense" Department official said more strikes were
planned over the next several days. NATO Secretary Generally
Will Claes said that alliance air action against Bosnian Serbs
would go on posisbly for days,, until the Serbs
stopped disregarding UN Orders...
-- 95Aug20 Seattle Time, front page.
And tucked inside her journal is a clipping of a Serbian war hero, and she has written: "I am going to hang little Croats on little poles. I am a Serbia child from my head unto my toes."
Those words were written in 1991 by a Serbian girl named Ivana when she was only 13 years old.
Ivana's family, like other Serb refugees, left this town in a hurry when Croat troops recaptured it and other areas during an early August offensive. Half-eaten bread and a cup of tea were left on a counter. Dentures and eyeglasses were on a table. Women's underwear hanging on a clothesline. Ivana's journal was on the floor of an upstairs bedroom.
Ivana's family had moved into the house in downtoan Kostjanica in 1991, after Serb troops took over this part of Croatia and evicted all its Croatian residents.
Now the town is back in Croat hands, and the Croatian owners of the house have returned. Discovering Ivana's journal, they planned to turn it and all the other reminders of war. A reporter who had accompanied them asked to keep it.
Like many others, Ivana seems to have vanished. What was left was her 148-page journal. Writeen over four years beginning when Ivana was 13, it's a collection of poems, songs and writings, most about the Serbian cause.
Ivana's writings show a fervor for the Serbian war that is familiar to those who study children in war. Her passion, say therapists asked to assess the journal, is not unlike that expressed by youthful supporters of Mao Tse-tung's cultural revolution or Hitler's propaganda machine.
These experts compare Ivana's diary to that of Anne Frank, who hid in Amsterdam for two years during World War II before being caught and sent to a Nazi concentration camp where she died at age 13.
"This is a unique document like the diary of Anne Frank. There aren't too many like this which we know of," said psychology professor Michael Merbaum of Washington University at St. Louis.
They also compare it to a diary written by Zlata Filipovic, a 10-year-old Bosnian girl from Sarajevo, and published last y ear.
But Frank and Filipovic saw themselves as victims and vented their feelings. Ivana writes of killing Croats and Muslims without remorse.
"You don't hear `Daddy says' or `Uncle Fred says,' you hear her saying these things," said psychiatrist Jaye-Jo Portanova of Torrance, Calif., a leading expert on child war victims. "She's emotionally cut off or numb and doesn't let her feelings in."
"You see a kid who has completely embraced this line of thought," Portanova added. "She has chosen to associate herself not as a victim but as a victor. It's the strongest position to take if you're going to survive in the long run."
To be sure, Ivana showed some teenage interests. Pictures of Hugh Grant, madonna and new Kids on the Block are taped to her walls.
But they pale next to St. George, a patron saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and her soldier drawings.
A list of Scandivanian names, one of which is outlined in hearts and has a telephone number, is also taped to her wall and included in the journal. They are believed to be the names of UN peacekeepers from Denmark posted less than 100 yards away at an observation post. The Danish commander refused to be interviewed. There is no answer at the number.
But her true love appears to be Serbia. The journal includes a map of the former Yugoslavia with the Serbian strongholds of Belgrade, Knin and Glina encircled by hearts.
She also has drawn a skull and crossbones around the Serbian symbol of four C's on a cross -- which stands for "Only Unity Saves the Serbs" -- and "K.S.S.: Circle of Serbian Sisters" -- a group of women who supported Serb soldiers by cooking their meals, cleaning their clothes, and even fighting.
Toward the diary's end, as Croat troops close in, Ivana writes: "I don't know what to do, really. European fascists from all sides are barking. They want to swallow our Serbia."
She then finishes: "Serbia is calling ... Bravely in the trench, I'll go. If I don't come back, light a candle in the church. Tell my mother, I was a hero... I fought with honor."
April 30, 1992: A bridge over the Sava River linking Bosnia and Croatia is blown up after a heavy night of Serb shelling.
Ivana, parroting a Yugoslav poem by changing, the words, writes, "Whoever says that Serbia is small is lying... It fought three times and it will fight again and again. It won't be a slave."
Jan 20, 1994: The United Nations suspends its airlift into Sarajevo after a second relief plane was struck by Serb sshells.
Ivana draws a picture of a black plane and copies a well-known Serb song: "We are the Serbian army. Our rifles are cocked. We are going to kill the (UN) guardsmen. We are going to slaughter (Croatian President Franjo) Tudjman and Croatia will fall. We are going to tear down Bosnia and kill (Bosnian President) Alia (Izetbegovic), that poor little Balia (a derogatory Serb term for Muslims). The grave is waiting."
May 6, 1994: Serb soldiers blast the UN haven of Gorazde.
