Friday, April 30, 2004

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

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