Favourite Quotes

[quddusaliquddus]

What are your favourite quotes?

[ShawnD]

Basically anything Samuel L Jackson says.

"I'm a mushroom cloud laying mothaf***a, mothaf***a"
"I am the foot f***in masta"
"God came down from heaven and stopped these motha f***in bullets"
"you know cops tend to notice s*** like you're drivin a car drenched in f***in blood"

Some of his best work is in dialogue though, he's Jules.

Jules: Hey f*** nigga what the f*** did you just do to his towel, man?
Vince: I was dryin my hands
Jules: Well you're supposed to wash em first
Vince: Well you watched me wash em
Jules: I saw you get em wet
Vince: I was washin em, this s***'s hard to get off; maybe if I had lather I could do a better job
Jules: I used the same f***in soap you did and when I finished the towel didn't look like no god damn maxipad

Ah I love that movie :biggrin:

[quddusaliquddus]

Lol. This can only mean one thing - we can't forget The Godfather. :D

[ShawnD]

I didn't like that movie at all. Seemed like it went way too slow... sort of like Lord Of The Rings.

[quddusaliquddus]

Hmmm....I guess we all have our tastes... :D

[tribdog]

I taste salty

[Trogdor]

"sometimes I talk about tires and sometimes I talk about shopping carts"

[Trogdor]

Newton died an 84 year old virgin

[rathma]

And you know this why?

[jimmy p]

A good quote is from Maynard James Keenan.

"Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false fingernails, sixteen pounds of assorted make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a "real" man."

However one of my fav's has to be:

"Eat well, stay fit, die anyway."

or this one from Robin Williams....

"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."

[The_Professional]

I like people, especially with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

[tribdog]

"Isn't that a bit excessive?" ~Vlaad the Impaler
"That's one small step for man..." ~Christopher Reeves

[Trogdor]

"Guess what! I got a fever! and the only prescription is more cowbell!" ~ Christopher Walkin (best actor ever) Blue Oyster Cult snl skit

[Chrono]

"Women, they make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world ... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant."
- Sartre

"The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind."
-Yagyu Jubei

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
-Lao Tzu


Good stuff, isn't it?

[Janitor]

"What this country needs is a good ten-cent cigar."
- Heinrich Himmler

[anvil]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Tom Waits

[jimmy p]

"My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading."
-- Steve Jobs (Founder: Apple Computers)

"Hockey is a sport for white men.
Basketball is a sport for black men.
Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."
-- Tiger Woods

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-b*tch."
-- Jack Nicholson

[Njorl]

"I would never belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member." Groucho

Richard Kimble:I didn't kill my wife!
Marshall Girard:I don't care.
from the movie "The Fugitive"

"You'll shoot your eye out." Multiple people in "A Christmas Story"

"But ... these go to eleven. That's one louder." - "Spinal Tap"

"Who remembers the Armenians?" - Hitler

"Just as sore eyes cannot stand light, and prefer darkness, so it is with the body politic in times of trouble and humiliation. " -Plutarch, Life of Phocion

Njorl

[jimmy p]

"Dogbert: If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Dilbert: But I'm allergic to citrus.
Dogbert: If life give you lemons, swell up and die."

:biggrin:

[Kerrie]

A good quote is from Maynard James Keenan.

"Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false fingernails, sixteen pounds of assorted make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a "real" man."

However one of my fav's has to be:

"Eat well, stay fit, die anyway."

or this one from Robin Williams....

"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."


love maynard's lyrics :smile: and Robin Williams is one of the most brilliant comedians ever.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ~
Lily Tomlin

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy

[quddusaliquddus]

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin"

LOL ... never thought of it like that!

[Robert Zaleski]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"The future ain't what it use to be"

Both attributed to Yogi Berra

[motai]

Marge: "Bart! You cant tell God to kill Sideshow Bob!"
Homer: "Yeah, do you own dirty work!"

hehe

[Ebolamonk3y]

"[Alone] I like, at times, to hear The Ancient's word,
And have a care to be most civil:
It's really kind of such a noble Lord
So humanly to gossip with the Devil!" - Mephistopheles -- Faust

[tribdog]

"There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." ~Morpheus
"The body cannot live without the mind." ~Morpheus
"Guess who watched "The Matrix" last night?"~Tribdog

[RBS_5]

Never decide to buy something while listening to the salesman.

If there is an opportunity to make a mistake, sooner or later the mistake will be made.

Being sure mistakes will occur is a good frame of mind for catching them.

Check the answer you have worked out once more -- before you tell it to anybody.

When in doubt, mumble.
When in trouble, delegate.
When in charge, ponder.

~Murphy's Laws :approve:

[swansont]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
Maj. Gen. John Sedgewick, killed by a sniper in 1864 at the battle of Spotsylvania

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James D. Nicoll

English was a language invented by Norman invaders to pick up
Anglo-Saxon barmaids. It retains much of this character.


Only crackpots think the plural of anecdote is evidence

[Ivan Seeking]

How do you get a giant squid through a revolving door? - Lazo-Wasem, Zoologist
http://leisure.newstimes.com/story.php?id=65188

Now there's a problem that I never considered.

[The Bob]

'The only way to improve at something is to start from the beginning and work up again.'
- The Bob (unless anyone knows someone who said it first)

The Bob (2004 ©)

[The_Professional]

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."

-Victor Frankl

[Gokul43201]

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
-Victor Frankl

Riddle : What came first, the Frankl or the JFK ?

They were contemp's, weren't they ?

[Janitor]

Said by a weary wife in Chicago:

Da Bulls. Da Bears. Da-vorce.

[Janitor]

Said by Coach Frank Kush after his placekicker missed a field goal that would have won the game:

He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a handful of popcorn.

[Moonbear]

"It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married."
George Burns

I just came across this one recently and really thought it was great (George Burns was such a great comedian).

There are some more serious ones I'm fond of, but I'd have to look them up to get them right.

[Gokul43201]

This is all your fault, Moonbear.

Here's a few Woody Allen gems :

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him 'be fruitful, and multiply.' But not in those words.

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

[humanino]

BoulderHead, that is really outrageously gross :eek: :eek: :yuck: :yuck:

:rofl:

[Gokul43201]

Like I said before...

Now it's too late to stem the flow of crassitude.

[string_theory]

"It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married."
George Burns




I just came across this one recently and really thought it was great (George Burns was such a great comedian).

There are some more serious ones I'm fond of, but I'd have to look them up to get them right.

simply wonderful, thank you for bringing it here...

[Smurf]

"Ideas are far more powerfull than guns, we don't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have Ideas"
-Josef Stalin

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
-Karl Marx

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things as men."
-Plato

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."
-Alexander, King of Macedon.

[string_theory]

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."

this sucks...

[Smurf]

you suck...

[Gokul43201]

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. - unknown

[string_theory]

you suck...
f... u

I did not say anything to u...

I said to what Marx said.

[Smurf]

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. - unknown

I don't get that, weren't vacuum cleaners around before Microsoft??

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

I don't get that, weren't vacuum cleaners around before Microsoft??
he is saying that the vacuum wont suck up dirt and stuff, therefore it wont suck, nd it doesnt matter if microsoft was around before or after vacuums

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

here is one i like
"tread softly, for you are treading on my dreams"yeats

"some poeple dont see the light until it comes shining through bullet holes"

[BoulderHead]

BoulderHead, that is really outrageously gross :eek: :eek: :yuck: :yuck:

:rofl:
Yeah, after the drugs wore off I decided to delete the post...but, here's a couple more from the same animal;


I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks.
-Emo Phillips

I ran three miles today, finally I said "lady take your purse."
-Emo Phillips

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
-Emo Phillips

[jimmy p]

"I met this gangster who pulls up the back of people's pants, it was Weggie Kray."

I like that one!

[Dagenais]

Here are a few I like from 2 favourite shows, I had quite a bit of trouble choosing:

Homer: There's your giraffe, little girl.
Ralph Wiggum: I'm a boy.
Homer: That's the spirit. Never give up.


Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Homer: I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.


"I can't carry a pen. I'm afraid I'll puncture my scrotum."
- George, in "The Parking Garage"


"So you feel 'women and children first' in this day and age is somewhat of an antiquated notion."
"To some degree."
"So, basically, it's every man, woman, child and invalid for themselves."
"In a manner of speaking."
"Well, that's honest."
"She should be commending me for treating everyone like equals."
"Well, perhaps when she's released from the burn center she'll see things more clearly."
- Jerry and George, in "The Fire"


"You don't know my name, do you?"
"Yes I do."
"What is it?"
"It, uh, rhymes with a female body part."
"What is it?"
"Mulva..."
- Dolores and Jerry, in "The Junior Mints"


"We only wake you up for the important meetings."
- Yankee exec, to George, in "The Comeback" :biggrin:

[Smurf]

You forgot:
Homer: If at first you don't succeed, cheat untill caught, then lie.

[ShawnD]

Trying is the first step towards failing.

[Ivan Seeking]

Why do it now when I can wait until tomorrow? If I wait until later I'll be under pressure. I work better under pressure. - Charley Brown

[poolwin2001]

If I have seen less than others, it's because some giant's shoulders were always in the way-anonymous :rofl:
Orbis Non Sufficit -James bond :rofl:
"I don't mind coming to work - I just don't want to stay when I get there." :rofl: Louis H. Albert, Deputy, Summit County, Ohio
P.S.DO you have the feeling that you have seen these somewhere?? :wink: :biggrin:

[Echo 6 Sierra]

I drank what...?

Socrates

[Gokul43201]

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"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

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981

[poolwin2001]

"In almost all textbooks, even the best, this
principle is presented so that it is impossible to
understand." (K. Jacobi Lectures on Dynamics,
1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with
tradition.

[Ivan Seeking]

Jimmy Carter was on the Charlie Rose Show talking about the book co-authored by he and his wife, Rosalyn Carter, and about their lives together
- called Sharing Good Times.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743270339/qid=1102639711/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-9641466-5048618?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Quoting Jimmy Carter [approximate]: " We could agree on 97% of what happened but we couldn't agree on the other 3%...and it was an important 3%. It got so bad that it nearly ended the effort. We just couldn't agree on what had happened.

...I was amazed at Rose's defective memory!" [smiles broadly].

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[fourier jr]

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen, Side Effects

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Anonymous

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the guy next to me.
Woody Allen

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

I've just developed a proof that demonstrates that, where n>2, the equation a^n+b^n = c^n cannot be solved with integers. Unfortunately, my train is coming.
Graffiti in a subway station

I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468 ,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,0 31,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
Albert Einsten

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
David Hilbert

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."
J. E. Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.
Wolfgang Pauli commenting Einstein's lecture

Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse (1872)

There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest" part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
Richard Davisson

"Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
Woody Allen

I don't want to be immortal through my work. I want to be immortal through not dying.
Woody Allen

More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen

Physics is much too hard for physicists.
David Hilbert (that's the best one on the list)

A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Erdös, Paul

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give s a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."
Halmos, Paul R

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
von Neumann, Johann

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
Rosenblueth, A

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Paul Erdos (another good one)

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.
Stan Ulam

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, `Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
Graham, Ronald

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
da Vinci, Leonardo

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

I am a passenger on the spaceship, Earth.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune
Chomsky

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations
Chomsky

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since
Salvador Dali

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making
Salvador Dali

The world will admire me. Perhaps I'll be despised and misunderstood, but I'll be a great genius, I'm certain of it
Salvador Dali

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction
Salvador Dali

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
Winston Churchill (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)

I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught
Churchill again

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love
Einstein

[0TheSwerve0]

Journey with me into the mind of a maniac
born to be a killa since I came out the nut sac - Natural Born Killas
- care of loseyourname

[0TheSwerve0]

Any Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what mymother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he could.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

-- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book.

"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him. `Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.'"


-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people in the Universe.

[ek]

"Poker is not about this hand, next hand or the last hand, it is about the future thousands of hands and you must be confident good plays and good players will win out in the end."

That's a quote I made up to calm myself after a horrible player bad beats me in a certain hand.

[matthyaouw]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all 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.

[Smurf]

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

(Depends on the translation, but the meaning is more or less the same)

[Ivan Seeking]

"Well, I've got this thing with Pioneer," Anderson said.

"I almost fell off my chair," Nieto said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=10&u=/latimests/20041221/ts_latimes/gravitymayloseitspull

[Ivan Seeking]

In fact, I like this one from Anderson even better. :biggrin:
But somehow, the choice one makes affects one’s outlook and direction of attack. If one has to consider new physics one should be open to both points of view. In the unlikely event that there is new physics, one does not want to miss it because one had the wrong mind set.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0104/0104064.pdf

[dextercioby]

ODERINT,DUM METUANT!

Caius Cicero,"Phillipicae",17.

Daniel.


PS.An unofficial translation in English would be:"Let them hate me,but at least fear me!".In Romanian it sounds:"Sa ma urasca,dar sa se teama de mine!!".

[stoned]

"If you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America, you're given a front-row seat"
George Carlin.

[Mk]

I didn't read everything but I"m sure someone mentioned that a "Your Favorite Quote" thread was posted a few weeks ago.

[zanazzi78]

Any Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotations
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what mymother told me when I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he could.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

-- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book.

"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him. `Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.'"


-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people in the Universe.

my favourite Hitchhiker`s quote;

"buttons aren`t toys!"

[zanazzi78]

I didn't read everything but I"m sure someone mentioned that a "Your Favorite Quote" thread was posted a few weeks ago.

You are right. In fact this is the 3rd "Favourite quotes! thread i`ve read since joining PF.

I`ve probably posted these before but I`ll subject you all to my sense of humour again;

On the back of a box of matches;
"The hardest thing in life is convice a woman than even a bargin costs money"

Some Oscar Wilde quotes i like:

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Now for my favourite science quotes:

"Much like a great work of art ,a beatiful equation has among its attributes much more than mere attractiveness - it will have universality, simplicity, inevitablity and an elemental power." - words written by Graham Farmelo in the book It must be Beatufull, Great Equations of Modern Science.

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Einstien

"The measure of a being of a man of my type, lies not in what he thinks and how he thinks but in what he does and suffers." - Einstein

[Tom Mattson]

"Seeing the universe through the eyes of a child is easy. Actually catching a child and removing his eyes, now that's the hard part."
--Can't recall the source, but Another God used it as a sig line.

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. Whey they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
--Frank Sinatra

"Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the bone."
--Billy Connolly

"The jerk store called, they're running out of YOU."
--George Costanza

"I'd rather let 1000 guilty men go free than chase after them."
--Chief Wiggum

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
--Carl Sagan

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
--Richard Feynman

"He who laughs last, thinks slowest."
--Seen on a T-shirt

"If you can't laugh at yourself, then can you at least keep quiet while I laugh at you?"
--Tom Mattson

[Lisa!]

"If unbron people knew what's going on in this world, they would never come to this world!" -A scientist

"Someone should die. In order the rest value the life more" -Nicole Kidman in Hours

"Who could you laugh at if there were no stupid person in this world?" -Me

[Kazza_765]

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
--Richard Feynman
I can't believe I haven't heard that one before. I'm going to use that :rofl:.

[Ivan Seeking]

Reported tonight on Washington Week, on PBS.

A source close to the Bush administration stated: "George Bush is the kind of person who, if he were sitting next to you at a dinner, you'd be looking over his shoulder for someone more interesting.

and continued... "We are now in the post Bush republican era".

That's the best quote that I've heard in six years.

[1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21]

" You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his."

Gen. George Patton
if i ever becomea contributer that will be my signature.
and my avatar will be the guy from monty python and the holy grail who makes the horse clop noise.

[Smurf]

"Someday, on your tombstone, there will be two dates - and nobody realises that all that mattered to you was that small dash inbetween"
" You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other son-of-a-***** die for his."

Gen. George Patton
if i ever becomea contributer that will be my signature.
Think that says something about a person?

[Evo]

One of my favorite quotes is by Einstein "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Another favorite is by Matt Groening of the Simpsons - "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

[matthyaouw]

"Someday, on your tombstone, there will be two dates - and nobody realises that all that mattered to you was that small dash inbetween"


I like that. Who said it?

[Astronuc]

Professor's response to his students who were complaining that the problems and work was too hard!

"It's supposed to be hard.

If it was easy, then nobody would pay you to solve the problem!"

:rolleyes: :rofl:

[scott_alexsk]

"You know, I got a real warm feeling from that lady talkin' about how she adopted all of those children or was that just the booze?"
-unknown

[Lisa!]

I'm abit romantic today, so::blushing:

"I love you not because of who you are,
But because of who I am when I'm with you...
No man or woman is worth your tears,
And the one who is won't make you cry.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean that they don't love you with all they have...
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand,
and touches your heart.


The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting
Right beside them knowing that you can't have them.
Never frown, even when you are sad,
Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person,
But to one person, you may be the world.

Don't waste your time on a man or woman
Who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
Maybe God wanted us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one.
So that when we finally meet the right person,
We will know how to be grateful...
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened...
There's always going to be people that hurt you. "

I guess that's Paolo Coelo's(did I spell his name correctly?:shy:)

[Astronuc]

Nice poem Lisa!

Close enough on Coelho's name - http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/ :cool:

Read the "Fifth Mountain" - very intense.

"In order to love someone, one has to know the someone." - ancient wisdom


Never frown, even when you are sad,
Because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
To the world you may be one person,
But to one person, you may be the world. Very good perspective to keep in mind :approve: :smile:

[Jimmy Snyder]

Dormio, ergo dubito (I dream, therefor I doubt)

Last night I was falling. Or so it seemed. I considered that when I reached the ground I would die. But then I awoke and was safe in my bed. Or so it seemed.

[Vincent Vega]

From Boondocks:

"The absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence." __ Gin Rummy

"There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns, but there are unknown unknowns. Things that we don't know that we don't know." __ Gin Rummy

[Garth]

Lady Astor [First woman member of the British Parliament (although originally American)] meeting Winston Churchill coming out of a wartime 'all night sitting' -
"Sir you are drunk!"

Winston Churchill -
"And you madam are ugly, but in the morning I shall wake up sober."

Garth

[Astronuc]

Some quotes from Eugene Wigner

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

[While] solipsism may be logically consistent with present quantum mechanics, monism in the sense of materialism is not.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. from creative quotes

[heartless]

I have many favorite quotes on many subjects, but here are some of the one s about life that I like:

"No child should be permitted to grow up without an excercise for imagination" - Mark Twain

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and... I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"... but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man." - E.B White

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry Thoreau

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - unknown

Thanks,

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I've heard it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game is the losers refrain, this is BS, if you take that simple message to heart in life and the game it implies you won't go far wrong.

Lifes a beach, but just when you get used to the water, the tide goes out.

There are more questions than answers, but the more I find out the less I know.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Some people would rather die than think: some people do.

as you can tell I'm a bit of Bertrand Russel fan, although not all of them are his quotes.

[jimmie]

Perhaps, the only flaw in the universe was my perception of the universe.

Beauty is all that is, and that is all it is.

That is the only way: Rightintent.

Create your own quote.

jimmie

[kahless2005]

That Patton Quote is one of my favourtes. I also really enjoyed that Robin Williams one on page 1.

"I READ YOUR BOOK!" -Patton to Rommel after defeating Rommel

Back off man, I'm a scientist- Peter Venkman

Listen, do you smell something? - Ray Stanz

What did you do Ray? - Peter Venkman

[0TheSwerve0]

Buffy: It's about power. (Lessons)

[0TheSwerve0]

k, couldn't stop there. Just two more Buffy quotes and I'll leave it alone.

(Buffy and Giles stand in front of Buffy's friend's grave.)
Buffy: Does it ever get easy?
Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
(After a moments pause)
Buffy: Liar.


Angelus: It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

[Astronuc]

Some people are like slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you can't help but :smile: (or :biggrin:) when you seen one tumble down the stairs.

Somebody on the net.

[enigma]

There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though.

Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.

Both quotes by Dave Akin (http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html)

[0TheSwerve0]

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Lady Astor [First woman member of the British Parliament (although originally American)] meeting Winston Churchill coming out of a wartime 'all night sitting' -
"Sir you are drunk!"

Winston Churchill -
"And you madam are ugly, but in the morning I shall wake up sober."

Garth

My favourite has got to be

Lady at a tea party after getting into an argument with Winston Churchill.

Lady: Sir, if you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea!

Winston Churchill: Madame, if you were my wife I'd drink it!

[devious_]

Education is what remains when what is learnt is forgotten.