Ivana, in what appears to be an original poem, writes: "The man from Serbia has fire in his gun and all of Europe is shaking. Tremple Europe, tremble. God is on the side of Serbia. God is guarding his Serbs."
(I'd guess that the reporter writing the above
didn't even consciously think of it as propaganda,
either...)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:07:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Furness Subject: Lab Dedication -- Sept 29, 1995 HITL Colleagues, Attached below is the text of my talk that I gave at the dedication/ribbon cutting today. Thought you might like to have it and maybe ponder it. Hopefully it is the vision that you also have of what we can do and what we can become. Thanks to all for making this such a wonderful and fulfilling place to work. Thomas A. Furness III, PhD Director Phone: 206.685.8626 Human Interface Technology Lab Fax: 206.543.5380 Washington Technology Center http://www.hitl.washington.edu Text Follows: A Vision for the Human Interface Technology Laboratory I have long held the belief that humans have unlimited potential. We have accomplished much in our civilization. In the past we have developed tools to augment our ability to manipulate mass and to send electromagnetic waves across distances to communicate. We have gone places on our planet and even beyond and have conquered mountains and diseases. Yet with all that we have accomplished there is still hunger in the world, and wars and crime and places where our children are not safe. We have exploited our planet to feed us, entertain us and to facilitate human enterprise, but have left behind our garbage... on the earth, in the earth and through the skies. I am now 52 years old. As a look forward to the remaining years I have left to be here, there is a burning within me to do something that will help make the world a better place. I am concerned about my children, their children and even their grandchildren and the legacy that we are leaving for them. I believe that we can solve these problems. That we can go where no man or woman has gone before. That we can soar by spreading wings we don't know we have. And that we can do this by creating with our technology new tools which tap that incredible resource of our minds, allowing us to amplify our intelligence much as the pulley or level amplifies torque, giving us a new strength and empowerment to address contemporary issues and the frontiers of our existence. Six years ago I came to the University of Washington with the dream of building a laboratory that would concentrate on developing interfaces between humans and their machines which were empowering. I came here because I had the belief that this objective could be accomplished best in an environment of learning and research. The rich diversity of talent and interests on this beautiful campus could be focused and cultivated to create new and better interface technology. This has happened. In these few years we have touched the lives of many who have crossed the portals of this Laboratory: children, people with disabilities, industrialists, teachers, physicians, librarians, scientists, students, faculty, legislators, media, investors. We have had success....but we can do more...much more. Up to this point I feel that we have just been getting organized and as a toddler, struggling with our first few steps...often falling and bumping our heads. But think what we can become, and what we can do and the legacy we can leave behind. I believe that basically we are bridge builders. We build bridges which span the gulf between human intelligence and machine intelligence. Bridges that allow us to interface with information. Our bridges explore= the dimensions of human physical and mental capabilities, allow us to gain understanding of the tasks which humans need to perform and then create the enabling technologies which link the two. The trusses in our bridge are new hardware, software and human factors technologies which create symbiosis between the human and the machine such that there is an ideal extension of human intelligence and intent in performing work. But our bridges also couple academia and industry. We teach by doing. Such a span allows two way commerce of ideas and technology leading to real products that are used by the citizens of the earth. Perhaps the greatest products to cross these bridges are our graduates who carry our vision and technology to seed, infuse and inspire enterprise. Our ultimate objective is to use our bridges to move minds to new worlds; worlds that bring us out of our childhood. Worlds that transcend human limitations and enrich our lives, worlds that bring us instantly together from anyplace on the earth, worlds that provide a place where we can learn, plan, mediate, gather our vast resources of knowledge to solve pervasive problems of hunger, crime, pollution and war. Worlds whose only limit is our imagination. In the end, perhaps we are not too different from our early ancestors, when the invention of the wheel provided a new kind of mobility. We too are dedicated to a new kind of mobility...mind moving... but with the end= goal of making our lives, and those of future generations, more complete and fulfilling. For as we move here, a candle flickers in Tibet. To this end we dedicate this place, these hands, these minds and this Laboratory. Thomas A. Furness III September 29, 1995 (Speech given at the dedication of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory after the remodeling project and prior to the sealing of the time capsule.) ------- End of Forwarded Message
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of
science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with
the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that
won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall,
1957
"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM,
1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
Equipment Corp., 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no
value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would
pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for
investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred
Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and
not Gary Cooper."
--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
"Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields'
Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
--Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for3-M
"Post-It" Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even
built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or
we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come
work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard,
and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college
yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get
Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal
computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction
and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which
toreact. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in
highschools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's
revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of
your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have
to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of
weight training."
--Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable"
problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?You're
crazy."
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project
to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University,
1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
--Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
--Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-
Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981
From: rjs@rpcp.mit.edu (Richard Jay Solomon)
While some of these quotes are true, others are proven urban myths.
