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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. | If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. | ||
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===Life=== | ===Life=== |
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Science
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Alfred North Whitehead
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann von Neumann
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
- Harper's Index, October 1989
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls
- Matt Cartmill (Professor in Biological Anthropology)
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
- Evan Esar (Esar's Comic Dictionary)
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard Feynman
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
Life
金を残す人生は下、事業を残す人生は中、人を残す人生こそが上なり
- 後藤新平 (満鉄、帝都復興院総裁)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike, Assorted Prose (1965)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W. H. Auden
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates, Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
- Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman
Society
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Sports
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
- Muhammad Ali
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
- Jimmy Demaret
Comedy
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
- Sam Levenson
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
- Ronnie Shakes
Presidents
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
- Lyndon B. Johnson