[TheStatutoryApe]

"So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin` to the core"
Floggin Molly - Another Bag of Bricks

[scott_alexsk]

"Sucess is measured by how far you bounce after you hit bottom."
-Winston Churchill(?)

[Jonny_trigonometry]

"If at first you don't succeed, bash it with a rock" - My friend Charlie

[JamesU]

"If at first you don't succeed, bash pengwuino" - Yomamma

[ranger]

"Whenever something goes wrong in the US, a Bush is behind it." -- some dude that hates GWB.

[fourier jr]

a couple that i read recently:

"No matter what it is, there is nothing that cannot be done. If one manifests the determination, he can move heaven and earth as he pleases. But because man is pluckless, he cannot set his mind to it. Moving heaven and earth without putting forth effort is simply a matter of concentration."
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure (aka the Way of the Samurai)

"Go on, sir, go on. The difficulties you meet with will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed; and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."
D’Alembert, note to a student found by Arago

[Hootenanny]

"Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."

-Mark Twain

[kant]

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given"- albert einstein

[Lisa!]

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." _Christine Cagney, Cagney & Lacey.(mod's sig in another forum)

Nice poem Lisa!

Close enough on Coelho's name - http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/ :cool:

Read the "Fifth Mountain" - very intense.


Thanks!:smile:

[scott_alexsk]

"The only laws people diligently obey are those of thermodynamics."

[Hurlbert]

Cowards Die many deaths, before they die. - Fredrick Nieche

[sebas531]

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth"-Archimedes

[Astronuc]

Businessmen will strive to make money at the expense of the environment as long as they think like CEOs and not grandparents.

Government will only do as much as the people demand.

Pete Seeger - Earth Day, 2006

[Astronuc]

I am interested in everyone and everything, and how it all fits together...which used to be normal, now they call me a Renaissance Man.

Evan Pritchard.
http://evansearthwalk.blogspot.com/2006/03/wednesday-march-29th-2006-after.html

The first part applies to me, but then I was never normal. :biggrin:

[Reshma]

"Failures are stepping stones to success, but I always step on a falling stone." -Anonymous

[siddharth]

"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary, and those who don't"

[Astronuc]

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." :rofl:

In memory of John Kenneth Galbraith, who died at age 97, April 29, 2006.

[DeadWolfe]

"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!" - Homer Simpson

[Dawguard]

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none."--Lucius Seneca.

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."--Barry Goldwater

"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities which have never in truth be known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done moves towards self-destruction rather than self-preservation. The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."--Niccolo Machiavelli

[fourier jr]

There are four way to know much: live for many years; travel through many lands; read many good books (which is easiest); and converse with wise friends (which is most enjoyable).
Baltasar Gracian

The great reader of a great book said that he had found only one defect: it was neither so brief that he could memorize it, nor so long that he would never finish it.
Baltasar Gracian

If that life of mine, which only concerns myself, is not directed by me towards something, it will be disjointed, lacking in tension and in form. In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

You should do it even if you think you can’t, since it will teach you a lot....
Stephen Willard, General Topology p.121

[George Jones]

"Having thus outlined my program and declared my allegiances, I leave the reader to decide whether to proceed further, or to open another beer, or both, or both."

R. Hughes in the preface of his book The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.


"He was not of an age, but for all time!"

"The only thing you done was yesterday"

It's kind of sad that this last quote was made, but the bad grammar and the wordplay make it amazingly effective as a scathing comment.

Regards,
George

[Astronuc]

"Having thus outlined my program and declared my allegiances, I leave the reader to decide whether to proceed further, or to open another beer, or both, or both." Now that's the way to study QM. :rofl: Cheers, George!

I love this quote from a BBC caption: "Clouds present huge problems for scientists who model the climate." :rofl: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4944058.stm

[fourier jr]

No human being ever yet made a success trying to be somebody else, even if that person was a success. Success cannot be copied – cannot be imitated. It is an original force – an individual creation. Every man will be a failure just in proportion as he gets away from himself and tries to be somebody else and express somebody else instead of himself. Power comes from within or from nowhere.
Orison Swett Marden

It is either easy or impossible.
Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

When I first applied my mind to mathematics I read straight away most of what is usually given by the mathematical writers, and I paid special attention to arithmetic and geometry because they were said to the simplest and so to speak the way to all the rest. But in neither case did I then meet with authors who fully satisfied me. I did indeed learn in their works many propositions about numbers which I found on calculation to be true. As to figures, they in a sense exhibited to my eyes a great number of truths and drew conclusions from certain consequences. But they did not seem to make it sufficiently plain to the mind itself why these things are so, and how they discovered them. Consequently I was not surprised that many people, even of talent and scholarship, should, after glancing at these sciences, have either given up as being empty and childish or, taking them to be very difficult and intricate, been deterred at the very outset from learning them… But when I afterwards bethought myself how it would be that the earliest pioneers of philosophy in bygone ages refused to admit to the study of wisdom anyone who was not versed in mathematics… I was confirmed in my suspicion that they had knowledge of a species of mathematics very different from that which passes current in our time.
Rene Descartes

It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard what the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon. Master Ittei said, “Confucius was a sage because he had the will to become a scholar when he was 15 years old. He was not a sage because he studied later on.” This is the same as the Buddhist maxim, “first intention, then enlightenment.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

[Ivan Seeking]

When in Rome, do as the Romanians.

Condi? She is a great Sec of State...you know, she reads the newspapers.

-- Bush impersonator

[fourier jr]

Let us recall that at the start we distinguished the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter the one who makes no demands on himself, but contents himself with what he is, and is delighted with himself. Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man, who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline – the noble life.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the majority of men – and of women – are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to an external compulsion. And for that reason, the few individuals we have come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort stand out, isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Jose Ortega y Gassett

The fact that you believe implicitly that you can do what may seem impossible or very difficult to others, shows that there is something within you that has gotten a glimpse of power sufficient to do the thing. Many men who have achieved great things cannot account for their faith. They cannot tell why they had the implicit confidence that they could do what they undertook, but the result was evidence that something within them had gotten a glimpse of latent resourcefulness, reserve power, and possibilities which would warrant that faith; and they have gone ahead – often when they could not see a ray of light – with implicit confidence that they would come out all right, because this faith told them so. It told them so because it had been in communication with something within them that was divine, that which had passed the bounds of the limited and had entered the domain of the limitless.
Orison Swett Marden (loves his long sentences :tongue2: )

[Tojen]

Under capitalism, men exploit men. Under communism, it's the other way around. --John Kenneth Galbraith

[Lisa!]

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)

[Astronuc]

"Never let adversity stand in the way of having a really wonderful time" - Zaphod's First Corollary to his First Principle. :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

~"The likelihood of converting mass to energy [in a useful way and through a sustained nuclear reaction] is about the same as the likelihood of shooting a bird in the dark, in a country where there are very few birds"
- A Einstein.

[Astronuc]

"Back in caveman times, Early Man would venture out and brave dinosaurs, plagues, swarms of locuts, and man-eating flying squirrels in order to bring meat back for his woman and children. When Early Man arrived home from this grueling trek, during which he risked life and limb, he was greeted by the sight of his Early Woman (the last time the word 'early' has ever been applied to a woman), standing at the mouth of the cave, hands on hips, shaking her head and muttering, 'You forgot to pick up the firewood, didn't you?'". :rofl: Jim Belushi from his new book "Real Men Don't Apologize". :rolleyes:

I laughed when I read the comment about the man-eating flying squirrels.

[Reshma]

Wisdom ceases to be Wisdom, when it becomes too proud to weep; too grave to laugh and too self-ful to seek other than itself.
~Khalil Gibran

[Ivan Seeking]

"Who put the tribbles in the Qaudrotriticale?"
-James Kirk

[Semaphia]

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge" - Einstein, Probably appeared before :)
"Have you ever seen fattys legs? Its F**ing F***ed!" - Muse's Matt Bellamy

[heartless]

"Have you ever seen fattys legs? Its F**ing F***ed!" - Muse's Matt Bellamy

What is this about?

[ek]

"Everything is true just as it is. Why dislike it? Why hate it?"

It's some Zen proverb. And it's changed my life.

[rcgldr]

Al Bundy:

"Women and dog poop, the older they get, the eaiser they are to pick up."

"Why go out for milk when you've got a cow at home?"


Lisa Simpson, traveling through the giant redwood forest, trying to impress on the rest of the family just how big those trees are:

"It says here in the brochere that just one of these trees can make enough sawdust to clean up an entire day's worth of vomit at Disneyland."


From 2001:

"There's never been a problem with the HAL 9000 series before."

"That sounds like famous last words."

[Evo]

Netscape employees, for their part, warmed to such Barksdaleisms (Netscape CEO James Barksdale) as his three snakes rule, formulated at an early management retreat.

The first rule (borrowed from Ross Perot): If you see a snake, kill a snake. Don’t set up a snake committee. Don’t set up a snake user group. Don’t write snake memos. Kill it.

The second: Don’t play with dead snakes. (Don’t revisit decisions.)

The paradoxical third: All opportunities start out looking like snakes.

:bugeye:

[Markjdb]

This one I remember after Vladimir Putin was on Larry King live:

Larry King: Let's get to the part that may not have been enjoyable. What can -- what happened? You tell me. What happened with the submarine?
Vladimir Putin: It sunk.

He has a bunch of other good ones, but they're funnier in russian
It's better if you can imagine his face as he says it...

Copied from wikipedia

[Ivan Seeking]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry

[fourier jr]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry
well let's hope so... :smile:

[Reshma]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry
....if our human race survives that long :rofl: .

[Ivan Seeking]

That which can be conceived, and then believed, can be achieved.
-Amway salesman

[Lisa!]

"Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes! "

An example of thinking positively? I don't think so...:rolleyes:

[Astronuc]

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read.
– Gene Roddenberry Yeah, but he didn't take into account GW Bush, who seems bound and determined to prevent that from ever happening. :rolleyes:

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, but he didn't take into account GW Bush, who seems bound and determined to prevent that from ever happening. :rolleyes:

Well, at least we can count on our local Amway salesman. :rofl: :eek: :uhh:

[Astronuc]

On a lighter side - with regard to the plutonium rock band, Disaster Area -

"Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet." :rofl:

"Many worlds have banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties." :rofl: :rofl:

Douglas Adams - HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Ivan Seeking]

Sad News

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in....And then the trouble started.

[Astronuc]

Sad News

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in....And then the trouble started. Note to Tsu - "Don't leave Ivan home alone and unsupervised." :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

Hey, it was just a quote. :biggrin:

Heard another good one this morning: The white house is the crown jewel of the federal prison system - Harry Truman.

[Hootenanny]

I want to die at a hundred years old after screaming down an alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I don't do anything slow, not even breathe. I do everything at a fast cadence: eat fast, sleep fast.


What a way to live.

~H

[Astronuc]

During the commencement address yesterday, William Schulz implored the graduates to take the lessons they've learned from Vassar and question authority. He also urged them to take on the responsibility of building a more benevolent nation and welcoming world.

Schulz told the students "history is not finished, the future is not fated" and there remains more work to do in the world.

"We are engaged today in an enormous struggle for the soul of this country.

It is a struggle between those who would close down culture and those who would keep it open; between those who welcome the pre-eminence of one nation and those who give their fealty to the common interests of the globe." William F. Schulz, Vassar commencement, 2006.

William F. Schulz, the U.S. executive director of Amnesty International and former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, is one of the pre-eminent human rights activists in the US. :cool:

[fourier jr]

The bird could eat its way out of the cage. That was very real to me. As an apprentice, I too felt like a bird in a cage made out of bread. I just fed on my limits.
Lionel Poilane (http://buffaloreport.com/021104poilane.html), bread baker extraordinaire

http://buffaloreport.com/lionel%20poilane.jpg

[fourier jr]

That which can be conceived, and then believed, can be achieved.
-Amway salesman

that was actually Napoleon Hill, in his book "think and grow rich". he's the originator of a few other well-known quotes like that, such as "quitters never win and winners never quit"

[Cyrus]

"Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash!" - Striker

[Ivan Seeking]

that was actually Napoleon Hill, in his book "think and grow rich". he's the originator of a few other well-known quotes like that, such as "quitters never win and winners never quit"

Wow, I read that book but first heard it from an Amway guy. :rofl:

Revolting book btw...

[sebas531]

"It's ok, I'm an engineer."-neighbor

[rcgldr]

the future is not fated"The future is not set", Terminator 1 and 2 (movies).

[jimmie]

A true artist does not dwell upon art.

[Tsu]

"Julian Dicks is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

- some World Cup commentator? See the I loathe football thread

:rofl: :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

"Julian Dicks is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

- some World Cup commentator? See the I loathe football thread

:rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: That's a keeper!!!

[Astronuc]

"Power without Love is reckless and abusive, and Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is Love implementing the demands of Justice, and Justice at its best is Power correcting everything that stands against Love." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), speaking for the last time as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967.

from A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., James Melvin Washington, James Washington (Editor) , Harper Collins, 1990.

[Evo]

The best quote is taken from a letter Pauli wrote to colleague George Gamow. Werner Heisenberg was another colleague of Pauli’s who spent a lot of time searching for the unified field theory. This, by the way, is a theory which unites quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity, which can’t be done with our current knowledge. Anyway, Heisenberg announced to the press that he and Pauli had found the unified field theory, and only the technical details were missing. This infuriated Pauli, who wrote a letter to Gamow which ended with the following. “This is to show that I can paint like Titian.” (A big drawing of a rectangle) “Only the technical details are missing.”

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/3968/pauli2xs.png

[Garth]

"Power without Love is reckless and abusive, and Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is Love implementing the demands of Justice, and Justice at its best is Power correcting everything that stands against Love." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), speaking for the last time as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967.

from A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., James Melvin Washington, James Washington (Editor) , Harper Collins, 1990.
Thank you for that Astronuc - I will use it. :smile:

Garth

[fourier jr]

The best quote is taken from a letter Pauli wrote to colleague George Gamow. Werner Heisenberg was another colleague of Pauli’s who spent a lot of time searching for the unified field theory. This, by the way, is a theory which unites quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity, which can’t be done with our current knowledge. Anyway, Heisenberg announced to the press that he and Pauli had found the unified field theory, and only the technical details were missing. This infuriated Pauli, who wrote a letter to Gamow which ended with the following. “This is to show that I can paint like Titian.” (A big drawing of a rectangle) “Only the technical details are missing.”

kind of reminds me of this one:
"You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid."
Wolfgang Pauli commenting Einstein's lecture

[Astronuc]

"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade." - James W. Loewen - from his book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong"

I just found this in the house, and I have been reading Howard Zinn's "The People's History of the United States".

[Astronuc]

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. :biggrin:

- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Skyhunter]

The upper crust is just a bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

Written in black on a yellow VW bus I saw in the 80's.

[Astronuc]

Quote of the Day - posted on PHYS208 Fundamentals of Physics II
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/quotes/quote22.html
The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
Melvin Schwartz in Principles of Electrodynamics

Nice little discussion of the attributes of mass and electric charge.
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/clas0211.html

[Dimitri Terryn]

"The Patrician is the role of leader of the largest city on the Discworld, Ankh Morpork, and Lord Havelock Vetinari is the Patrician. In a democratic society of One man, One vote, he is that Man and he has the Vote. "

[EL]

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring"

-Feynman

[Gokul43201]

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

-- George Wallace

[Astronuc]

A disclaimer -

The following information may have errors; It is not permissible to be used by anyone who has ever met a lawyer. :rofl:

from an on-line source for units conversion.
http://xtronics.com/reference/convert.htm

[Ivan Seeking]

An old Inuit living near the north pole is interviewed in order to provide a qualitative description of the affects of arctic warming. After discussing the loss of ice, stranded polar bears, dead whales, and the end of a way of life, we get the following:

Inuit: ...but I like global warming.

Interviewer: Why?

Inuit: It's warmer!!!

[darius]

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. ) I am large, I contain multitudes."-Whitman

This is no book-who touches this, touches a man. Whitman

"Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a cosmos."

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible-T. E. Lawrence

Another thing we do is fools ourselves
Becomes the dupes of logic which derives
Giant conclusions out of pygmy clues-Lucretius

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a string of capital truths, and ourselves for an oracle, is inborn in us- Paul Valerey

[mathwonk]

today the angel of topology and the devil of abstract algebra fight for the soul of every individual subject in mathematics. herman weyl.

(what did you expect? physical humor?)

[mathwonk]

professorial humor:

student calling at midnight: "what was my exam grade?"

professor, groggily: "Your grade is F,......whats your name?"

[mathwonk]

"there are no bad whiskies, but some whiskies are better than others",
the honorable peshine smith, ambassador to japan, also attributed (much later) to william faulkner.

[mathwonk]

"If you wipe your rear end with your left hand, then you should eat with your right hand." hindu yogi.

[Astronuc]

I read this recently, but I don't know the author -

"God put me on this earth to accomplish many things.

I am so far behind, I will never die." :biggrin:


There are times when it seems like that - every day brings one more thing to do, which invariably gets appended to the "to do List", where it must wait in the queue pending all the other things to do - eventually.

[Ivan Seeking]

I may have posted these somewhere already, but oh well...

'Yeah, it is reminiscent of what distinguishes the good theorists from the bad ones. The good ones always make an even number of sign errors, and the bad ones always make an odd number.'"-Anthony Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell

The class of all questions contains an infinite number of members (since it is possible to go on indefinitely adding clauses to create questions of indefinite length and complexity). But there are only a finite number of answered questions, so the ratio is 0:1. .
---- Charles Francis

----Corollary: we know nothing.---- Charles Francis

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions. - unknown

The reasonable person adapts to the world around him or her, while the unreasonable person tries to change the world to suit them. Conclusion: Change only occurs because of unreasonable people.

[darius]

Here is one that was in Eisenhower's office in the days he was some kind of Dean at Columbia University. In pig latin roughly "Don't let the bastards wear you down."

[Cyrus]

I saw this on a friends profile.

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed." -Richard Rhal; Sword of Truth (TotW)- :cool:

[fourier jr]

To invent is to choose. This very remarkable conclusion appears the more striking if we compare it with what Paul Valery writes in the Nouvelle Revue Francaise: "It takes two to invent anything. The one makes up combinations; the other chooses, recognizes what he wishes and what is important to him in the mass of things which the former has imparted to him. What we call genius is much less the work of the first one than the readiness of the second one to grasp the value of what has been laid before him and to choose it."
Jacques Hadamard

All of life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realise my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilise my activities, my capacities. If my body was not a weight to me, I should not be able to walk. If the atmosphere did not press down on me, I should feel my body as something vague, flabby, insubstantial.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Because to live means to have something definite to do – a mission to fulfil – and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

When one speaks of “select minorities” it is usual for the evil-minded to twist the sense of this expression, pretending to be unaware that the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest, but the man who demands more of himself than the rest, even though he may not fulfill in his person those higher exigencies. For there is no doubt that the most radical that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands of themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be for every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

[FrogPad]

Like all of Erdos's friends, Graham was concerned about his drug-taking. In 1979, Graham bet Erdos $500 that he couldn't stop taking amphetamines for a month. Erdos accepted the challenge, and went cold turkey for thirty days. After Graham paid up--and wrote the $500 off as a business expense--Erdos said, "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month." He promptly resumed taking pills, and mathematics was the better for it.

"One thing kids like, is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' "He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. 'I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."
-Jack Handey

Believe you can, believe you can't; either way, you're right.
-Henry Fords

[Gokul43201]

I read this recently, but I don't know the author -

"God put me on this earth to accomplish many things.

I am so far behind, I will never die." :biggrin: That's vintage Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes). The author would be Watterson.


Darius, what book is Whitman refering to in that second quote?


Frogpad, nice Erdös anecdote - I didn't know it.

[fourier jr]

Frogpad, nice Erdös anecdote - I didn't know it.

there are plenty more in "the man who loved only numbers"

"One thing kids like, is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' "He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. 'I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."
-Jack Handey

lmao that's some good stuff. jack handey is hilarious

[fourier jr]

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible-T. E. Lawrence

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe
:wink:

[Dimitri Terryn]

Terry Pratchett, it the preface of "The Science of Discworld"

"Magicians and Scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in a world of their own and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothingi n common with a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in ...er...":biggrin:

[NoTime]

Terry Pratchett, it the preface of "The Science of Discworld"

"Magicians and Scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in a world of their own and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothingi n common with a group of people who often dress strangly, speak a specialized language, live in ...er...":biggrin:
:rofl: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A.C. Clark.