Neither Harry nor Sam Warner said that about talkies (though I have often seen it ascribed to one or the other). Indeed, in 1927, Warner Bros. was betting the farm on sound movies, funded the "Jazz Singer," and later won an important patent infringement against Western Electric on sound movies.
No one at Western Union wrote that memo. It was forged many decades later as a joke. W.U. was actively pursuing telephone patents in the late 1870s; they just bet on the wrong inventor and settled out of court with AT&T later. Actually the story is very complicated, but they liked telephones enough to build systems even before Alex.
Tom Watson, Sr. didn't even know what a computer was in 1943 -- they were top secret and the only one was in Britain at Bletchley. Von Neumann made that statement in 1954 (I have witnesses on tape) when he was a consultant to IBM on the 701. Watson Jr. was the one who pushed the machine through IBM. He was an optimist. He estimated that they would sell twenty 701s, and they only sold 19. The U.K. Ministry of Trade put out a report around 1951 stating there was only need for ONE Commonwealth computer and there were going to put it in India so they could fly the printouts to all parts of the Empire with equal time. Von Neumann was responding to that report -- he thought he was being optimistic but cautioned that after all the math "problems" were solved, we should scrap all but one machine, and keep that last one in the Smithsonian for demos. He was right. His Edvac is in the Smithsonian.
The Woz _was_ working for HP. He quit when they turned him down on the Apple I breadboard, sold his humongous HP calculator, and went into business with Jobs.
The Sarnoff memo was also a forgery to make him look good. Again, the real story of radio is much more complicated. Sarnoff wasn't even a player at the time.
I wonder about the other stories.
Richard Conrad:
"The key concept is dissipation. This is the criterion, indeed the measure, of irreversibility, in other words, the measure of the system's inability to run backwards. This inability is fundamental for life and is the basis of adaptability, for a system which could run backwards would have no possibility for holding on to whatever unusual characteristics distinguish it from its environment (e.g., high energy content, low entropy, details of organization which form the basis of biological function). But even more important for adaptability, it would have no possibility for forgetting the insults visited upon it by this environment.
"Just imagine how intrinsically incoherent the concept of a reversible man would be. Or, more simply, imagine a mechanical system such as an undamped harmonic oscillator and suppose that we perturb the system by imparting to it an extra bit of energy. The system will certainly never forget this perturbation, for its energy (kinetic plus potential) is constant. If a motion picture of such a system were run backwards it would make absolutely no difference to the viewer, excluding the occurrence of the perturbation. In other words, it has no history of its own.
"Now imagine that we add some friction to the oscillator. The end state will be the same (no motion) regardless of the initial conditions or any subsequent perturbations. Indeed, in this case all would be forgotten and a reversed motion picture would certainly look both peculiar and surprising, for it now would show an infinite number of possible diverging past histories.
"The frictional oscillator (for example, a damped pendulum) is clearly dissipative, for the rubbing of parts is concomitant to a rise in temperature and subsequent equilibrating flow of heat to the environment, with a net increase in the entropy of the world. An even simpler example is the compression and subsequent free expansion of a gas. The final state of the gas has complete amnesia for the particular characteristics of the compression. In each case the automatic tendency for macroscopic symmetry to increase gives a preferred direction to the behavior of natural systems in time. It is a preference which biological systems must combat to maintain their high order and complexity, or, more precisely, which they must utilize to drive the local production of such order and complexity. But from our point of view this preference plays an even more important role, for it is also the preference which ultimately dissipates the effects of the unexpected."
"In 1993, we saw this as something that is very interesting. In 1994, we saw it as something that is
very, very interesting. In 1995, we saw it as something that is very, very, very interesting," he said.
"We're giving it our highest priority."
-- Bill Gates on Internet, quoted in 95Dec08 AP story on Nando.net.
In 1948, at the dawn of television, the U.N. General Assembly adopted Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which said: ''Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.''
An Internet axiom credited to John Gilmore, an engineer at a Silicon Valley networking company, puts it succinctly. ''The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,'' he said.
"How unreasonable it would be to suppose that, besides the
heaven and earth which we can see, there are no other
heavens and no other earths?"
-- Teng Mu, "The Lute of Po Ya",
13th century AD (translated by Joseph Needham for "Science and
Civilization in China".)
"When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
-- Phil Zimmerman
"Few are better than their fathers were, the greater number are worse; few are as good as their fathers were." -- Homer
"Fall in love with what you do for a living. I
don't care what it is. It works."
(aiff)
-- George Burns, dead 96Mar09
"Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life."
- comedian John Rogers (who holds a graduate degree in physics)
"The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: 'Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.'"