I suspect that for many (most?) people, we are currently far beyond the distinguishable point.

[darius]

That's vintage Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes). The author would be Watterson.


Darius, what book is Whitman refering to in that second quote?


Frogpad, nice Erdös anecdote - I didn't know it.
Hi Gokul,
Whitman was referring to his own book when it first came out "Leaves of Grass". Great to be able to say that about one's own book is it not?-Regards, Darius

[FrogPad]

there are plenty more in "the man who loved only numbers"


I've been meaning to pick up this book. Have you read it? Any good?

[fourier jr]

I've been meaning to pick up this book. Have you read it? Any good?

i have flipped through another erdos book called my brian is open, which seems to have roughly the same contents as the man who loves only numbers. they seem to be virtually the same book as far as the topics go. i guess i like the man who loved only numbers because i have that one. if i got my brain is open i'd probably like that one more.

[Mattara]

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?" ---Chris Rock

[Ivan Seeking]

A CNN viewer gives her [I think] opinion on how to achieve world peace:

~ "... Gather the world's leaders and lock them in a room with my mother-in-law. Within an hour they'll be willing to sign anything in order to get out."

[Mattara]

"If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilites we may find ourselvers at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categories or easily referenced"

- Fox Mulder (Fight the Future 1998)

[0TheSwerve0]

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men (actually a song lyric)
- Jeff Buckley

[Pythagorean]

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson

Fang Lizhi had some awesome quotes having been an oppressed scientist from China (they imprisoned him for his interests in the big bang theory!) but I've lost the book and can't do the service of them.

[Astronuc]

Daily Thought from RealSimple.com - some wisdom which can be applied to relationships.

July 21, 2006

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

— Henry Ford

[jimmie]

The whole world steps aside for he who knows where to go.

Anonymous

[pace]

- We're not alike other animals in that we can't choose, but in that we have difficulty of seeing beyond our own race.

me

[Astronuc]

“Aucun problem ne peut resister a la pensée -

No problem can withstand sustained thinking”

- Voltaire.

Seems appropriate for PF. :approve: :smile:

[Astronuc]

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colin.' Need I say more?”

Chris Rock - back a few years ago (probably around 2003), since Colin Powell left the government in Jan, 2005.

[Astronuc]

Back in August 1963, Pete Seeger did a concert at Carnegie Hall. He sang mostly folk songs which were part of the Civil Rights movement. He sang one song which has always stuck with me. It's a satirical commentary about what children were being taught in school at the time, as the Civil rights movement was advancing and the anti-war movements and women's rights movement had yet to get going. I bolded the part which used to make me chuckle.
What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie
I learned that soldiers seldom die
I learned that everybody's free
And that's what the teacher said to me.

That's what I learned in school today,
That's what I learned in school

... I learned our government must be strong
It's always right & never wrong
Our leaders are the finest men,
and we elect them again and again... :rofl:

... I learned that war is not so bad,
I learned about the great ones we have had,
We fought in Germany and in France,
And someday I might get my chance ... :rolleyes:

... I learned that boys grow into men,
Fly up to the moon and back again,
That little girls to mommies grow
To stay home and cook and sow ... :yuck:

... I learned that Columbus looked for land,
For Isabella and Ferdinand,
To India he was looking for a way
Til he bumped right into the USA ... :rolleyes:

... I learned & learned & learned some more
Til my eyes got read and my brain got sore,
I wander the halls in a state of shock
But it all gets better at 3 o'clock ... :tongue2:

- Tom Paxton (last v. John Braxton)
(c) 1962 Cherry Lane Music Publ. Co.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, July 2, 1964) was landmark legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Originally conceived to protect the rights of black men, the bill was amended prior to passage to protect the civil rights of everyone, and explicitly included women for the first time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (also known as CRA '68), which was meant as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibited discrimination in housing, there were no federal enforcement provisions. The 1968 expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status. It also provided protection for civil rights workers. Title VIII of the Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act (of 1968).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

For earlier and later acts see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act

[alias25]

'To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the plam of your hand
and eternity in an hour'
william blake

and...

'If life you regret the things you didn't do, so through off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails....Explore....Dream...Discover.'
Mark Twain

[Astronuc]

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. One experiences oneself, one's thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of one's consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein I changed some pronouns from third person masculine to third person neutral.

More quotes from A. Einstein - http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

[Lisa!]

"Common sense is not so common!"


What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?
What did you learn in school today
Dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie
I learned that soldiers seldom die
I learned that everybody's free
And that's what the teacher said to me.

That's what I learned in school today,
That's what I learned in school

... I learned our government must be strong
It's always right & never wrong
Our leaders are the finest men,
and we elect them again and again...

... I learned that war is not so bad,
I learned about the great ones we have had,
We fought in Germany and in France,
And someday I might get my chance ...

... I learned that boys grow into men,
Fly up to the moon and back again,
That little girls to mommies grow
To stay home and cook and sow ...

... I learned that Columbus looked for land,
For Isabella and Ferdinand,
To India he was looking for a way
Til he bumped right into the USA ...

... I learned & learned & learned some more
Til my eyes got read and my brain got sore,
I wander the halls in a state of shock
But it all gets better at 3 o'clock ... Great! :smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

Boy, when you die at the palace, you REALLY DIE at the palace!

Mel Brooks - History of the World: Part I

[lunarmansion]

A few by Ludwig Wittgenstein

A curious analogy could be based on the fact that even the largest telescope has to have an eye-piece no larger than the human eye.

To treat somebody well when he does not like you, you need to be not only very good natured, but very tactful too.

Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up What's that?"-It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said: "this is man", "this is house", etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch him up one day.

[Evo]

A friend sent me this one, I don't know the source.

Another month ends ...
All targets met,
All systems working,
All customers satisfied,
All staff eager and enthusiastic,
All Pigs fed and ready to fly.

[Astronuc]

"Failure - a step on the path to success" - source unknown :rolleyes:

[lunarmansion]

(contd).

Each morning you have to break the dead rubble afresh so as to reach the living warm seed.

[franznietzsche]

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974

[Gokul43201]

'To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the plam of your hand
and eternity in an hour'
william blakeThis used to be my signature here until it seemed like too many crackpots were trying to build theories upon it! :frown:

[Reshma]

A disagreement is the shortest distance between two minds.
~Khalil Gibran

[Astronuc]

Mencken's Creed

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant. http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken.html

September 12 is the birthday of the journalist and editor H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland (1880). He graduated as the valedictorian from his high school at the age of 15, but even though he was burning to write, he did exactly what his father expected. He took a job at the cigar factory. He started out rolling the cigars alongside the other blue-collar men, and he actually enjoyed that manual labor. But when he was promoted to the front office, he was hopelessly bored. He finally mustered up his courage and told his father that he wanted to pursue a career in journalism. His father told him to bring up the subject again in a year.

Mencken had been working at his father's factory for three years when, on New Years Eve in 1898, his father had a convulsion and collapsed. His mother told Mencken to get a doctor, 11 blocks down the street, and Mencken later said, "I remember well how, as I was trotting to [the doctor's] house on that first night, I kept saying to myself that if my father died I'd be free at last."

His father died two weeks later. The day after his father's funeral, Mencken shaved his face, combed his hair, put on his best suit, and went down to the Baltimore Morning Herald, asking for a job. Mencken came back every single day for the next four weeks. He finally wore the editor down, and he got to write two articles, each fewer than 50 words long.

He went on to become one of the most influential and prolific journalists in America, writing about all the shams and con artists in the world. He attacked chiropractors and the Ku Klux Klan, politicians and other journalists. Most of all, he attacked Puritan morality. He called Puritanism, "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

At the height of his career, he edited and wrote for the American Mercury magazine and the Baltimore Sun newspaper, wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column for the Chicago Tribune, and published two or three books every year. His masterpiece was one of the few books he wrote about something he loved, a book called The American Language (1919), a history and collection of American vernacular speech. It included a translation of the Declaration of Independence into American English that began, "When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they out to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody." Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio, September 12, 2006
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/09/11/index.html#tuesday

Declaration of Independence in Amerian (by H. L. Mencken)
http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken/declaration.html

[Astronuc]

"Evol si a nowsbomile gnicar rassoc het nardut dan hent dunsedly ti spilf oerv, gnipnin oyu nerundeath. Ta gnith, het cie sweasel emoc. Efil ni Ehll" :biggrin: :uhh:

[Astronuc]

A really useful interrogative phrase -

Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?

Who was that sheep I saw you with last night? :rofl:

[Castilla]

"If you are happy but you want to be as happy as other persons, you will lose the happiness you already had."

Something like that: Seneca, roman literate, dead in Nero's times.

[lunarmansion]

Old age fulfills the dreams of youth. One sees this in Swift: in his youth he built an insane asylum; in his old age he himself entered it-Kierkegaard

[lunarmansion]

Sometimes walking around NYC can turn up nice things. I like to go and study at the beautiful research library when the college library is closed. It is one of the most pleasant and cleanest places in the City. I just discovered that there is a street in front of the library with lines of some famous poets etched in the pavement. Here is a nice one I found the other day by Dylan Thomas on the way there. Only the second part is on the pavement though.

In my craft or sullen art

Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.

Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Not for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.

[Astronuc]

"Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill :rofl:

[Corkie2003]

Why stand up if you can sit down? Why sit down if . . . aaah f**k it, I can't be arsed.

[fourier jr]

Two conceptions of invention: Claparede, in his introductory lecture before the above-mentioned meeting at the Centre de Synthese, observes that there are two kinds of invention: one consists, a goal being given, in finding the means to reach it, so that the mind goes from the goal to the means, from the question to the solution; the other consists, on the contrary, in discovering a fact, then imagining what it could be useful for, so that, this time, mind goes from the means to the goal; the answer appears to us before the question.
Now, paradoxical as it seems, that second kind of invention is the more general one and becomes more & more so as science advances. Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.
Jacques Hadamard

Almost everyone knows that mathematics serves the very practical purpose of dictating engineering design. Fewer people seem to be aware that mathematics carries the main burden of scientific reasoning and is the core of the major theories of physical science. It is even less widely known that mathematics has determined the direction and content of much philosophic thought, has destroyed and rebuilt religious doctrines, has supplied substance to economic and political theories, has fashioned major painting, musical, architectural, and literary styles, has fathered our logic, and has furnished the best answers we have to fundamental questions we have about the nature of man and his universe. As the embodiment of the most powerful advocate of the rational spirit, mathematics has invaded domains ruled by authority, custom, and habit, and supplanted them as the arbiter of thought and action. Finally, as an incomparably fine human achievement mathematics offers satisfactions and aesthetic values at least equal to those offered by any other branch of our culture.
Morris Kline

[fourier jr]

lol i just read these. they're from 18th-century physicist & aphorist georg lichtenberg, who might be best known (in physics anyway) for discovering the principle behind photocopying:

"The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books."

"Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is."

"Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle."

"When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?"

[devious_]

Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance.

[fourier jr]

Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance.
how about these:
Intrepidity is unusual strength of soul which raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions that might be stirred up in it by the sight of great danger. This is the fortitude by which heroes keep their inner peace and preserve clear use of their reason in the most terrible and overwhelming crises.
La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impossible in themselves; it is not so much the means we lack as the perseverance we need to make them succeed.
La Rochefoucauld

No man can ever answer for his courage if he has never been in peril.
La Rochefoucauld

We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great.
Georg Lichtenberg (who was apparently a terrible procrastinator)

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg Lichtenberg

Nothing cheers me up so often as when I have succeeded in understanding something difficult, and yet I try so little to learn to understand difficult things. I should try more often.
Georg Lichtenberg

Knowledge & courage. These are the elements of greatness. Because they are immortal they bestow immortality. Each is as much as he knows, and the wise can do anything. A person without knowledge is in a world without light. Wisdom and strength are the eyes and the hands. Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult tasks as if they were easy. In the one case so that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other so that it may not be dismayed. For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think it done. On the other hand, patient industry overcomes impossibilities. Great undertakings are not to be brooded over, lest their difficulty when seen causes despair.
Baltasar Gracian

Many have proved themselves able when they had to deal with a difficulty, just as fear of drowning makes a person into a swimmer. In this way, many have discovered their own courage, knowledge, or tact, which but for the opportunity would have been forever buried beneath their lack of initiative. Dangerous situations are the occasions to create a name for oneself, and if a noble mind sees honour at stake, he will do the work of thousands. Queen Isabella the Catholic knew well this rule of life (as well as all the others) and to a shrewd favour of this kind the Great Captain (Cordoba) won his fame, and many others earned an undying name. By this great art she made great men.
Baltasar Gracian

Because a thing is difficult for you to do, do not think that it is impossible for any man; but whatever is possible for any man to do and right for his nature, think that you can acheive it too.
Marcus Aurelius

The persistent man never stops to consider whether he is succeeding or not. The only question with him is how to push ahead, to get a little farther along, a little nearer his goal. Whether it lead over mountains, rivers, or molrasses, he must reach it. Every other consideration is sacrificed to this one dominant purpose. The success of a dull or average youth and the failure of a brilliant one is a constant surprise in American history. But if the different cases are closely analyzed we shall find that the explanation lies in the staying power of the seemingly dull boy, the ability to stand firm as a rock under all circumstances, to allow nothing to divert him from his purpose.
Orison Marden

The power to hold on is charteristic of all men who have accomplished anything great; they may lack in some other particular, have many weaknesses or eccentricities, but the quality of persistence is never absent from a successful man. No matter what opposition he meets or what discouragement overtakes him, drudgery cannot disgust him, obstacles cannot discourage him, labour cannot weary him; misfortune, sorrow and reverses cannot harm him. It is not so much brilliancy of intellect, or fertility of resource, as persistency of effort, constancy of purpose, that makes a great man. Those who succeed in life are the men and women who keep everlastingly at it, who do not believe themselves geniuses, but who know that if they ever accomplish anything they must do it by determined and persistent industry.
Orison Marden

[lunarmansion]

Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance like a wheatfield on a summer's night-Nietzsche

Worte sind Taten.(Words are deeds)
The human being is the best picture of the human soul.
Wittgenstein

[Astronuc]

Something an engineer must always keep in mind.

No matter how elegant the design, or how sophisticated the model or method, your end result is always and approximation.

- James McInvale, Nuclear Engineer, Supervisor of Reactor Engineering/Core Design

[lunarmansion]

Plato on wisdom(seventh letter)

"One statement at any rate I can make in regard to all who have written or who may write with a claim to knowledge of the subjects to which I devote myself-no matter how they pretend to have acquired it, whether from my instruction or from others or by their own discovery. Such writers can in my opinion have no real acquaintance with the subject. I certainly have composed no work in regard to it, nor shall I ever do so in the future, for there is no way of putting it in words like other studies. Acquaintance with it must come rather after a long period of attendance on instruction in the subject itself and of close companionship, when, suddenly, like a blaze kindled by a leaping spark, it is generated in the soul and at once becomes self sustaining."

I will never forget him, not as long as I'm still among the living and my springing knees will lift and drive me on. Though the dead forget their dead in the House of Death, I will remember, even there, my dear companion....(Iliad(Achilles upon the death of Patroclus)

Man is altogether desire (kama), as is his desire so is his insight (kratu); as is his insight so is his deed (karma), as is his deed so is his destiny.
(The Brahmanas)

Two things fill the heart with ever renewed and increasing awe and reverence, the more often and steadily we meditate upon them: the starry firmament above and the moral law within.( Immanuel Kant)

Two interesting points of views:

Of making books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of flesh-Ecclesiastes

Even though he speaks falsely, yet speaks he truth who thus knows why truth is satya (truth) (Aitareya Aranyaka)

[fourier jr]

When these thoughts had led me from the particular study of arithmetic and geometry to a general study of mathematics, I inquired first of all precisely what everyone means by this word, and why not only those two sciences of which we have already spoken, but also music, optics, mechanics, and several others are called parts of mathematics. For it is not enough in this case to consider the etymology of the word; since, as the term mathesis signifies simply science, the other sciences would have no less right than geometry itself to be called mathematics. Moreover, we see no one who, if he has so much as set foot in a school, fails to distinguish easily among those subject matters that are presented to him what belongs to mathematics and what belongs to other disciplines. And if one reflects on this matter more attentively, one finally observes that all and only those subjects in which order and measurement are investigated are referred to mathematics, no matter whether such measure is sought in numbers, in figures, in stars, in sounds, or in some other subject. One concludes, therefore, that there must be some general science explaining all that can be investigated concerning order and measure, without application to a particular material; and that this science is called not by a strange name, but by a name already ancient and received by usage, universal mathematics, because it includes all that material by virtue of which other sciences are called parts of mathematics. How much it excels in usefulness and facility the sciences that depend on it is clear from that fact that it extends to all the objects which they treat and to many others; and that all the difficulties it involves are found also which arise from their particular objects, and which it for its part does not possess. But now, since everyone knows its name, and knows what it deals with, even without applying it, how does it happen that most people try to learn the other sciences that depend on it, while no one takes the trouble to study it in itself? I should certainly be amazed at this if I did not know that it is considered by everyone to be very simple, and if I had not observed long ago that the human mind, leaving aside what it thinks easy of attainment, hurries on to new and loftier things.
Rene Descartes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

[twisting_edge]

We think we understand the regular reflection of light and x-rays - and we should understand the reflection of electrons as well if electrons were only waves instead of particles...It is rather as if one were to see a rabbit climbing a tree, and were to say, "Well, that is rather a strange thing for a rabbit to be doing, but after all there is really nothing to get excited about. Cats climb trees - so that if the rabbit were only a cat, we would understand its behavior perfectly."

- Clinton J. Davisson, Franklin Institute Journal (1928)

People all the time forget just how weird that is.

[Astronuc]

Clinton J. Davisson received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 with George Paget Thomson for the discovery of electron diffraction.

It is enjoyable to read the thoughts of the pioneers in physics.

[whitay]

"I just enjoy ****ing with people's heads. For the first half of our gigs, there's normally some guy convinced I'm a girl, and a pretty cute one at that. As the gig continues, it begins to dawn on him that I'm a bloke, and suddenly he has to ask himself some serious questions. Ha ha!" by Brian Molko

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. by Oscar Wilde

I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay. by Bono

[lunarmansion]

Para pensar cual tu, solo es precise
no tener nada mas que inteligencia.
To think like you, all I need merely is to possess intelligence- Unamuno

[lunarmansion]

How unreasonable people are! They never use the freedoms they have but demand those they do not have; they have freedom of thought- they demand freedom of speech.

My observation of life makes no sense at all. I suppose that an evil spirit has put a pair of glasses on my nose, one lens of which magnifies on an immense scale and the other reduces on the same scale.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. They are like that dwarf who guarded a kidnapped princess in his castle. One day he took a noon nap. When he woke up an hour later, she was gone. Hastily he pulls on his seven-league boots; with one step he is far past her.

In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them once again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

I prefer to talk with children, for one may still dare to hope that they may become rational beings;but those who have become that-good Lord!

( Soren Kierkegaard (Either/Or))

[EL]

My signature

[fourier jr]

lol @ kierkegaard :tongue: those are some good ones

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
Bertrand Russell

Man is a rational animal - so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
Bertrand Russell

We always picture Plato and Aristotle wearing long academic gowns, but they were ordinary decent people like anyone else, who enjoyed a laugh with their friends. And when they amused themselves by composing their Laws and Politics they did it for fun. It was the least philosophical and least serious part of their lives: the most philosophical part was living simply and without fuss. If they wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they treated it as really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
Blaise Pascal

Mathematics is the key to our understanding of the physical world; it has given man the conviction that he can continue to fathom the secrets of nature; and it has given him power over nature. We now understand, for example, the motions of the planets and of electrons in atoms, the structure of matter, and the behaviour of electricity, light, radio waves, and sound. And we can use this knowledge on man's behalf. Some uses of this knowledge is familiar to all of us: the telephone, the phonograph, radio, and television are achievements of mathematics. Mathematics, especially through statistics and probability, is becoming increasingly valuable in the social sciences and biological and medical research. The search for truth in philosophy or the social sciences cannot be discussed without involving the role that mathematics has played in that quest. Painting and music have been influenced by mathematics. Much of our literature is permeated with themes treating the implications of mathematical achievements in science and technology. Indeed, it is impossible to understand some writers and poets unless one is familiar with mathematical influences to which they are reacting. Religious doctrines and beliefs have been dramatically altered in the light of what mathematics has revealed about our universe. In fact, the entire intellectual atmosphere, the Zeitgeist, has been determined by mathematical achievements.
Morris Kline

But Herr P can certainly drink, someone said to me recently: first two bottles of wine, then 12 glasses of punch. What is his objective? If I understand him aright, it seems to me I could do all Herr P is doing, and do it much quicker, if I shot a pistol at my head.
Georg Lichtenberg

[Astronuc]

I saw on a T-shirt.

"Three Wise Men?

Yeah, right!

Be serious" :rofl:

[lunarmansion]

The whole world steps aside for he who knows where to go.

Anonymous
This is similar:

Whatever the greatest man does,
Thus do the rest,
Whatever standard he sets,
The world follows that.
-Gita

A few more from that beautiful song:

Better one's own duty though deficient,
Than the duty of another well performed.
**********
The self alone can be a friend of oneself,
And the self alone can be an enemy of oneself.

******
The man who abandons all desires
Acts free from longing.
Indifferent to possessions, free from egotism,
He attains peace.

******

Content with whatever comes to him,
Transcending the qualities (i.e., pleasure pain etc.),
free from envy,
Constant in mind whether in success or failure
Even though he acts, he is not bound.

*******
This one I liked but have never seen a life example:

The wise see the same,
In a Brahmin endowed with wisdom and cultivation,
In a cow, in an elephant,
And even in a dog or in an outcaste.

****

[lunarmansion]

There is a building in New York City dedicated to Dag Hammerskjold. I did some research into the man, and have found he was quite remarkable in his way. The United Nations has not seen a Secretary General like that for a long time. Some of his thoughts are recorded in his book Markings.
A few quotes by him:


Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The aura of victory that surrounds a man of good-will, the sweetness of soul which emanates from him-a flavor of cranberries and cloudberries, a touch of frost and fiery skies.

The alienation of great pride from everything which constitutes human order.
A fable: once upon a time, there was a crown so heavy that it could only be worn by one who remained completely oblivious to his glitter.

On the field where Ormuzd has challenged Ahriman to battle, he who chases away the dogs is wasting his time.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my burden to bear.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible, not to run away.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

The scientist only records what he has been able to establish as indisputable fact. In the same way, only what is unique in a person's experience is worth writing down as a guide and warning to others. In the same way, too, an explorer leaves it to others to pass their time taking notes on the quaint customs of the natives, or making devastating remarks about the foibles of their travelling companions.
True-and which do you do?

[lunarmansion]

There are a lot of Math quotes on the internet. Here is a few I found.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what the thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Tolstoy

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly that I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.-Goethe

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit-Whitehead

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics-Oppenheimer

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy-John Adams

May your life be like Mathematics
joys added
Sorrows subtracted
Friends multiplied
Love undivided-Unknown

How happy are the lot of the mathematicians. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.-W. H. Auden

[lunarmansion]

I came across some passages from Thoreau I copied as a teenager. I still like them:

"...A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly lived to moments to divine leisure, in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? We live too fast and too coarsely, just as we eat too fast, and do not know the true savor of our food. We consult our will and understanding and the expectations of men, not our genius. I can impose upon myself tasks which will crush me for life and prevent all expansion, and this I am but too inclined to do. Our moment of life costs many hours, not of business, but of preparation and invitation....That aim in life is the highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. How much, what infinite leisure it requires, as of a life-time, to appreciate a single phenomenon. You must camp down beside it as for life, having reached your land of promise, and give yourself wholly to it...."
Thoreau

[Astronuc]

******
The man who abandons all desires,
Acts free from longing.
Indifferent to possessions, free from egotism,
He attains peace.
****** Something to which I aspire.

[Astronuc]

A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind -

Albert von Szent-Györgyi (Nobel laureate)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gyorgyi-bio.html

[fourier jr]

A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind -

Albert von Szent-Györgyi (Nobel laureate)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gyorgyi-bio.html

Let us take Sir Isaac Newton. All discoveries are due to chance, whether towards the end or the beginning of the process, for otherwise reasonable people could sit down and make discoveries as one sits down and writes a letter. The imagination spots a similarity and reason tests it and finds it true: that is discovery. That is how Sir Isaac Newton was. I have not the slightest reason to doubt that there existed before him and after him, in England and without, and that there exist now minds superior to his in ability, just as I have no reason to doubt that the peasant who gazes in admiration at the preacher would preach better if he had studied and acquired the knack. Opportunity and occasion are the discoverer and ambition the improver, confidence in one's own strength is strength, in marriage and the world of learning.
Georg Lichtenberg

[verty]

"There is no light without shadow, and it is essential to know the night." - Albert Camus

"For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested." - Epictetus

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." - Ayn Rand

"Be pleasant." - Me

[lunarmansion]

Immanuel Kant, the great philosopher, also made some contributions to science and mathematics, among which is the nebular hypothesis regarding the formation of our solar system. This hypothesis, as everyone knows, has attained the status of a scientific theory. Kant tired to epitomize the results of the science of his day, an undertaking hardly possible today with the vast specialization in the sciences. Rereading some bits of him, I found an interesting comment on the sciences and philosophy:

"Science has a real and true value only as an instrument of practical wisdom. As such an instrument, it is indeed indispensable..."
The task of philosophy, according to him, is to furnish a second eye to the scientifically instructed youth,
"...Which shall cause him also see the object from the standpoint of other men. On this depends the humanity of science..."
Perhaps interesting in light of the fact that progress in the sciences, which is neutral, does not often go in hand with the way it is implemented.

[lunarmansion]

Let us take Sir Isaac Newton. All discoveries are due to chance, whether towards the end or the beginning of the process, for otherwise reasonable people could sit down and make discoveries as one sits down and writes a letter. The imagination spots a similarity and reason tests it and finds it true: that is discovery. That is how Sir Isaac Newton was. I have not the slightest reason to doubt that there existed before him and after him, in England and without, and that there exist now minds superior to his in ability, just as I have no reason to doubt that the peasant who gazes in admiration at the preacher would preach better if he had studied and acquired the knack. Opportunity and occasion are the discoverer and ambition the improver, confidence in one's own strength is strength, in marriage and the world of learning.
Georg Lichtenberg

The best thoughts on genius are those of geniuses themselves. Here is a few I found:

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Genius is what makes us forget skill.

Where genius wears thin skill may show through.
***
One might say "Genius is talent exercised with courage."

Not funk but funk conquered is what is worthy of admiration and makes life worth having been lived. Courage not cleverness; not even inspiration- this is the grain of mustard that grows into a great tree. To the extent there is courage there is a link with life and death. But you don't win courage by recognizing the want of it in someone else.
***
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Ivan Seeking]

Eternity is a very long time; especially near the end - Bernard Haisch

[Lisa!]

"A successfull man is one who builds solid foundations with the rocks that others throw at him"

[ranger]

"Whoever says money can't buy you happiness, has never been poor" ~ me

"Fear crushes greed" ~ me

"you guys are so young and naive. you think qualifications are on paper." ~ mathwonk

[Vagrant]

Because of its heavy body and tiny wings a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly.But a bumblebee doesn't know this so it flies anyway.

[Astronuc]

Aristotle, Metaphysics II (trans. W. D. Ross) -

"The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little of nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed."

I wish I had been exposed to classic Greek way back in my early years.

[Ivan Seeking]

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield man pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges that he deliberately ran over a wild turkey in September on his way to anger management class...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1739843/posts

[Ivan Seeking]

In Washington [D.C.], people lie while on the record, and tell the truth while off the record. In the Middle East, people tell the truth while on the record, and lie while off the record. - Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times

[Astronuc]

Husband (to wife) - Please don't yell so loudly.

Wife (to husband) - If it wasn't loud, I wouldn't be yelling.

[ranger]

Comedian Bill Burr on marriage:

Is this the line to loose half my sh*t? Awesome!

[Ivan Seeking]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After 10 years of research on a project that was supposed to take only five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/11/procrastination.nation.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[Ivan Seeking]

In an effort to save the American farmer, Bio-Willie - aka country singing legend Willie Nelson - is one of the leaders in promoting and producing biodiesel made from domestically grown seed stocks. He also drives a Mercedes that runs on locally produced biodiesel. Proudly displayed in the window is a sticker that reads: No war required.

[Reshma]

When you hate someone, you hate something in him that is already a part of you. What isn't a part of you should not affect you.

Herman Hesse

[siddharth]

"I am your king!"
"Well, I didn't vote for you"

"Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

Yes, I watched it once again today :biggrin:

[fourier jr]

Dedekind expressed the opinion about the concept of a set. He imagined a set as a closed sack containing definite objects which are not seen, and of which nothing is known except that they are existing and are definite. Some time later Cantor made known his idea of a set. He raised his colossal figure, with lifted arm he made an imposing gesture, and with a glance in an indefinite direction he said, "I imagine a set to be like an abyss."
Emmy Noether

[lunarmansion]

Dedekind expressed the opinion about the concept of a set. He imagined a set as a closed sack containing definite objects which are not seen, and of which nothing is known except that they are existing and are definite. Some time later Cantor made known his idea of a set. He raised his colossal figure, with lifted arm he made an imposing gesture, and with a glance in an indefinite direction he said, "I imagine a set to be like an abyss."
Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether- interesting life of a female mathematician:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

[Ivan Seeking]

Why do real estate agents get head shots?
- comedian on Letterman whose name I didn't get.

Of course that opens the whole can of worms; for example:
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?

[fourier jr]

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.
Francois Rabelais' will :tongue2:

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
David Hilbert

Those who say they never have time do the least.
Georg Lichtenberg

Logic, it appears to me, teaches us to test the conclusiveness of an argument already discovered, but I do not believe that it teaches us to discover correct arguments and demonstrations.
Galileo

The great also make mistakes, and some of them make so many you are almost tempted to think they weren't great at all.
Georg Lichtenberg

[mace2]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Clarke

"Yippie ka yay m*****-******!" -McClane

[Astronuc]

"If you fall, you're fired before you hit the ground" :rofl:

words of encouragement from a construction formean as we prepared to walk high iron. I guess you have to walk the iron to appreciate the humor. :biggrin:

[GregA]

You're just jealous because all the voices are talking to me

I remember Seeing this on a t-shirt and thought it was brilliant

[ranger]

"You believe I'm the devil, maybe its because I've lived in hell and I am trying to get out"

~Blood Diamond Movie (if I recall correctly)

[radou]

" I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems. "

~Pulp Fiction

[J77]

Education, education, education.

Tony Blair 1996.

Cracks me up every time :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[fourier jr]

You're just jealous because all the voices are talking to me

I remember Seeing this on a t-shirt and thought it was brilliant


a guy i work with has a shirt that says '"i'm not a doctor but i'll take a look anyway" :rofl:
it would be a good one to wear to a bar :tongue:

[ranger]

"If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird."

~author unknown

The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The willingness to learn is a choice.

~Dune: House Harknonnen, p. 437

[BobG]

Warrenton, West Virginia newspaper:

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
If you are one of the hundreds of parachuting enthusiasts who bought our "Easy Sky Diving" book, please make the following correction: on page 8, line7, the words "state zip code" should have read "pull rip cord".

[ranger]

"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three."
~Elayne Boosler

[Ivan Seeking]

"President Bush claims that he has prayed every day since taking office.

HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!" - Jay Leno

[3trQN]

"The educated person must be taught that it is not a disgrace to fail,
and that he must analyse for every failure to find its cause.
He must learn to fail intelligently,
for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." C.F.Kettering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kettering)

Oh and Spike Milligan's Epitaph:

"I told you I was ill"

[Schrodinger's Dog]

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Bernard_Shaw/

Every single one of them are a gem.

But here's my favourites.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. (he was agnostic)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children



George Bernard Shaw.

And more of an anecdote from Bertrand Russel I rather liked.

Bertrand Russell was a well known British philosopher of the 20th century. He was arrested during World War I for anti-war activities, and filled out a form at the jail. The officer, noting that Russell had defined his religious affiliation as "Agnostic" commented: "Ah yes; we all worship Him in our own way, don't we." This comment allegedly "kept him smiling through his first few days of incarceration."

[Evo]

Help me find this quote!

It's something similar to

"one would be surprised at how little is actually said about them in their absence"

"one would be disappointed to find out how little is said about them behind their backs"

What is this quote? I thought I had either posted it in this thread or someone else did. I can't find it now.

[Astronuc]

Help me find this quote!

It's something similar to

"one would be surprised at how little is actually said about them in their absence"

"one would be disappointed to find out how little is said about them behind their backs"

What is this quote? I thought I had either posted it in this thread or someone else did. I can't find it now. That would seem to belong in a thread on 'ego'. :rofl:

I heard an interview with Norman Mailer the other day where he said something to the effect that he loves to give grief to those who are 'overly happy with themselves.' :rofl:

[ranger]

Schrodinger's Dog, thats a strong collection of quotes dude!

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Schrodinger's Dog, thats a strong collection of quotes dude!

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

http://www.physicsforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9074&stc=1&d=1170624845

I forgot one, I'm a big admirer of his work: a philosopher,author and fighter for human rights by profession, obscenely rich off his literary works, Nobel prize winner and general all round philanthropist, raised under order of his parents to be an agnostic and uncompromisingly vegetarian:smile:. In a world full of hypocrites, I think GBS was one of the truly great minds of the 20th century.

Author of works such as Pygmalian(on the stage as:My Fair Lady)St Joan, Man And Superman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

Shaw's career started with frustration and near poverty. Neither music criticism (written under the name of a family friend) nor a telephone company job lasted very long, and only two of the five novels Shaw wrote between 1879 and 1883 found publishers: Cashel Byron’s Profession (1882), a novel about prizefighting as an occupation that anticipates the theme of prostitution as an antisocial profession in the play Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), and An Unsocial Socialist (1883). By the mid-1880s Shaw discovered the writings of Karl Marx and turned to socialist polemics and critical journalism. He also became a firm (and lifelong) believer in vegetarianism, a spellbinding orator, and tentatively, a playwright. He was the force behind the newly founded (1884) Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group that aimed at the transformation of English government and society. In 1887, Shaw spoke and marched in the Bloody Sunday demonstrations that ended up as a riot in Trafalgar Square. Through the Fabian Society’s founders, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Shaw met the Irish heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend, whom he married in 1898, soon after his earnings as a writer made him financially self-sufficient.

Shaw’s early journalism ranged from book reviews and art criticism to music columns (many of them championing the controversial work of the German composer Richard Wagner) from 1888 to 1890 under the signature “Corno di Bassetto” (basset horn), later under his own initials. Shifting to the Saturday Review as drama critic, a post he held from 1895 to 1898, Shaw became the champion of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, about whom he had already written his influential The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891).

Playwriting

Shaw was a novelist, critic, pamphleteer, essayist, inveterate letter writer, politician and public speaker, but he is by far best known today as a playwright. He did not finish his first play, however, until in his mid-30s. Shaw was born at 33 Synge Street in Dublin, Ireland to rather poor Church of Ireland parents, George Carr Shaw (1814-1885) and Lucinda Elizabeth (Gurly) (1830-1913). Shaw had two sisters, Lucinda Frances (1853-1920), a singer of musical comedy and light opera, and Elinor Agnes (1854-1876); both died of tuberculosis.

Shaw was educated at Wesley College, Dublin and moved to London during the 1870s to embark on his literary career. He wrote five novels, none of which was published, before finding his first success in the late 1880s as a music critic on the Star newspaper, under the pseudonym "Corno di Bassetto". From 1895 to 1898, Shaw was the drama critic on Frank Harris's Saturday Review.

During this time, Shaw became a socialist and joined the Fabian Society. He was heavily involved in politics and even held office as a borough councilor in the St. Pancras district of London from 1897 to 1903. While Shaw's political beliefs inform his plays, they do not generally overwhelm them.

Shaw started working on his first play, Widower's Houses, in 1885, in collaboration with critic William Archer. Archer, who came up with the structure, felt Shaw was no playwright (an opinion he apparently never changed), and the project was abandoned. Years later, Shaw gave it another shot and, in 1892, completed his first play—alone.

Widower's Houses debuted at London's Royalty Theatre on December 9, 1892. Shaw would later call it one of his worst works, but he had found his medium. He would go on to write over 50 plays, most of them full-length.

Many of his earliest pieces had to wait years to receive major productions in London, but they are still being performed today. Among them are Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894) and You Never Can Tell (1895).

His first financial success as a playwright came from Richard Mansfield's American production of The Devil's Disciple (1897). Shaw, in fact, would often see his plays succeed in America (and Germany) before they did in London.

The ideas in his earliest theatrical work were unconventional, and his wit unmatched by contemporaries (save Oscar Wilde), but his plays were still designed for the theatre of his time. Once he became more experienced, and more popular, his plays tended to be less compact and talkier, though no less successful. These works from what might be called the beginning of his "middle" period include Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905) and The Doctor's Dilemma (1906).

From 1904 to 1907, several of his plays had their London premieres in notable productions at the Court Theatre, managed by Harley Granville-Barker and J.E. Vedrenne.

His first original play performed at the Court, John Bull's Other Island (1904), though not one of his more popular plays today, made his reputation in London when, during a command performance for King Edward VII, the King laughed so hard he broke his chair.

By the 1910s, Shaw was a well-established playwright. New works such as Fanny's First Play (1911) and Pygmalion (1912)—on which My Fair Lady was based—had long runs in front of large London audiences. (Even though Oscar Straus's The Chocolate Soldier (1908)--an adaptation of Arms And The Man--was very popular, Shaw detested it and for the rest of his life forbade any musicalization of his work, including a potential Franz Lehar operetta based on Pygmalion. Only after Shaw's death did My Fair Lady become possible.)

Many feel Shaw's outlook was changed by World War I, a war he—quite unpopularly—opposed. His first full-length piece presented after the War, written mostly during it, was Heartbreak House (1919). This seemed to be a new Shaw; the wit was still there, but the action and theme were darker, almost despairing at times.

In 1921, Shaw completed Back to Methuselah, his "Metabiological Pentateuch." The massive, five-play work starts in the Garden of Eden and ends thousands of years in the future. Shaw claimed it was a masterpiece, but many critics did not share that opinion.

His next original play, however, is generally conceded to be one of his best, Saint Joan (1923). Shaw had long thought of writing about Joan of Arc, and her recent canonization spurred him on. It was an international success, and is believed to have led to his Nobel Prize in Literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:George_Bernard_Shaw_1934-12-06.jpg

He continued writing plays for the rest of his life, but very few of them are as notable—or as often revived—as his earlier work. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Later full-length plays like Too True to Be Good (1931)[1], On the Rocks (1933)[2], The Millionairess (1935), and Geneva (1938) have been seen as marking a decline. His last significant play, In Good King Charles Golden Days[3] has, according to St. John Ervine, passages that are equal to Shaw's major works. His last full-length work was Buoyant Billions (1946–48)[4], written when he was in his nineties.

Many of Shaw's published plays come with lengthy prefaces. These tend to be essays more about Shaw's opinions on the issues dealt with in the plays than about the plays themselves. Some prefaces are much longer than the actual play. For example, the Penguin Books edition of his one-act The Shewing-up Of Blanco Posnet (1909)[5] has a 67-page preface for the 29-page piece.

One of the world's most notable theatrical voices was silenced when Shaw died in 1950 at the age of 94 due to a fall from a ladder.[2]

[fourier jr]

"The educated person must be taught that it is not a disgrace to fail,
and that he must analyse for every failure to find its cause.
He must learn to fail intelligently,
for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." C.F.Kettering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kettering)

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

The great also make mistakes, and some of them make so many you are almost tempted to think they weren't great at all.
Georg Lichtenberg

some other person (bertrand russell maybe) said something like "people who lack any vices are very likely lacking in virtues also", that's another good one.

[ranger]

I'm not aware of any such Bertrand Russell quote. If you ever do find the exact quote, let me know and I'll add it to my list of favorite Russell quotes.

[fourier jr]

I'm not aware of any such Bertrand Russell quote. If you ever do find the exact quote, let me know and I'll add it to my list of favorite Russell quotes.

no, it's not russell; I thought it may have been either La Rochefoucauld or Georg Lichtenberg but it's not them either, it's abe lincoln:
"It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues."
wikiquote says lincoln heard someone else say it when he was on a train.

along the same lines la rochefoucauld DID write this one:
"Only the great are entitled to great faults."

[Ivan Seeking]

~"It's not possible to take a bad picture of a pig" - National Geographic Photographer.