- John P. Wiley Jr., quoting Edward R. Harrison (a cosmologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Smithsonian Magazine, December, 1995
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov
"Believe me : happiness is shy
And comes not aye when sought, man"
-Robert Burns
"Unix: 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof"
-D.E. Knuth
"We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and running code.
IETF Credo
Dave Clark (1992)
"Never express yourself more clearly than you think"
Niels Bohr
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in
a very narrow field."
Niels Bohr
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and
I'm not sure about the universe."
A.Einstein
"Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment,
swells into a theorist."
Dr Samuel Johnson
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Henri Poincare
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
and other headlines from 1997.
"It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they
drive him into the profession of a school-master."
Seneca (c. 5 BCE-65 CE)
"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Facts Concerning My Recent Resignation.
(More education quotes.)
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever."
"A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his
own opinions."
"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."
"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."
"Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence."
"Beware a man of one book."
"The best armor is to keep out of range."
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
"An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold."
"The church is near, but the way is icy. The tavern is far, but I will
walk carefully."
"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him
yourself."
"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."
"All things good to know are difficult to learn."
"By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn."
"God gives the nuts but he doesn not crack them."
"If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup."
"It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees."
"A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass."
"Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure."
"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."
"When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby."
"Whose bread I eat: his song I sing."
"With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle."
To see the World in a grain of sand,
"A planet doesn't explode of itself," said dryly
"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning
before he speaks."
"Nothing endures but change."
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why
you did it wrong."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
"However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day,
even an hour and minute, when some significant
action is performed for the first or last time."
--Peter Quennell
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask
and he will tell the truth."
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
"If you can't return a favour, pass it on."
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small steps."
"Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut."
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe."
"If you want work well done, select a busy man -- the other kind has no
time."
"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names."
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
"Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be
right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong."
--Lord Mansfield
"The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows."
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
"Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift."
"There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it
won't last."
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't."
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only
you can determine how it will be spent. Be
careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?."
--Frank Scully
"Never try to reason the predjudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned
into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
"Never murder a man who is committing suicide."
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a
cathedral. The size of the project means little
in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character
that really counts."
"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use."
"Well done is better than well said."
"Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
"Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait
to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do
your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait
to get out - and you can't wait to come home,
because the soup is hot."
--George Burns
"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."
"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm."
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
"You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for
himself."
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I
have no respect."
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past,
the neglected opportunity."
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force
to an immovable object."
"Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw
off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"Progress is not created by contented people."
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
The pessimist complains about the wind;
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe."
"It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have
any bait on your hook."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his
punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"Twenty-two years of tofu is a lot of time."
"The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates
"I am tired and sick of war," said William Tecumseh Sherman. "Its
glory is all moonshine. It is only
those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans
of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more
vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
-- Chinese proverb (Many more proverbs.>
-- Proverb
-- Chinese proverb
-- Greek proverb
-- Chinese proverb
-- Spanish proverb
-- English proverb
-- Italian proverb
-- Scottish proverb
-- Romanian proverb long predating Bill Gates.
-- Ukranian proverb
-- Proverb
-- Italian proverb
-- Greek proverb
-- Latin proverb
-- German proverb
-- Turkish proverb
-- Arab proverb
-- Sioux proverb
-- Portuguese proverb
-- African proverb
-- Nigerian proverb
-- German proverb
-- French proverb
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour...
--William Blake, from Auguries of Innocence
The Martian astronomer, gazing off into the air--
"That they were able to do it is proof that highly
Intelligent beings must have been living there."
--John Hall Wheelcock,Earth
--Euripides
--Heraclitus
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
--Herman Melville
--Edward Phelps
--William Shedd
--Publius Syrus
--Oscar Wilde
--Josh Billings
--Louise Brown
--David Lloyd George
--Daniel Greenberg
--Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
--Elbert Hubbard
--Elbert Hubbard
--Henry J. Kaiser
--Aristotle Onassis
--George S. Patton
--Miss Piggy (Muppet character, by Jim Henson/Frank Oz)
--Jules Renard
--Eleanor Roosevelt
--Theodore Roosevelt
--Carl Sandburg
--Sydney Smith
--Woodrow Wilson
--Frank Loyd Wright
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
--Robert Browning
--Winston Churchill
--Winston Churchill
--Winston Churchill
--Anatole France
--Galileo Galilei
--Edward Gibbon
--Omar Idn Al-Halif
--Flannery O'Connor
--Laurence J. Peter
--Mark Twain
--Frank Tyger
--Voltaire
--Voltaire
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
--William Arthur Ward
--H.G. Wells
--Dial West
--Oscar Wilde
--Paul Obis, creator of Vegetarian Times, on his decision to start
eating meat, 1997
"The unlived life is not worth examining" -G.B. Shaw