[Ivan Seeking]

...It hit a line of small craters in the sand and began to turn to starboard, careering towards Klemantaski, who, viewing events through a telescopic lens, misjudged the distance and continued filming. Hearing the approaching roar he looked up from his viewfinder to see Panjandrum, shedding live rockets in all directions, heading straight for him. As he ran for his life, he glimpsed the assembled admirals and generals diving for cover behind the pebble ridge into barbed-wire entanglements...
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=114542

[Ivan Seeking]

I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.
- Barack Obama, October, 2002
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/page/2/

[radou]

- A woodchuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood.
- Oh, shut up!

[Ivan Seeking]

You're not really famous until you're a PEZ dispenser...

We had signed our lives away. I had to pay George [Lucas] two dollars every time I looked at myself in the mirror.

- Carrie Fisher [Princess Leia from Star Wars]

[Curious3141]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but it's my favorite.

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I'm not aware of any such Bertrand Russell quote. If you ever do find the exact quote, let me know and I'll add it to my list of favorite Russell quotes.

Not one of his quotes more of an anecdote.

[Ivan Seeking]

In order to appreciate this story, note the accent marks.

I was watching some super-wacko UFO contactee stuff from the fifties and sixties [unfortunately, it goes with the turf]. There was some guy wearing a full native American headdress, and talking about his meeting with people on a flying saucer from “O’rean”. “And I don’t mean Ori’on”, he specified. “I mean O’rean. It is a planet outside of our galax’y”.

[Astronuc]

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.
From the Secret World of the Irish Male by Joseph O'Connor

True friends stab you in the front. :rolleyes:
Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw - He foresaw GWBush.

http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/Quotes/WitHumor.html

[Ivan Seeking]

"I'm not going to kiss or date anyone until I'm married" - teenage daughter of a fundamentalist.

[Geographer]

The quotes of Lao Ma:

-Fill yourself with desire and see only illusion. Empty yourself of desire and understand the great mystery of things.

-To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way.

-The entire world is driven by a will, blind and ruthless. In order to transcend the limitations of that world, you need to stop willing, stop desiring, stop hating.

-Heaven endures and the Earth lasts a long time because they do not live for themselves. Therefore she who would live a long time should live for others, serve others.

[Tom Mattson]

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

--Frank Sinatra

[twisting_edge]

"Does it bother you when I torture you?"

-- Evo (20:15 EDT, 23 March 07)

[radou]

Apropos member quotes, here's one I find brilliant:

"boy are you naive. we are building a totally artificial persona here that we live with in in our fantasies. E.g. I have pretended for years here to understand tensors, whereas actually they scare me to death."

mathwonk

[Tom Mattson]

"boy are you naive. we are building a totally artificial persona here that we live with in in our fantasies. E.g. I have pretended for years here to understand tensors, whereas actually they scare me to death."

mathwonk

:rofl: Great quote from a great member.

It reminds me of another great quote by Integral. It was in some GR thread a while ago, and it was full of tensor notation. Integral said something to the effect that he would love to get involved, but "I get tenser around tensors."
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lunarmansion]

To be lacking in everything but intelligence is the necessary qualification of thinking like you--Unamuno
Para pensar cual tu, solo es preciso no tener nada mas que inteligensia.

It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight--Thoreau

[fourier jr]

I say then that the hardships of the student are these: first of all, poverty -- not because they are all poor, but to put the case as strongly as possible -- and when I say that they suffer poverty I do not think that there is anything more to say about their misery; for the poor man lacks everything that is good. This poverty they suffer in various forms: sometimes hunger, sometimes cold, sometimes nakedness, sometimes all of them together. But, all the same, things are not so bad that they do not eat, although it may be a little later than thye are used to, or from the leavings of the rich man's table; for what students call "going on the soup", or begging for their supper is their worst misery. And moreover they do share someone's brazier or hearth, which may not warm them but at least takes the edge off the cold; and, last of all, they sleep under cover at night. I do not want to go into other details -- lack of shirts, for instance, and shortage of shoes, or scanty and threadbare clothing -- or to describe their way of stuffing themselves over-eagerly when Fortune sends them a feast. But by the rough and difficult path which I have indicated, stumbling at times and falling, getting up and falling once more, they do acquire the degree they desire. And when they have got it, I have seen many of them, once passed through those shoals, those Scyllas & Charybdises, as if borne on the wings of Fortune's favour; -- I say that we have seen them command and govern the world from an armchair, their hunger exchanged for a full stomach, their cold for a pleasant coolness, their nakedness for fine clothes, and their sleep on a mat for a comfortable rest on fine linen and damask: the justly merited rewards of their virtue.
Don Quixote on students

After studying Newton's work on gravitation we considered the question: What is gravity and how does it act? We found that in that case, too, that we had no understanding of the action of gravitation. We have a mathematical law describing the quantitative value of this force and, by using this law and laws of motion, we can predict effects that can be experimentally checked. The central concept of gravitation, however, remains unknown. We see, then that at the heart of our best scientific theories is mathematics or, more accurately, some formulas and their consequences. The firm, bold design of a scientific theory is mathematical. Our mental constructions have outrun our intuitive and sense perceptions. In both theories, gravitation and electromagnetism, we must confess our ignorance of the basic mechanisms and leave the task of representing what we know to mathematics. We may lose pride in making this confession, but we may gain understanding of the true state of affairs. We can appreciate now what Alfred North Whitehead meant when he said, "The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions [of mathematics] are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete facts."
Morris Kline

It was Newton's work that presented humanity with a new world order, a universe controlled by a few mathematical laws, which in turn were deduced from a common set of mathematically expressible physical principles. Here was a majestic scheme that embraced the fall of a stone, the tides of the oceans, the motions of the planets & their moons, the defiant sweep of comets, and the brilliant, stately motion of the canopy of stars. The Newtonian scheme was decisive in convincing the world that nature is mathematically designed and that the true laws of nature are mathematical.... Man today uses the Newtonian theory to send people to the moon, to send spaceships to photograph planets such as Mars and Saturn, and to launch satellites the circle the Earth (an idea that had occurred to Newton). All of the planning based on the mathematical theory works perfectly. Any misadventures would result from the failure of human mechanisms.
Morris Kline

What I say will or will not come to pass.
Kepler's disclaimer to his clients

i recently read 'they thought they were free' by milton mayer, who in the late 1940s (i think) interviewed 10 "ordinary" germans (a tailer, a baker, a policeman, etc etc) who were members of the nazi party during the 1930s & 1940s, & asked what germany was like at the time & why they joined the party, etc. chapter 13 was by far the most interesting imo, because it shows how similar the attitudes of the germans towards their government was to other countries (like the united states & especially the red states if you ask me). here's what a philologist had to say in chap 13:
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it....
...To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it -- please try to believe me -- unless one had a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' that no 'patriotic German' could resent must someday lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head....
..."Once the war began," my colleague continued, "resistance, protest, criticism, complaint, all carried with them a multiplied likelihood of the greatest punishment. Mere lack of enthusiasm, or failure to show it in public, was "defeatism." You assumed that there were lists of those who would be "dealt with" later, after the victory. Goebbels was very clever here, too. He continually promised a "victory orgy" to "take care of" those who thought that their "treasonable attitude" had escaped notice. And he meant it; that was not just propaganda. And that was enough to put an end to all uncertainty.""
(the last bit describes people like bill o'reilly, ann coulter & tucker carlson perfectly)

the same philologist talked about 'pastor niemoller' in the same chapter a bit later on; i wondered for the longest time where this famous quotation came from:
"Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something -- but then it was too late."

the whole chapter is here:
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding the different smells produced by alternative fuels for automobiles and trucks - used cooking oils that smells like the food cooked, such as McDiesel, or the officially dubbed "clean laundry" smell of hydrogen combustion - from Alan Alda [actor].

That will be a thing that people do; smelling each others tailpipes

absolutely prophetic!!! :biggrin:

[Abhorsen]

Does the walker choose the path or path the walker ?

Garth Nix

[enricfemi]

you may live,but just for a while

wallace

[Ivan Seeking]

Question: All mariners know that if a man falls off the boat, you are supposed to yell "man overboard!". What are you supposed to yell if a woman falls off the boat? Answer [Paul Lynde]: Full speed ahead!!!

[Moridin]

'Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.' - Louis Pasteur

'A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.' - Max Planck

'Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?' - Victor Hugo

'There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.' - Richard Feynman

'Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?' - Carl Sagan

'In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual' - Galileo Galilei

'To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.' - Modern Zen poem

'Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?' - Victor Hugo

[Jimmy Snyder]

Has this one been posted yet?
The zen you find at the top of the mountain is the zen you bring with you.

[Ivan Seeking]

Robert Novak? I love Robert Novak. He has one of the finest minds of the 12th century. - Paul Begala

[Astronuc]

physics goes in the part of my brain with Algebra, British comedy, and making flambe. Ill never understand it :rofl: ManiacMike on some internet forum about spacewarps, wormholes and FTL travel. :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Without a doubt, Stephen [Hawking] is the most stubborn person in the entire universe!
- Leonard Susskind

[Ivan Seeking]

From a couple of CNN viewers commenting on a story about divorce:

Love is fleeting but stuff lasts forever. I want to keep my stuff.

Marriage again? It would be easier to just find a woman that I don’t like and buy her a house.

[fourier jr]

The West has never been allowed to forget the Nazi holocaust. For 55 years there has been a continuous outpouring of histories, memoirs, novels, feature films, documentaries, television series... played and replayed in every Western language; there have been museums, memorial sculptures, photo expositions, remembrance ceremonies... Never Again! But who hears the voice of the Vietnamese peasant? Who has access to the writings of the Vietnamese intellectual? What was the fate of the Vietnamese Anne Frank? Where, asks the young American, is Vietnam?
Bill Blum, Killing Hope

This science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.
Galois

[Astronuc]

At least I don't have to put up with the administriviality.

A friend and co-worker on changing employment.

[turbo]

The West has never been allowed to forget the Nazi holocaust. For 55 years there has been a continuous outpouring of histories, memoirs, novels, feature films, documentaries, television series... played and replayed in every Western language; there have been museums, memorial sculptures, photo expositions, remembrance ceremonies... Never Again! But who hears the voice of the Vietnamese peasant? Who has access to the writings of the Vietnamese intellectual? What was the fate of the Vietnamese Anne Frank? Where, asks the young American, is Vietnam?
Bill Blum, Killing Hope

This science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.
GaloisYou should know that Ho Chi Minh was a patriot. When the OSS contacted him During WWII, he wanted to drive the Japanese out of his country and he promised to do that. The OSS asked what he wanted, and he said that he wanted 12 Colt 1911 pistols with holster rigs and ammunition as a show of US support. One for himself, and one for each of his deputies, and he wanted a promise that the Vietnamese people could rule themsevles, and not be subject as a colony of a foreign government. After the war, our government gave him nothing and gave the region back to France. The roots of that war lie in the deceptions and the unmet promises of WWII.

[moe darklight]

Here's my official boring friday with no plans Quote-O-Rama!

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
- Emo Philips

"What's wrong with getting what you want?"
- McLusky

"Heaven's just a scab away"
- Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen but he could not read it; he thought I was just trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg (R.I.P)

If ignorant people could fly, it'd always be dark out.
- My dad says his dad used to say that. I don't know where it's from but I like it.

(on the Bush administration) Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
(to bush) The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.
- Stephen Colbert

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell

Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
- Scott Adams

(...) in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie (...)
- Hitler (ironically, he was referring to the Jews' "big lie", not his own)

What, me worry?
- Alfred E. Neuman

But I'm hungry now.

[end3r7]

"The volume of success is a product of wide experience, deep imagination, and a lengthy effort.
One may at times find himself lost in an area where his knowledge is useless, and even become reduced to an ordinary line of thinking. But as long as he does not fail to try, he will never reach the point of no return." - moi

This one cracks me up every time
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive." - Van Wilder

[teknodude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-cnizLDEE

[matthyaouw]

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
Albert Einstein

[Astronuc]

One of the frustrations in science and engineering is learning not be frustrated. :biggrin: It helps to have a certain level of stubborness or perserverance, not so much to hold on to old ideas or notions, but to be able to push on regardless, even if it means developing new ideas or understanding.

Somebody is bound to have realized this in their career.

[fourier jr]

Evariste Galois was a strange and complex character. Genius, dreamer, poet, revolutionary - he was all these with a passion which would early have burned him out, had fate permitted him a less violent death. He truly belonged to the age which produced the romantic poets, musicians and revolutionaries who were his contemporaries, most of whom died young.
B Melvin Kiernan

Preserve my memory, since fate has not given me life enough for the country to know my name.
Galois (who now has a street & a moon crater named after him, & has one of the best stories in math)

[Astronuc]

It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privelege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.
<D. Sutten>


There is nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. <Anonymous>


There comes a period when everything is going well - but don't worry - it won't last. <An optimist>

[Ivan Seeking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-cnizLDEE

I had an employer once tell me the same thing on my first day of work. :rofl:

[Jallu]

I think it's my own, but possibly I picked it up somewhere. :smile:

"Once the question is clear, the answer is near."

[Astronuc]

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong...although I'm sure downloading illegal files, but, nah, that's a different story.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. - Jon Stewart's advice to the graduates of William and Mary, 2004.

'Oops...We Broke the World' (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/147/story_14743_2.html)

[Evo]

"It is better to be rich and healthy than to be poor and sick."

I read this the other day.

[Ivan Seeking]

Why do today what I can do tomorrow? If I wait until tomorrow I'll be under pressure, and I work better under pressure - Charlie Brown

[Ivan Seeking]

Scully: Kuru was transmitted from victim to victim by eating the infected brains of the dead
Mulder: Geez, and I thought my grandpa slurping his soup was bad.

[moe darklight]

(paraphrasing)

"forgive: and be free
forget that you have forgiven: and be freer"

Buddha

[daveb]

From Mindwalk, "Life is infinitely more than your or my obtuse theories about it" (or something like that).

[Astronuc]

Those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

- Albus Dumbledore :approve:


All's well. :wink:

[Danger]

I can't believe that I never noticed this thread before.
My two favourite quotes are confrontational, in a defensive sort of way. One is fictional, wherein Spider-Man tells some villain "If you ever hit me again, and I find out about it..."
The best one, along the same line, is true, witnessed by and related to me by a very good friend. It was back in the little Ontario town that he came from. A smallish, quiet guy was sitting at the bar having a beer and minding his own business. For no discernable reason, the huge biker-type sitting beside him just hauled off and belted him in the head. Apparently suffering no ill effect, the little guy slowly turned toward his attacker and said "If that's the best you've got, you'd better go home right ****ing now." He sat alone and unmolested for the rest of the evening. :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, they may have running water on Mars, but they don't have plumbing.
- Jon Stewart

There are more bacteria living in your colon than the total number of people who have ever lived on earth - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thank God the opposite isn't true - Jon Stewart

[Ivan Seeking]

There are more Christians in China than members of the Communist Party - Rob Gifford

THAT was quite a surprising statement! I would assume that only our more mature members can fully appreciate the significance of this.

[EugP]

"I'm not trying to knock you out, I just know I will" - Chuck Lidell

I'm a huge UFC fan, and pretty much a genera MMA fan, so this is probably one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

[rewebster]

I can't place why this came to mind, but it came to mind while I was mediating the other day-






“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/oh-the_comfort-the_inexpressible_comfort_of/170845.html


-(no,.. wait,.. I meant..---meditating)

[Schrodinger's Dog]

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

- Gandhi

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

- Hermann Goering

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent

- Issac Asimov

am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them. Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

- John Fowles, "The Magus"

Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has never truly been there before!

- Larry Reeves

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.

- Peter Weiss

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

- Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos (1741-1803

Revenge is a dish best served cold, unless my French deserts me.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

- Ronald Reagan

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

- Christiaan Huygens, (1629 –1695), In Humanity

How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

- Chuck Palahniuk, In Philosophy

"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."

Annie Dillard

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Barbara Kingsolver

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

General Douglas MacArthur


I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeanette Rankin

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Omar N. Bradley

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Howard Thurman

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

War quotes from the wise.

[ranger]

I always get a kick out of these kinds of discussions:

"By the way, I always felt that hell might not be such a bad place after all: it would be populated with people of at least a somewhat higher average IQ than heaven. It wouldn't get dull, that's for sure.
~Arto (sciforums)

"Yup looks like all the rational thinkers will go to hell – should provoke some really good debates without interruptions from the idiots who will have gone upstairs. So I’ll see you in hell"
~Cris (sciforums) in response to the above (Arto)

[Ivan Seeking]

In my house, we used a smoke alarm as an oven timer - Murphy Brown

[fourier jr]

(for all the canadians)
With the National Policy in ruins, the tariff failing to generate sufficient employment, the West empty, Ontario in revolt, and discontent rife in Manitoba and Nova Scotia, the Old Chieftan rose to the occasion. A time of grave national crisis required strong, imaginative leadership. The Macdonald government resonded by falsifying the 1890-91 census returns, bribing the statistician to exaggerate the number of factories and hands employed. In one riding the census takers were given instructions to include in the list of factories all blacksmiths, shoemakers and artisans engaged in handicraft production. In another, 72 new industries were reported as having begun since 1881 -- in fact not a single one existed. To increase the apparent population, the names of people who had moved to the US were carefully reported as still present in Canada. -- RT Naylor
:tongue:

[Astronuc]

"Going barefoot is the practice of not wearing shoes, socks, or other foot covering." :rofl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot

For those who might miss the exceedingly obvious.

Well, were would we be without Wikipedia!?

[Ivan Seeking]

I don't believe in the lesser of two evils. I believe in the evil of two lessers. - a buddy speaking of the field of 2008 Presidential candidates.

[morphism]

J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: "Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules!" Dieu m'a exaucé.
- Voltaire

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson

And on the more humorous side:

Dressed like he's ready to run a marathon. Fitting because his class is long-winded.
- Professor evaluation

[Ivan Seeking]

The money don't matter... as long as I'm getting it. - Groucho Marx

[Ki Man]

Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation. -R. Feynman

[mgb_phys]

From which we know that Feynman considered himself a physicist not a mathematician.

[morphism]

From which we know that Feynman considered himself a physicist not a mathematician.
And that he must've been having quite the masturbation sessions!

[ranger]

In light of all the unprofessionalism and incompetence shown by the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) and the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) and its management, I've been hearing a couple of comments over and over again:

"F*ck the MTA"
~More than half of New York City.

"The MTA is F*cking up"
~More than half of New York City.

http://www.mta.info/alert/images/alerthomenyct-sm.gif

[Ivan Seeking]

"I will not be right back after this message" - requested as an epitaph by Merv Griffin.

This reminded me of the epitaph seen on two headstones during a recent funeral: "See you soon"

[Ivan Seeking]

"I don't think the military would lie about anything because they are too worried about their public image" - a noted UFO conspiracy theory debunker.

Sometimes the debunkers are more naive than the true-believers.

[Astronuc]

"Hey, this is real science. We get to make stuff up."

Mentioned during a recent project meeting. :tongue:

[turbo]

Einstsin in a memoriam on the death of Ernst Mach:

"How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there no more valuable work in his specialty? I hear many of my colleagues saying, and I sense it from many more, that they feel this way. I cannot share this sentiment. ... Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they come to be stamped as 'necessities of thought,' 'a priori givens,' etc. The path of scientific advance is often made impassable for a long time through such errors. For that reason, it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analyzing the long common place concepts and exhibiting those circumstances upon which their justification and usefulness depend, how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. By this means, their all-too-great authority will be broken."

Any person who aspires to the title of "scientist" cannot claim that title if they have not wrestled with these demons. They are many, and they are very foundational.

[Ivan Seeking]

Today, from Craigslist:

The bathroom at the Minnesota airport
The bathroom at the park
The bathroom at the rest stop
...

[josht]

"If you are always looking down, you will never see what lies above you."
- C.S. Lewis

[moe darklight]

"You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem, and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for the artist."

— Anton Chekhov

meanwhile, the poor scientist must worry about both :biggrin:.

"-Ésa es natural condición de mujeres -dijo don Quijote-: desdeñar a quien
las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece. Pasa adelante, Sancho."

(my attempt at a translation):
"That is a natural condition of women," said Don Quixote: "to disdain the ones who love them, and love the ones who hate them. Now, go on, Sancho."

— Miguel De Cervantes

[fargoth]

The Church of the SubGenius® has some great quotes in their Pamphlets:

YOU MUST BE SAVED
-- EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU!!

ETERNAL SALVATION
-- OR TRIPLE YOUR MONEY BACK

LIVE WITH YOUR SINS!!
-- "Bob" Dobbs Can Show You How!

THIS INCREDIBLE NEW FAITH, AUTHORIZED TO BLASPHEME BY THE GODS THEMSELVES, IS THE FIRST ALL-PURPOSE BELIEF SYSTEM TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH MOST MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS AND MANY WEIRD CULTS -- WITHOUT EXPENSIVE INTERFACES!!

theres also a movie =) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=189126860809168021&q=ivan+stang&hl=en)
and another one... (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746465052705276656)

and now, for something completely different...

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

I'm not just talking about my wife, I'm talking about my LIFE, I can't seem to get that through to you. I'm not just talking about one person, I'm talking about everybody. I'm talking about form. I'm talking about content. I'm talking about interrelationships. I'm talking about God, the devil, Hell, Heaven. Do you understand... FINALLY?
-Harding (one flew over the cuckoo's nest)

"his name was Robert Paulson"
and
"I just wanted to destroy something beautiful"
-fight club

and finaly, i'd like to quote a song:
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles per hour
It's orbiting at nineteen miles per second, so it's reckoned
The Sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun, and you, and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are travelling at a million miles per day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles per hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way

The galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
The fastest it can go
The speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So, remember when you're feeling down and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And hope that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth

heres the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmeSBUPswM)

(i know it's too much... i got carried away =P)

[Ivan Seeking]

GQ magazine interviewer: Do you miss the President?

Donald Rumsfeld: Mmmmmm, no.
________________________________________

"What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it's terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?" - Colin Powell

[Astronuc]

Putting reseach and science in context.

It's the birthday of naturalist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould, (books by this author) born in New York City (1941). He was five years old when his father took him to the Museum of Natural History, and he saw his first dinosaur skeleton, a 20-foot high tyrannosaurus. He went on to study geology and paleontology and wrote his dissertation on an extinct land snail native to the Bahamas. He once said that his research on the taxonomy of the snail was of interest to about eight people in the world, but, he said, "Those eight people really care."

In 1974, he was offered a job writing a monthly column for Natural History magazine. He decided that his guiding focus in the column would be the theory of evolution, but aside from that, he would write about whatever he was interested in, from the history of Mickey Mouse to the unreliability of IQ tests. His essays were collected in books such as The Panda's Thumb (1980) and The Flamingo's Smile (1985), and he became one of the most famous scientists in America. He believed he was successful simply because he tried to be a good writer. He said, "So many scientists think that once they figure it out, that's all they have to do, and writing it up is just a chore. I never saw it that way; part of the art of any kind of total scholarship is to say it well.''

Stephen Jay Gould said, "Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree."

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/09/10/#monday

[Moridin]

"Science is the poetry of reality" - Richard Dawkins

"Reason and the respect for evidence are the source of our progress; our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth. We live in dangerous times when superstition is on the rise and rational science is under attack" - Richard Dawkins

[Ivan Seeking]

The US ambassador to Iraq [Crocker] on the future of Iraq: "My confidence is under control".

[Math Jeans]

Woman: Sir Winston! You're drunk!
Winston: Yes madam, and you're ugly, and in the morning, I shall be sober.

[Ivan Seeking]

The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb...

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added...
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=61671&sc=89

[Astronuc]

"Semper gumby" - "Always flexible". :rofl: Well, you'd have to know the context to appreciate the humor.

a play on "Semper Fi" short for "Semper fidelis" - "Always faithful"

[B. Elliott]

"Think yourself a puny form when within yourself the Universe is folded." - Sufis

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours, that's relativity." - Albert Einstein

[turbo]

Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams

[Izzhov]

"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver." -George Carlin

[Ivan Seeking]

~ After my work in show business, I had a fairly extensive vocabulary of four letter words. When I had my first meeting [with Nixon], that vocabulary was significantly augmented. - Alan Greenspan.

[glondor]

"It's the things you do you don't have to do that makes the differance before it's to late to do anything about it". Dont know who wrote it but I like it and try to live it.

[Burnsys]

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

[Ivan Seeking]

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Nice.

[turbo]

"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."

Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

[Astronuc]

And we are talking about the y-direction (also known as the j direction). :rofl: Doc Al

[dilletante]

some Kurt Vonnegut quotes:

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

[enricfemi]

some Kurt Vonnegut quotes:

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

what is conquer and what we conquered?

[rewebster]

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benjamindi136856.html


"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
Benjamin Disraeli

[Jimmy Snyder]

"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver." -George Carlin
He's wrong on one point. I am a very bad driver and freely admit it. However, I'm not the worst. When people tailgate me and grumble what a poor driver I am, they fail to see the irony.

I don't have a favorite quote, there are too many great ones. But just now, I'm liking this one:

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. - Will Rogers.

[rewebster]

“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places”

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mark_twain/


“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”

[rewebster]

"The more I know about men the more I like dogs."

-- Gloria Allred

[Evo]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Jimmy Snyder]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that's great, but then what do I know?

[rewebster]

"Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show."

David Gerrold

[Ivan Seeking]

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen." - Ann Coulter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905799/posts

A true American!!! :rofl:

[Izzhov]

“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”

I love that movie!

[Ivan Seeking]

Question to Mit Romney in a town hall meeting: "If you are elected, how many first ladies will we have?"

[Astronuc]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He forsaw GW? :bugeye:

[Astronuc]

the First Law of Materials Science is

"Everything can be broken".

http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/elmat_en/kap_3/backbone/r3_5_1.htm

[pace]

"Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yeah, we all know that. :rofl: And some of us from personal experience :blush:

http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=61671&sc=89

.....yay......

----

"I am not my oppinions, but much rather my commitments"



................... I still wish I were my oppinions tho :biggrin:

[moe darklight]

Once I dreamt that I suddenly realized that I could travel through time by drinking anti-freeze.
:rofl:

[fourier jr]

Creative politics at the national level has not been known in Canada since before World War I when the westward thrust to Canada's empire was still a major national goal. Since the empire of the west was secured national goals of development have not been known. Creative politics is politics which has the capacity to change the social structure in the direction of major social goals or values. By mobilizing human resources for new purposes, it has the initiative in the struggle against the physical environment and against dysfunctional historical arrangements. Creative politics requires a highly developed political leadership to challenge entrenched power within other institutional orders. It succeeds in getting large segments of the population identified with the goals of the political system and in recruiting their energies to political ends.
John Porter

[JasonRox]

I have many favourite quotes. The current one on my MSN name is...

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity." - James F. Bymes

[fourier jr]

Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well-fitted to make discoveries
Claude Bernard

[Werg22]

I find the non-pragmatic quotes to be redundant and have an element of pseudo-depth.

[rewebster]

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt



I read the above one first, and then ran across this one:

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
- Paris Hilton

I wondered if Paris has learned anything from the time when she did say that --yet.

[Evo]

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt



I read the above one first, and then ran across this one:

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
- Paris Hilton

I wondered if Paris has learned anything from the time when she did say that --yet.That's an old quote, it was someone like Zsa Zsa Gabor or Mae West that originally said it.

[rewebster]

That's an old quote, it was someone like Zsa Zsa Gabor or Mae West that originally said it.

Paris, Mae, Marilyn, Zsa Zsa----why are all the good women alcoholics and gold diggers?

(it was Mae West who said it--I don't think Paris has said anything and original and 'quotable' yet)

[7ala.elward]

I will drive the walking Wst and will not stand observant the passerby procession in front of me .
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jobran khaliel jobran

[Ivan Seeking]

"The Supreme Court ruled today that George Bush will be awarded the Nobel Prize instead of Al Gore. That was the joke going around Washington today." - David Brooks.

[Astronuc]

"The Supreme Court ruled today that George Bush will be awarded the Nobel Prize instead of Al Gore. That was the joke going around Washington today." - David Brooks. :rofl:



There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia.

[Ivan Seeking]

....yay......

Hopefully everyone gets the irony of an "environmentally friendly" bomb. Only a politician could come up with that one!

[rewebster]

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains,


because the average man can see better than he can think.

~Author Unknown

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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.


Mae West

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I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

--Ogden Nash

[pace]

Hopefully everyone gets the irony of an "environmentally friendly" bomb. Only a politician could come up with that one!

Yeah. Soon we'll be told a whole lot of people will die environmentally friendly I'm sure.

[Lockheed]

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

-- Albert Einstein

[rewebster]

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe


-----------------------------------------------
I never had a man come to me for advice yet,

but what I soon discovered that

he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Josh Billings

[Evo]

I think this has already been quoted, but it bears repeating.

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

–Anonymous

[Andre]

That's where groupthink (http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/06/howd-we-get-here-from-there.htm) is generated.

[Ivan Seeking]

Stephen Colbert: Ah, the famous pocket Constitution. Did you shrink it yourself?

Dennis Kucinich: No, George Bush already did that for me

[Ivan Seeking]

One in three meals is eaten in a car
http://media.pbs.org/ramgen/newshour/expansion/2007/10/16/20071016_school28.rm?altplay=20071016_school28.rm

That is amazing!

[Phred101.2]

I thought Colin Powell was a big letdown. He could have made a good Pres. but now he's blown it, well for a while anyway. I thought the guy had class until the UN crap.

[rewebster]

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,

the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'

but,

'that's funny...'

Isaac Asimov

______________________________________

All great discoveries are made by men
whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

[Astronuc]

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,

the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'

but,

'that's funny...'

Isaac Asimov Right up there with "WTF!" which is sometimes followed by "That wasn't supposed to happen", which precedes my involvement. :biggrin:

[rewebster]

Right up there with "WTF!" which is sometimes followed by "That wasn't supposed to happen", which precedes my involvement. :biggrin:

so your job can be called either 'The Janitor' or 'The Bounty Hunter'?----

[Astronuc]

More like the Janitor or Mr. Fixit.

When technology don't go as planned - for the last 30+ years.

Keeps me busy - and employed - for a long time to come.

[Ironside]

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. - Jack Dempsey

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Einstein

A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot. - Einstein

[Ivan Seeking]

A politician should always be sincere whether he means it or not - Pat Paulsen

[Ivan Seeking]

From [I assume] the Dean of Wellesley College, while introducing Hillary as the guest speaker:
You should have seen the debate last night: It was six guys all ganging up on Hillary, which is what I call a fair fight!

I'm not a Hillary fan, but I liked that one.

[Astronuc]

Hear me, four quarters of the world.

A relative I am!

Give me the strength to walk the soft earth.

Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand.

Look upon these faces of children without number,
that they may face the winds and walk the good road to the day of quiet.

This is my prayer; hear me.


The Sacred Hoop (Ring/Circle)
Then I was standing on the higher mountain of them all,

and around beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell,

and I understood more than I saw.

For I was seing in the sacred manner the shape of all things of the spirit

and the shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that make one circle;

wide as daylight and starlight,

and in the center grew one mighty tree

to shelter all the children of one mother and one father

And I saw that it was holy.

Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) of the Oglala Lakota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk

Remarkable person with great wisdom he was.

[turbo]

Right up there with "WTF!" which is sometimes followed by "That wasn't supposed to happen", which precedes my involvement. :biggrin:Yep, that was probably the motivating factor behind my travel to far-flung pulp and paper mills more often than I know. Once you solve a few WTF problems, word gets around. In industry, time not only equals money, it is the life-blood of the business and sub-standard efficiencies for any significant period of time can destroy your company, especially if you are producing a commodity like wood pulp, paper, etc that can be picked up anywhere and can't easily be branded.

The paper machine that I was the lead operator on from start-up and six years thereafter made coated, calendared paper for Elle, Playboy centerfolds, and other uses where high print quality was essential. I could have accepted nominal adviser status at any number of paper mills after that and have made a whole lot of money for not a lot of work, but my old employer and the manufacturer of the initial paper machine would still be suing me to this day. Not good.

[Phred101.2]

Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) of the Oglala Lakota
The haka (battle dance) performed by the Tainui tribe of the NZ Maori (people) ends as follows (it was first spoken by a chief who was emerging from a cave where he had hidden from an enemy):

..."E houpane! E koupane!
E houpane koupane, whiti Te Ra!"

...which means "I step forward! I step back!
I step forward I step back, the Sun shines!"

this was essentially a giving of thanks to both the Sun and to the grace of his enemy for not killing him as he emerged. Many chiefs were accomplished poets and speakers.
Just a little insight into what the NZ All-Black rugby team does before the kick-off...

[rhuthwaite]

The haka (battle dance) performed by the Tainui tribe of the NZ Maori (people) ends as follows (it was first spoken by a chief who was emerging from a cave where he had hidden from an enemy):

..."E houpane! E koupane!
E houpane koupane, whiti Te Ra!"

...which means "I step forward! I step back!
I step forward I step back, the Sun shines!"

this was essentially a giving of thanks to both the Sun and to the grace of his enemy for not killing him as he emerged. Many chiefs were accomplished poets and speakers.
Just a little insight into what the NZ All-Black rugby team does before the kick-off...

I love the haka!!! It's the part of the rugby I just can't miss :tongue:

Glad to see you can still talk about the ABs with pride!!

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, everyone complains about the weather but no one ever does anything about it! - Zoobyshoe

If Kucinich is elected President, his wife would be the first First Lady with a pierced tongue - unknown, but probably from The Daily Show or The Colbert Report

[Math Jeans]

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. ”

~ Terry Pratchett on fire

:rofl: I love this one.

[rewebster]

Dogs look up to you.
Cats look down on you.

Give me a pig.
He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal.


- Winston Churchill






http://ecards.alege.net:81/31/pig_smiling.jpg

[Ivan Seeking]

"Giuliani got the support of Pat Robertson today. That's about like getting a kiss from your crazy old aunt!" - Cafferty.

[Astronuc]

This could go in LOL, but

"Politicians are like diapers, they all stink and should be replaced frequently!" :rofl:

From the new Robin Williams movie, or so I was told.

[Ivan Seeking]

This could go in LOL, but

"Politicians are like diapers, they all stink and should be replaced frequently!" :rofl:

From the new Robin Williams movie, or so I was told.

Hah! I heard that recently and meant to quote it.

Here is one from a newspaper today.

Gary Lindstrom has lived in Summit County since 1974 and is a retired police officer and a recovering politician.
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20071118/COLUMNS/71116006/0/FRONTPAGE

[Ivan Seeking]

When you go to Toys R Us these days, they ask if you want to see the leaded or unleaded toys
- Mark Shields

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding Obama...approximate:

uhhh, yunno, uh, I don't wanna sound like a racist or anything, but I wouldn't vote for a colored man for President
- Some racist on the CBS Evening news

[Ivan Seeking]

Katie Couric - Question: Besides the Bible, what would be the one book that you would take with you to the White House?

Hillary Clinton - Answer: I would take my copy of the Constitution because apparently they don't have one.

[Ivan Seeking]

Glen Beck commenting on his dedication to his faith; today on the Situation Room, on CNN:

If they [the Mormons] had Kool-Aid in the basement, I'd drink it!

I'm sure that helped Mit Romney alleviate people's concerns about his church a great deal!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Astronuc]

I may be on old dog, but I can still learn new tricks. - an old dog.

which someday will become

I may be an old dog, but I can learn one new trick.

[lunarmansion]

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness--Chinese Proverb

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them--Henry David Thoreau

[lunarmansion]

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors-Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative-Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to conpensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is--Francis Bacon

[lunarmansion]

The gods too are fond of a good joke-Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims-Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind-Aristotle

[akatz]

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

– Frank Leahy

[Andre]

If you show an honest man why he is wrong, he either stops being wrong or he stops being honest

Anonymus.

[devil-fire]

the strong feed on the weak and the clever feed on the strong.

[Ivan Seeking]

"After years in Washington, I long for the honesty and sincerity of Hollywood" - Fred Thompson

[Astronuc]

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the message straight through, and you'll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?


The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.











Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Easier?


The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.

They are the ones who care. :approve: :cool:

[Astronuc]

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the message straight through, and you'll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?











The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.


Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
Easier?


The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.

They are the ones who care. :approve: :cool:

[lunarmansion]

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great. -Mark Twain

[Andre]

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

They are the ones who care. :approve: :cool:

That's awesome, Astro, I can't google it back but the best peanuts strip goes like this:

Lucy: Why are we on Earth?

Charley Brown: I don't know, perhaps to make somebody else happy.

Lucy (running away crying): Happy? I'm not happy! somebody is not doing his job!

Edit: However what I learned in 54 years is that in trying to make some people happy, it's very tough to avoid making other people unhappy.

[lunarmansion]

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.- Voltaire
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. [Uncle Vanya, 1897] Anton Checkhov

[Ivan Seeking]

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?

Ask who the five Star Trek Commanders were and I'll bet that half of PF can answer that one. [Bonus points for the sixth] :biggrin:

So what is the lesson here? :uhh:

[rewebster]

“Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.”

Cicero

[Ivan Seeking]

“Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.”

Cicero

Boy, I would sure argue that one - I would say the love of logic.

[rewebster]

Maybe the love of 'logic and wisdom'--

(word's meanings may have changed a little since they sat around the Colosseum drinking and watching the action.)

[DaveC426913]

Ask who the five Star Trek Commanders were and I'll bet that half of PF can answer that one. [Bonus points for the sixth] :biggrin:


Which show? Uhuru is fifth in command (I think), though she's not a Commander.

[Ivan Seeking]

There were five series. I was referring to the lead roles in each.

Actually, what made me think of this was an audience test done years ago on something like the Johnny Carson show. Hardly anyone could remember the National Anthem, but almost everyone could sing the Brady Bunch song. :biggrin:

[lunarmansion]

A man cannot think deeply and exert his utmost muscular force.- Charles Darwin(Expression of the emotions in man and animals.)

[Math Jeans]

Ask who the five Star Trek Commanders were and I'll bet that half of PF can answer that one. [Bonus points for the sixth] :biggrin:

So what is the lesson here? :uhh:

I only know Kirk and Archer. The famous one and the new one.

[NeoDevin]

Kirk, Archer, Janeway, Sisko, Picard (not in order...)

[DaveC426913]

Kirk, Archer, Janeway, Sisko, Picard (not in order...)
Then this was a gimme. You might as well ask who carried the ring to Mordor.

I thought you were posing a question that at least some people might not get...

[Math Jeans]

Then this was a gimme. You might as well ask who carried the ring to Mordor.

What? :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

Then this was a gimme. You might as well ask who carried the ring to Mordor.

I thought you were posing a question that at least some people might not get...

Who was the sixth?

[NeoDevin]

Christopher Pike

Or if you include the animated series, there was also Robert April.

[Huckleberry]

Maybe the love of 'logic and wisdom'--

(word's meanings may have changed a little since they sat around the Colosseum drinking and watching the action.)

So if I asked you about art you could
give me the skinny on every art book
ever written...Michelangelo?
You know a lot about him I bet. Life's
work, criticisms, political aspirations.
But you couldn't tell me what it smells
like in the Sistine Chapel. You've
never stood there and looked up at
that beautiful ceiling. And if I asked
you about women I'm sure you could
give me a syllabus of your personal
favorites, and maybe you've been laid
a few times too. But you couldn't
tell me how it feels to wake up next
to a woman and be truly happy. If I
asked you about war you could refer me
to a bevy of fictional and non-fictional
material, but you've never been in
one. You've never held your best
friend's head in your lap and watched
him draw his last breath, looking to
you for help. And if I asked you about
love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never
looked at a woman and been truly
vulnerable. Known that someone could
kill you with a look. That someone
could rescue you from grief.
That God had put an angel on Earth
just for you. And you wouldn't know
how it felt to be her angel. To have
the love be there for her forever.
Through anything, through cancer. You
wouldn't know about sleeping sitting
up in a hospital room for two months
holding her hand and not leaving because
the doctors could see in your eyes
that the term "visiting hours" didn't
apply to you. And you wouldn't know
about real loss, because that only
occurs when you lose something you
love more than yourself, and you've
never dared to love anything that much.
I look at you and I don't see an
intelligent confident man, I don't see
a peer, and I don't see my equal. I
see a boy. Nobody could possibly
understand you, right Will? Yet you
presume to know so much about me because
of a painting you saw. You must know
everything about me. You're an orphan,
right?

Will nods quietly.

SEAN (cont'd)
Do you think I would presume to know
the first thing about who you are
because I read "Oliver Twist?" And I
don't buy the argument that you don't
want to be here, because I think you
like all the attention you're getting.
Personally, I don't care. There's
nothing you can tell me that I can't
read somewhere else. Unless we talk
about your life. But you won't do
that. Maybe you're afraid of what
you might say.
Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting

(And yet some things stay the same.)

[Ivan Seeking]

~ "This year I will vote however my wife does. In 2000, she voted for Gore, and I voted for Bush, and I will never live it down"

--- viewer comment today on the Cafferty File

[pace]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

The bad thing about being unemployed is that right when you get up, you're on the job.

- Unknown


Not so funny:

I used to be a vegetarian, but then I leaned to the sunny side of life.

- Don't remember.

[pace]

This one's a bit consilidating for us hobby-philosophers who doesn't seem to get a deegre from it:

"A good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and a good philosopher is at least half a mathematician" - Gottlob Frege.

uh, maybe not so consilidating since he ended up quite lonely and depressed himself. Great historical mathematician and logican nonetheless.

[Andre]

Knowledge is power.
Power currupts.

Knowledge corrupts?

[rewebster]

Who was the sixth?

Riker

[rewebster]

Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting



good movie---

[jim mcnamara]

This is my favorite quote:

If you went to the trouble to read this, then you have too much time on your hands:
Terry: God helps those who help themselves
Larry: God helps thieves?

[ranger]

From am episode of scrubs:

Cox: You are, in fact, a perfectly healthy 26-year-old doctor who keeps
whining about how horrible his father was.
J.D.: Well, he did some considerable emotional damage, so...
Cox: Every one of our parents does considerable emotional damage, and from
what I've heard, it just might be the best part of being a
parent. Now, if some guy ever does put a ring on your finger and
you're lucky enough to pop out a youngster I'm sure you'll
understand. But for now, believe me when I tell you I wouldn't
care if this was the first time you ever met your daddy. Because,
in reality... well, he could have done a much, much worse job.

[DaveC426913]

From am episode of scrubs:
:rofl: I love Scrubs.

Inimitably, Cox' line there is actually a compliment to J.D. (read last line, all the rest is smoke screen).

[rewebster]

Quote from my Grandfather:

I was about twelve staying with the grandparents one summer and he answered my question about which piece of chicken he liked to eat first (but it really covers just about anything in life):

"Eat the best first, and you'll always have the best."

(meaning: of what's left, there will a 'best' of the group still to choose from)

[RyanSchw]

“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are.” –Richard Feynman

“I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don’t confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything is gonnna be alright.” –George Carlin

[grafica]

unborn tommorrow dead yesterday
why fred about them if today be sweat

[Math Jeans]

"He has no enemies, but is intensly disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend...if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." - Response from Winston Churchill

"Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!" - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it!" - Response from Winston Churchill

[sdeed]

Life is too short, you need to spend more time with the people you love

[Ivan Seeking]

The Clintons have dreamed of the day that a black man would be President; but not on their watch! - Carl Bernstein

[pitot-tube]

" If you didn't cure cancer today then you did nothing today"

CLINT EASTWOOD

[Ivan Seeking]

So you are going to send the Daleks to hell?!?!?

I told you he was good. :approve:

- Mickey

[_Mayday_]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"

- Jimi Hendrix

[Ivan Seeking]

South Carolina is not what the Greeks had in mind when they founded democracy.
- Mark Shields
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june08/sbfallon_01-18.html

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Math Jeans]

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I send a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

[SpitfireAce]

Why is it that Physicists always always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for papers, pencils, and waste paper baskets and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for waste paper baskets.
-University President

There is no such thing as a foolproof device, because fools are so ingenious

[falc39]

The stories speak to something inside us that wants to know how our world lives, that wants to make order of it and find some meaning. Myths fulfill that in a way that science and facts don't always do, because science and facts don't always give us meaning.

This is my all time favorite quote for the reason that the first time I read it, I seriously felt like a switch was suddenly turned on in my head. It's like I never realized that there was such a different way of seeing things in the world. My bookshelf now is incredibly different than what it was two or three years ago.

[turbo]

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I send a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop
All three are great, though Groucho and Twain have a special place in my heart. If you haven't read Ambrose Bierce's "Devils Dictionary", you should. You seem to have an appreciation for the sardonic that matches mine.

[hypatia]

Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Larry the Cable Guy

[hubertg]

"Mix religion and politics and you get politics"

[Andre]

Have we covered this one?

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty two miles. This is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

[euler_fan]

However, I'm not denying' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I promise I will never even THINK about going up in a tall building again.
John McClane (Die Hard)

[Andre]

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.” Pierre-Simon Laplace

For an alternative point of view:

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Josh Billings

[grafica]

man ,proud man
rest in the little brief authority
most ignorant of what hes assured
playing fantastics tricks before high heaven
as make the angels weep..............

[Ivan Seeking]

The other day I felt like exercising, so I decided to lie down until the feeling went away - WC Fields.

[_Mayday_]

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

- Ernest Rutherford


I like the quote, but have absolutely no idea what it means :cry:

[lisab]

Not that I would know, first hand...

"Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places." -- Garrison Keillor


But my personal favorite:

"They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now!" -- Bob Monkhouse

:rofl: Makes me laugh every time I hear it!

[AFG34]

its supposed to be "favourite quotations"

[Chipmunks]

I heard "killing two birth with one stone". I find this is not enough

Because people can kill more than two birds with one stone
I have read many lyrics millions of times. I think I may clearify about these people in my signature next time. They must rise and be famous!

[DaveC426913]

I heard "killing two birth with one stone". I find this is not enough
Are you wearing a Freudian slip?

[DaveC426913]

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

- Ernest Rutherford


I like the quote, but have absolutely no idea what it means :cry:

My interpretation is that he's saying all sciences - chemistry, biology, astronomy, even psychology are nothing more than a logical extrapolation of the fundamental phenomena that are studied in physics. They are all extremely narrowly-focused studies of physics.

eg. Even the way your mind works can be ultimately traced back to subatmic particle interaction.

[ffleming7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
-Carl Sagan's quote about the Pale Blue Dot

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-Abraham Lincoln

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And I must follow if I can.

Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it meets some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

[Astronuc]

For the older folks -

It's never to late to recapture who you were,

or to become who you want to be.

Don't pass on your dreams.

- synthesized from characters on Kyle XY.

[Ivan Seeking]

We are the universe trying to understand itself - a buddy of mine, original source unknown

[ranger]

"Life so fragile. Loss so sudden; many hearts so broken. In the wake of such a loss, we’re haunted by things we don’t - and may never - understand. Yet the solace we seek may not come from answers. Therefore, we look for comfort in the belief of love’s everlasting connection. May that love lift you, hold you close, and give you peace."
~Pt. SURESH SUGRIM.
Original Letter (http://myguyanachronicle.com/2007/10/26/new-jersey-arya-samaj-share-grief/)

[Ivan Seeking]

The Innuit have a language that is ten-thousand years old, but they never had a word for "robin". Now they have robins flying all around.
- Sen John McCain

[Astronuc]

There is a time for compromise - it's called "later". - some wiseguy, smart@$$.


I recommend our 'wildest' expectations be downgraded to 'great'. - some optimist. :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

"Why, this is so simple that even a four year old child could understand it. Now, someone go find me a four year old child. I can't make heads or tails out of this". - Groucho Marx

[Ivan Seeking]

A lie requires two people: One to lie and one to listen. - From Bill Moyer's Journal tonight.

[Ivan Seeking]

Regarding concerns expressed by the 60+ crowd that Obama is too young to be President, Ellen Goodman asks a rather interesting question:

Is it possible that the very people who didn't trust anyone over thirty when they were twenty, now won't trust anyone under fifty, when they're sixty?

[Astronuc]

"I'm taking the weekend off - for the rest of the year" :biggrin:

Came up in a conversation with a colleague. We've been working 12+ hr days and weekends for several weeks now.

[Danger]

I totally lost track of this thread, and don't have time to read the whole thing now, so this might be a rerun.
In the second worst movie that I've ever tried to watch (after 'The 40-Year Old Virgin'), namely 'Lost In America', the wife reprimands Albert Brooks when he returns from the bathroom in the middle of the night with, "Didn't your mother teach you to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom?"
His response was, "No; she taught me not to piss on my fingers."
It was the only decent thing about that show, and we had to stop watching after half an hour.

[_Mayday_]

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Einstein

[Ivan Seeking]

Reporter: Some analysts are predicting that gasoline will hit $4 a gallon this summer.

Bush: Really, I hadn't heard that.

[CaptainQuasar]

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows
obedience like corn, which grows in
rows and makes weeding easy. But
sometimes it grows the potatoes of
defiance, which flourish underground.”· Terry Pratchett

―


“Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.”· A.E. Houseman

―


“For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike:
When you are the anvil, bear;
When you are the hammer, strike.”· Spanish Proverb

―

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined,
with all the treasure of the Earth in their military chest;
with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,
take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger
to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must
spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its
author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must
live through all time, or die by suicide.”· Abraham Lincoln⚛

[Astronuc]

The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.

a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)

Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".

[Ivan Seeking]

I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars. - Barack Obama, October, 2002
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/page/2/

[lisab]

The only thing worse than not knowing something, is not knowing that you don't know.

a colleague (this has to do with unforseen problems that could lead to injuries or fatalities)

Similar to "what you don't know may kill you".

Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Same idea; a lot more words.

[CaptainQuasar]

Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Same idea; a lot more words.

LOL! I remember reading that in a little book called “Donald Rumsfeld: Zen Master Poet.”⚛

[Jame]

I don't remember the quote litterally, but Einstein once said something like that the most remarkable thing about nature is that we can actually understand it.

I have a long way to go in the world of science, but the more I learn the more amazed I am that we can make even a slightest sense out of anything. The odds seem so small to me, how come all these square laws work, why and how do the mathematical constants pi and e arise. And what is that we human beings are actually doing when we're "thinking"? If the slightest thing in nature would change it seems that nothing would work anymore.

[Ephratah7]

Basically anything Samuel L Jackson says.

"I'm a mushroom cloud laying mothaf***a, mothaf***a"
"I am the foot f***in masta"
"God came down from heaven and stopped these motha f***in bullets"
"you know cops tend to notice s*** like you're drivin a car drenched in f***in blood"

Some of his best work is in dialogue though, he's Jules.

Jules: Hey f*** nigga what the f*** did you just do to his towel, man?
Vince: I was dryin my hands
Jules: Well you're supposed to wash em first
Vince: Well you watched me wash em
Jules: I saw you get em wet
Vince: I was washin em, this s***'s hard to get off; maybe if I had lather I could do a better job
Jules: I used the same f***in soap you did and when I finished the towel didn't look like no god damn maxipad

Ah I love that movie :biggrin:


God Is Great! God Is Love! God is Good!

[Quincy]

"When history was written, it will say..." -- George Bush at some speech. Lol, looks like he needs to review some basic grammar.

"Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" from the movie Dr. Strangelove.

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." from the movie GoodFellas

[morphism]

"I could never understand ethnic or national pride, because to me pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own -- not something that happens by accident of birth." - George Carlin

[Ivan Seeking]

[William F] Buckley and I debated Ronald Reagan and John McCain's father... and we beat Reagan so badly that day in 1978 that he was never heard from again!

~ George Will

[moe darklight]

"Dreams" by Poe

O! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.
Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
'Twere better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,
And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,
A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.
But should it be- that dream eternally
Continuing- as dreams have been to me
In my young boyhood- should it thus be given,
'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.
For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright
I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light
And loveliness,- have left my very heart
In climes of my imagining, apart
From mine own home, with beings that have been
Of mine own thought- what more could I have seen?
'Twas once- and only once- and the wild hour
From my remembrance shall not pass- some power
Or spell had bound me- 'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night, and left behind
Its image on my spirit- or the moon
Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon
Too coldly- or the stars- howe'er it was
That dream was as that night-wind- let it pass.

I have been happy, tho' in a dream.
I have been happy- and I love the theme:
Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.

[moe darklight]

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel” — Socrates

[Danger]

It's been so many decades since I read this that I can't remember who said it. I believe that it was either one of the old-time scientists like Einstein or Bucky Fuller, or one of the 'Golden Age' SF writers. "Knowledge is the ultimate instrument of Mankind's survival in the universe." I always loved that one for its simplistic truth.

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Dr Wolper: I tell you Boris, that one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles.

Peter O'Toole: from the film Creator.

[ffleming7]

"We cannot achieve perfection, but if we reach for it, then we can achieve excellence."

Patrick Awuah at a TEDGlobal conference.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/156

[mikelepore]

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people, and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, and abolish the wage system."

Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World, ratified in 1905

[moe darklight]

Praise no day until evening, no wife before cremation, no sword till tested, no maid before marriage, no ice till crossed, no ale till it's drunk.

Tend the oak if you want to live under it.

Great deeds and ill deeds often fall within each other's shadow.

Confide in one, never in two. Confide in three and the whole world knows.

Only a fool lies awake all night and broods over his problems. When morning comes he is exhausted. And his troubles are the same as before.

Old Norse sayings (from the Poetic Edda/Hávamál)

[Ivan Seeking]

Chris Mathews [Hardball] ~ Senator Obama, do you ever go to bed laughing at the absurdity of the events of the day?

Obama: Yes, every time I watch a cable news station.

[Ivan Seeking]

~ It was announced today that the Clinton's combined income of 109 million dollars was derived mainly from Bill Clinton's speaking engagements, book sales, and stud fees.
- SNL

[Astronuc]

How true is this?
Politicians consider a collection of platitudes a plan. ~ Elizabeth Edwards on someone's health care plan

[Ivan Seeking]

Robin Wright: I have covered six wars in the Middle East...

Stephen Colbert: Which one did you like best?

[qspeechc]

Ok, not to sound, er, insulting? but american politics? C'mon.... So much for 'favourite quotes'...

[vincentm]

Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book one of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series), p 50

[Vosh]

If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they'll kill you. -G.B. Shaw

[Astronuc]

"Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth"

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/157

Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity.

http://www.acumenfund.org/

[Ivan Seeking]

I had to laugh when I saw a uniquely British protest sign:

"Make Tea Not War"

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I had to laugh when I saw a uniquely British protest sign:

"Make Tea Not War"

Wise words, unless China is involved, or the US, ungrateful cads. That was no party! Jeez it wasn't the rebellion, it was all that tea gone to waste, now steady on! :wink::smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

Is it true that the French make better tea than the Brits?

[Ivan Seeking]

The Pope's jet has the call sign "Shepherd 1" :rolleyes:

[Alienjoey]

"Is there intelligent life on Earth?" -- Frank Drake, founder of SETI.

[Moridin]

"It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions." - Sam Harris, The End of Faith.

"Philosophical theology is intellectual tennis without a net" - Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea.

"Cheetahs give every indication of being superbly designed for something, and it should be easy enough to reverse-engineer them and work out their utility function. They appear to be well-designed to kill antelopes. The teeth, claws, eyes, nose, leg muscles, backbone and brain of a cheetah are all precisely what we should expect if God's purpose in designing cheetahs was to maximize deaths among antelopes. Conversely, if we reverse-engineer an antelope we find equally impressive evidence of design for precisely the opposite end: the survival of antelopes and starvation among cheetahs. It is as though cheetahs had been designed by one deity and antelopes by a rival deity. Alternatively, if there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? Is he trying to avoid overpopulation in the mammals of Africa? Is He maneuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

[...]

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. It must be so. If there is ever a time of plenty. this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference." - Richard Dawkins

"Mathematics is a religion" - Kent Hovid (excellent example of creationist 'logic')

[SpitfireAce]

that third quote sounds like it's making a case for polytheism =), and I think it contradicts the fourth quote

[Astronuc]

"True friends are those, who when you make of fool of yourself, do not think that it is a permanent condition" - Irwin T. Randall

I wonder how many friends he had?

[LightbulbSun]

love maynard's lyrics :smile: and Robin Williams is one of the most brilliant comedians ever.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ~
Lily Tomlin

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy

Maynard is pretty good when he doesn't get on his high horse about Buddhism or some other new age concept.


"Drugs are a crutch for people who can't cope with reality." -Me

[Poop-Loops]

"Drugs are a crutch for people who can't cope with reality." -Me

I'm tired, so I'm not sure if you're doing this on purpose, but you DO realize that her quote was a deliberate play on that exact quote you "came up with", right? That's the usual quote, and she made a funny out of it.

[LightbulbSun]

I'm tired, so I'm not sure if you're doing this on purpose, but you DO realize that her quote was a deliberate play on that exact quote you "came up with", right? That's the usual quote, and she made a funny out of it.

And I made a deliberate play on hers.

[moe darklight]

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~
Lily Tomlin

"Drugs are a crutch for people who can't cope with reality." -Me

I'm tired, so I'm not sure if you're doing this on purpose, but you DO realize that her quote was a deliberate play on that exact quote you "came up with", right? That's the usual quote, and she made a funny out of it.

And I made a deliberate play on hers.

"Crutches are people for people who really can't cope with drugs." — Me

there. settled?

[Ivan Seeking]

Polls from last week in Pa.

Amongst hunters, Clinton 56, Obama, 31.
Gun owners, Clinton, 53; Obama, 28.
Bowlers, 54-to-33.
Beer drinkers, 44-to-44.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24226233/page/6/

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Is it true that the French make better tea than the Brits?

We've gone to war for less than that. That's the equivalent of me saying is it true that Americans are all fat and patriotic hidebound idiots. :rofl:

Steady on!

Only the Chinese make better tea than the English and that's theoretical.

[Ivan Seeking]

We've gone to war for less than that.

Yeah, we noticed! :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Clinging to anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die - Mitch Albom

[Astronuc]

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


In the case of George Bush, success is going from failure to failure while being totally oblivious.

[Schrodinger's Dog]

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


In the case of George Bush, success is going from failure to failure while being totally oblivious.

Well that's quotable in itself. :biggrin:

[Astronuc]

Concerning the US Presidential Election of 2008 -

The American electorate is faced with a trio running for office whose ability to self-destruct would be the envy of kamikaze pilots. - Bonnie Erbe, US News & World Report

[Ivan Seeking]

I started to realize that green jobs means blue jobs. Green technologies need welders, pipefitters, plumbers...

-- former steel worker living in the rust belt.

[Texag]

Sad that I havent seen any Groucho Marx!

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. "

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. "

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. "

-Groucho Marx

[Ivan Seeking]

Sometimes silence is golden, and sometimes it is just yellow. - a local church sign.

[Ivan Seeking]

Eleanor Clift: Rupert Murdoch predicts a landslide this November.

Pat Buchanan: When was the last time that you quoted Rupert Murdoch?

[bassplayer142]

Money can't buy life. ~ Bob Marley spoken on his death bed to his son (Ziggy I think)

[Holocene]

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." - Thomas Jefferson, 1823.

[Ivan Seeking]

This is a five-hundred year flood plain. This isn't supposed to happen
- reporter standing in the flood waters in Iowa.

Technically, I think they have floods on 500 year flood plains about, oh, every 500 years?

We live just above a 500 year flood plain, and we have seen two floods in twenty years. My how time passes!

[force_air_1]

'Impossible is almost always not impossible'

[Ivan Seeking]

The future is ours, not to predict, but to create
- Al Gore

[Ivan Seeking]

Note quite a quote, but worthy of mention:

There was shock and awe when it was discovered that FEMA recently gave away to other groups, $85 million in supplies intended for Katrina victims, when there was still a great need for the supplies! As CNN was running this story, they were showing some of the supplies. One of the items shown was a fire extinguisher.

Okay, it is perfectly reasonable, but the notion of handing out fire extinguishers to flood victims is too funny!

[Ivan Seeking]

Here are three things to remember about old age:

Never pass up a bathroom
Never waste a hard-on
Never trust a fart

Jack Nicholson - The Bucket List

[September]

" To dance as if nobody is watching you,
To love as if nobody has hurt you"

[Ivan Seeking]

We didn't think Dick would turn out this way
-Friends of Dick Cheney in Wyoming [according to the governer.]

[WardenOfTheMint]

'Walk softly but carry a big stick.' What does it mean?

[Ivan Seeking]

'Walk softly but carry a big stick.' What does it mean?

It is actually to "Speak softly", and it refers to Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy. It means ~ to act with caution and reserve, but be prepared to use extreme [military] force.

[Ivan Seeking]

Hitler was fun at parties and great with kids
- George Carlin

[GeorginaS]

I haven't read through this thread to see if this has been mentioned before. Wilde is astoundingly quotable in my world.

Either that wallpaper goes or I do.

Oscar Wilde, dying in a Paris bedroom

[Ivan Seeking]

'Free Tibet' flags made in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7370903.stm

[TheStatutoryApe]

" To dance as if nobody is watching you,
To love as if nobody has hurt you"

I remember this, and I liked it, but I can't remember where it's from.

[TheStatutoryApe]

http://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=8391955302

It seems there is alot of discussion on it's origins. Interesting. And now that I think about it I may have heard it in "The Fountain" but I'm still unsure.

[Astronuc]

I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. ... Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or your hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. Woodie Gurthrie

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/07/14

[neu]

"drink coke" - Coca-cola company

[Ivan Seeking]

The US consumes about 10,000 gallons of [crude] oil per second. - CNN report.

[Ivan Seeking]

Never cook bacon when you're naked - Ed Slott

[nbk]

An acrostic poem by Lewis Carroll...

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden dream
Life, what is it but a dream?

It was believed Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a girl name Alice Pleasance Liddell. If you take the first letter of every line to form words, it makes her name exactly. Though this poem was not a part of Alice in Wonderland. It was found at the end of Through the Looking-Glass... Never a doubt in my mind that Lewis Carroll was one of the best poets of all time.

[FrancisZ]

"Be ashamed to die, until you have won some victory for humanity"--Horace Mann

[Helios]

"Freedom of speech means you have the right to yell MOVIE in a crowded fire station." --Abbie Hoffman

[Oberst Villa]

"Our country doesn't need your fireworks. Or maybe you're making rockets for an attempt on the life of our leader ?"

Unknown NKVD interrogator, talking to Sergei Korolev in 1938. In 1957, Korolev became father of the Sputnik.

[Ivan Seeking]

"They are called missiles, not hittiles. That's why we shoot two of them"
--- F-15 Pilot

[Oberst Villa]

"They are called missiles, not hittiles. That's why we shoot two of them"
--- F-15 Pilot

:rofl:

Can't resist a little smartass remark: The British actually called one of them a "Hittile" (the Rapier , surface-to-air). Normal anti-aircraft missiles use a proximity fuse and a big-as-can-be warhead to bring an aircraft down even with a near miss. But the Rapier's designers (initially) equipped it only with an impact fuse and a small warhead, because they were so confident in its ability to actually HIT the target - hence the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapier_missile <= (I know that "Rapier_missile" makes it look as if I'm talking nonsense, but look at the page, the Mk1 was actually called "Hittile". Honestly ! :smile: )

[Andre]

I know that story too, Oberst, anyway, seen on another forum:

"You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary."
--- Abel Aganbegyan, economist, 1987


"I tend to disagree with that"
--- Zombie

[Ivan Seeking]

What do you have when you take the greed out of Wall Street?
...
...
Pavement
- Robert Reich, Former Sec of Labor [D]

[Astronuc]

To be with the one who cares for you,
who understands every fibre of your being,
and who would not abandon you in even the most desperate of circumstances,
that is the most precious relationship a person can have,
and it is a treasure to cherish.

Rephrased from a passage in Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

[Astronuc]

"When one teaches, two learn." Robert Half

"When one teaches others, one also learns" rephrased of a quote by David Lodge, and probably observed by K'ung Fu Tzu

[FrancisZ]

"Talkative tailors yarn on till the end of twine."--Anonymous.

[jimmy.neutron]

"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons!" - Vic Deakins (John Travolta) in Broken Arrow

[kasse]

Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church


Unknown

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours


Stephen Roberts

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend

Richard Jeni

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Epicurus

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes

Gene Roddenberry

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.

Carl Sagan

[Phrak]

"Mother, where are my shoes?" -A. Einstein

[Ivan Seeking]

"I don't lie awake at night worrying that I might lose. I lie awake worrying that I might win" - Barack Obama

[B. Elliott]

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
- Hunter S. Thompson

:rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Fair Trade:

"The Chinese sell us poison toys and tainted food, and we sell them toxic securities"
- Paul Krugman

[Ivan Seeking]

"The Dow is like riding a roller coaster, but you vomit your money" - Colbert

[LightbulbSun]

Bertrand Russell

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country."

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos."

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless."

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true."





Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit."

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

[DaveC426913]

...and all of those are your favourites? :uhh:

[LightbulbSun]

...and all of those are your favourites? :uhh:

Yes. It's hard to decide.

[Redbelly98]

3 quotes that go together, all from U.S. presidents:

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light”
-- George Washington

It is closer to the truth to believe nothing than to believe what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson (paraphrased)

"We know Saddam has these weapons."
-- George W. Bush

[Ivan Seeking]

"'Drill baby drill'? I don't like having my teeth drilled. And I don't like baby dentists!" - SNL

[Ivan Seeking]

"Party boobytrap" is a palindrome. - an observation by BobG

Palinode
noun: A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem

[turbo]

"The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me." Chris Buckley

[hagopbul]

you die hero ,or you live long enough to become the felon

or the venal

[Ivan Seeking]

On my block, a lot of people walk their dogs, and I always see them walking
along with their little poop bags, which to me is just the lowest function of
human life. If aliens are watching this through telescopes, they're gonna think
the dogs are the leaders. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a
poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume was in charge?
- Seinfeld

[Ivan Seeking]

You know, I played high school football for four years, and this is the first time that I've been on the field
---Sen. Lindsey Graham; speaking from a high school football field.

[Redbelly98]

"Party boobytrap" is a palindrome. - an observation by BobG


Excuse me. Did you say Palin-drome?

[OmCheeto]

We still don't believe in evolution....... Except in your case.
a christian acquaintance of mine

[Ivan Seeking]

The practice of registering dead people to vote:

"Representation without respiration" - Mayor Daley, of Chicago

[lisab]

a christian acquaintance of mine

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

[Ivan Seeking]

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

When I was about twenty years of age, I went through a real religious phase that included a revisitation of my Catholicism. Having never approached Catholicism as an adult, I went to a priest to discuss some of my concerns. Before the evening was over, he accused me of going there to trick him. :rofl:

I figured that if I managed to rattle a priest, at least they must be good questions. :biggrin:

[DaveC426913]

I went to a priest to discuss some of my concerns. Before the evening was over, he accused me of going there to trick him. :rofl:
This doesn't surprise me. Nothing personal to you but I'll bet a lot of non-practicing people go to priests with a hidden agenda - hidden even from themselves. They probably genuinely think they're there to be open-minded, but they end up arguing their own beliefs and "taking easy shots" at religion. Priests probably look like slow-moving captive targets for such discourse. I'll bet people get quite accusatory in fact.

I'm not suggesting you were doing this, but I imagine you're not the first person to walk into that priest's church with questions.

[rootX]

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

Mine said we all going to hell (including herself).

[OmCheeto]

Aren't Christian friends fun...One told me once that I'm going to be the kindest person in hell.

Do you remember what I said my brother said?


I've volunteered to go to hell, to comfort the suffering.


He's a devout atheist, much to the chagrin of my devout sister.
I was going to recommend to my brothers husband that he take up pastafarianism.
At least he'd be a deist.

[JasonRox]

All the naughty girls are in hell. All the virgins are in heaven.

Looks like I'm going to hell.

[NeoDevin]

I've gotta side with Jason on this one, it's a no brainer.

[Ivan Seeking]

US President Lyndon B Johnson was known to possess a forceful personality that helped him get what he wanted. One morning, being anxious to discuss some issue with a US Senator [IIRC], Johnson called him at home at 5 AM and asked what he was doing.

"Oh, nothing Mr. President. I was just lying here hoping that you would call", he responded.

[phyzmatix]

Don't do anything you can't undo unless you know what you can't do once you've done it.

Robin Hobb (quoted from one of her books)

[sigh]

"life is like a box of chocolates"
outa the movie forest gump

Funny how i dont seem to like chocolate at the mo...
(woop woop 1st post)

[Ivan Seeking]

"No matter what happens on November 4th, there won't be any black people at work on November 5th." - Chris Rock

[Ivan Seeking]

During Reagan's last day as President, Tim Russert asked him if it helped being an actor.
Reagan replied: "I dont think anyone could do this job if they weren't an actor".
-- as told by Paul Begala

[OmCheeto]

"No matter what happens on November 4th, there won't be any black people at work on November 5th." - Chris Rock

:rofl:

I'll put that on my vacation schedule calendar tomorrow.

Poor old 55 year old kid never takes a day off.........

Calvin! You get a day off!
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Please don't ixnay this post. Calvin will get a kick out of it. I hope. Tuesday of course will tell......

[Ivan Seeking]

JIM LEHRER: How do you read it, David, the Obama campaign?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, it has been a smoothly run campaign. The thing that strikes me about the campaign is how nice it is. I mean, they're not always accessible, especially with the candidate, but they are nice people.

MARK SHIELDS: They are nice.

DAVID BROOKS: When, in our business, you write something negative about a campaign, and you get a call often the next day, and they tell you you're a complete idiot.

With the Obama campaign, they'll call you up and they'll say, "You know, David, we love you. You're a great guy. We really respect your work. It's so sad that you're a complete idiot."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec08/sbelection_10-31.html

Another interesting one that I caught tonight. Apparently this is a common saying among [water impoverished] cattle ranchers in Montana.

Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting!

[flying fish]

"It IS a take-home test. Once I grade it and give it back, you can take it home"

- One of my Physics Professors.

"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs."

- Mitch Hedberg

[Ivan Seeking]

I am Joe the cellist - Yo-Yo Ma

[Ivan Seeking]

There is no Republican Party. It has been crushed.
- Ed Rollins; Republican political strategist

[OmCheeto]

“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”


My local radio stations response to Obama's xmas puppy comment.

[OmCheeto]

Vote for a Senator with convictions!


Norman Ornstein's slogan for Ted Stevens
C-Span
Live
7:44 am

[needlesstosay]

"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time" - Danny Vinyard off American History X

[Ivan Seeking]

The Obama family will soon move into a house built by slaves
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/06/subs/06_a04.html

[OmCheeto]

The Obama family will soon move into a house built by slaves
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/06/subs/06_a04.html


Barack Obama is proof that no matter how successful a black man you are, you still live in government housing.

Or should that go in the favorite/worst jokes section?

[Jimmy Snyder]

The Obama family will soon move into a house built by slaves
As a (public) servant.

[Ivan Seeking]

Jay Leno to Senator McCain: How are you sleeping this week?

McCain: I'm sleeping like a baby! I sleep two hours, then I wake up and cry; sleep two hours...

[Ivan Seeking]

When it is darkest, the stars shine brightly
- Jesse Jackson on Obama.

[dyosa]

A line of Gandalf Greyhem to Saruman the Wise in Lord of the Rings ' Tell me, when did Saruman abandon reason for madness?':tongue2:

[Ivan Seeking]

Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful
- Warren Buffett

[sigh]

Common sense is not so common.

[sigh]

A high IQ can never make up for a lack of commen sence.

[Ivan Seeking]

Twenty-five percent of those exonerated by DNA evidence had confessed to a crime that they did not commit
-Jami Floyd; Defense attorney

[DaveC426913]

In the spirit of Monty Python's "You are all individuals!", "(I'm not.)", I give you something that my friend said to me the other day, while we were moving a dresser of drawers:

"All the drawers are different sizes, except the last one." :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1936

[Jimmy Snyder]

I hope this hasn't already been posted.

Are we there yet?

[Ivan Seeking]

On the average, married men claim that about five hours are dedicated to sexual activities each week - thirty minutes of actual sex, and four hours and thirty minutes of begging. - a Jewish Rabbi [name unknown]

A Christian minister has been urging the married couples in his congregation to make love every night for a week. The Rabbi said that Jews would do this too, but it gets in the way of their suffering.

[Astronuc]

My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people in her head, flattered by my father's attention, confused and alone, trying to break out of the grip of her own parents' lives. The innocence she carried that day, waiting for my father, had been tinged with misconceptions, her own needs. But it was a guileless need, one without self-consciousness, and perhaps that's how any love begins, impulses and cloudy images that allow us to break across our solitude, and then, if we're lucky, are finally transformed into something firmer. Barack Obama reflecting on his mother in his book, "Dreams of My Father".

I find Obama to be exceptionally introspective as well as insightful.

[Eezekiel]

"great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
A.einstein

[neu]

Put it in the curry.

Spike Milligan et al

[Redbelly98]

I used to have a book of fake quotes, this was one of my favorites:

"And how did I do?"
-- Dan Quayle, election night 1992

[Astronuc]

We aren't the consumers of democracy, we are the proprietors, . . . . Raj Patel

I would have used the word stewards instead of proprietors, or both, as in

We are the proprietors and stewards of democracy.

[Quincy]

"I have no special talent. I was just passionately curious." -- Albert Einstein - the most modest quote I've ever heard in my life; no surprise, it's from Einstein.

[Ivan Seeking]

Welcome to my hanging
GW Bush






- at his portrait hanging.

[Astronuc]

What is family? Is it just a genetic chain, parents and offspring, people like me? Or is it a social construct, and economic unit, optimal for child rearing and divisions of labor? OR is it something else entirely: a store of shared memories, say? An ambit of love? A reach across the void?

I could list various possibilities. But I'd never arrived at a definite answer, aware early on that, given my circumstances, such an effort was bound to fail. Instead, I drew a series of circles around myself with borders that shifted as time passed and faced changed but that nevertheless offere the illusion of control. An inner circle, where love was constant and claims unquestioned. Then a second circle, a realm of negotiated love, commitments freely chosen. And then a circle for colleagues, acquaintances; the cheerful grey-haired lady who rang up groceries back in Chicago. Until the circle finally widened to embrace a nation or a race, or a particular moral course, and the commitments were no longer tied to a face or a name but were actually commitments I'd made to myself. Good book, which I highly recommend.

I'm now reading "The Audacity of Hope".

I think Obama is the right man for the job, particularly at this time. Seems he's already pissed off the far left. :biggrin:

[OmCheeto]

Good book, which I highly recommend.

I'm now reading "The Audacity of Hope".

I think Obama is the right man for the job, particularly at this time. Seems he's already pissed off the far left. :biggrin:


If he(Obama) just sits on his hands for the next four years, he'll do much better than G.W.

sorry.......
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but I really do hate GW
Hey!
I'm a Veteran!
I didn't spend 6 years of my life defending our right to free speech such that I couldn't say I hated my president at least once!
God let this be the last time.........

[Ivan Seeking]

Blagojevich gives idiots a bad name
- CNN panel discussion.

[Astronuc]

Obama on liberty and values

As its most elemental level, we understand our liberty in a negative sense. As a general rule we believe in the right to be left alone, and are suspicious of those - whether Big Brother or nosy neighbors - who want to meddle in our business. But we understand our libery in a positive sense as well, in the idea of opportunity and subsidiary values that help realize opportunity - all those homespun virtues that Benjamin Franklin first popularized in Poor Richard's Almanack and that have continued to inspire allegiance through successive generations. The values of self-reliance and self-improvement and risk-taking. The values of drive, discipline, temperance, and hard work. The values of thrift and personal responsibility.

These values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will - a confidence that through pluck and sweat and smarts, each of us can rise above the circumstance of our birth. But these values also express a broader confidence that so long as individual men and women are free to purusue their own interests, society as a whole will prosper. Our system of self-government and our free-market economy depend on the majority of individual Americans adhering to these values. The legitimacy of our government and our economy depend on the degree to which these values are rewarded, which is why the values of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination complement rather than imping on our liberty.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communial values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. We value the imperatives of family and the cors-generational obligations that family implies. We value community , the neighborliness that expresses itself through raising the barn or coaching the soccer team. We value patriotism and the obligations of citizenship, a sense of duty and sacrifice on behalf of our nation. We value a faith in something bigger than ourselves, whether that something expressess itself in formal religion or ethical precepts. And we value the constellation of behaviors that express our mutual regard for one another: honesty, fairness, humility, kindness, courtesy and compassion.

In every society (and in evey individual), these twin strands - the individualistic and the communal, autonomy and solidarity - are in tension, and it has been on of the blessings of America that the circumstances of our nation's birth allowed us to negotiate these tensions better than most. We did not have to go through any of the violent upheavals that Europe was forced to endure as it shed its fuedal past. Our passage was eased by teh sheer size of the continent, vast tracts of land and abundant resources that allowed new immigrants to continually remake themselves.

But we cannot avoid these tensions entirely. At times our values collide because in the hands of men each one is subject to distortion and excess. Self-reliance and independence can transform into selfishness and license, ambition into greed and a frantic desire to succeed at any cost. More than once in our history we've seen patriotism slide into jingoism, xenophobia, the stifling of dissent; we've seen faith calcify into self-righteousness, closed-mindedness, and cruelty toward others. Even the impulse toward charity can drift into a stifling parternalism, an unwillingness to acknowledge the ability of other to do for themselves.

When this happens - when liberty is cited in the defense of a company's decision to dump toxins in our rivers, or wehn our collective interest in building an upscale new mall is used to justify destruction of somebody's home - we depend on the strength of countervailing values to temper our judgement and hold such excesses in check.

Sometimes finding the right balance is relatively easy. We all agree, for instance, that society has a right to constrain individual freedom when it threatens to do harm to others. . . . .

More often, though, finding the right balance between our competing values id difficult. Tensions arise not because we have steered a wrong course, but simply because we live in a complex and contradictory world. . . . But I acknowledge that even the wisest president and most prudent Congress would struggle to balance the critical demands of our collective security against the equally compelling need to uphold civil liberties. . . . . His thoughts seem generally consistent with mine. I'd love to have a chat over a few beers with him some afternoon. :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

Here is a curveball for the right

Nothing will stamp out gay sex faster than gay marriage - a comment made by an unnamed person on CNN.

[Astronuc]

Shake the dust from you sandals: Disappointment without Cynicism
From Jacob's Shadow, by Rev. Herbert Anderson

Sometimes, we get trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of setbacks that turn life sour. The chief energy of the soul is not disappointment or sadness but pretense and cynicism.

Mix of paraphrase and quote from Jacob's Shadow:

When disappointments are not resolved, they fester and foster a negative attitude about life that tilts toward cynicism. If the personal return on our emotional investment in the company, one's marriage, one's social or collegial group, is not enough, the temptation is to withdraw, shutdown, declare it was a dumb idea in the first place, pledge not to do it again, and risk becoming cynical. When one concludes that nobody really cares, nothing matters, people cannot be trusted, change is not possible, and no matter how hard one tries, things are not likely to get better, then disappointment transforms into cynicism.

When one is disappointed or things don't go as intended or expected, let it go.

Once one has named the pain and grieved the loss, one needs to let go in order to dream again and move toward a new future.

It may not be easy to lose or let go, for "giving it up" seems like defeat. But "letting it go" or "giving it up" is the only healing option.

Disappointment will not go away on its own accord. One simply needs to grieve the loss and let it go, and renew the dreams and expectations of a better future.

[moe darklight]

Here is a curveball for the right

"Nothing will stamp out gay sex faster than gay marriage"

- a comment made by an unnamed person on CNN.

:rofl: I'm so stealing that.

*yoink!*

Here's one from some comedian I saw on TV:

A friend is someone who will help you move.
A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

[jobyts]

"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself." ―conservative columnist Kathleen Parker

[lonton]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

[Ivan Seeking]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

Translation?

[Ivan Seeking]

Luke: Alright, I'll try.

Yoda: NO! Do, or do not. There is no try.

[Math Jeans]

"Would you believe that this amazing sentence contains ninety two letters, one comma and a single question mark?"

-Not sure

[baywax]

The trick to money is having some.

Stuart Wilde

[Ivan Seeking]

Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất
Mẹ mua cho em con heo đất...í o í ò
Ngày hôm nay em vui lắm
Cầm heo trên tay em ngắm ...í ò í o
Làm sao cho heo mau lớn
làm sao cho heo mau lớn...í o í ò
Heo không đòi ăn cơm
Heo không đòi ăn cám
Heo chỉ cằn em bế trên tay ầu ơ
Em không thèm mua kem
Em không thèm Mua bánh
Em để dành cho heo
Em lì xì heo đất hai trăm mỗi ngày
Này heo ơi ngoan nhé í o
Này heo con ơi mau lớn í o .

That is a top hit quote in my native language at present

Mom bought for the children of pigs
Mom bought for the children of pigs at ... at
Today they very happy
Hold hands on the pig ... I view them in at
How big color for pork
how pork color at large ... at
Pig not require diner
Pork does not require food cám
Pig just baby on Western Europe where
I not buy ice cream
She not Buy cake
For children to pork
I lì xì pork land two hundred per day
This intelligent pig ơi at nhé
This piggy ơi color at large.

Got it. :uhh:

[Ivan Seeking]

Birds are like teenagers: They look for a place to eat; a place to hangout; a place to reproduce.

- aviation expert talking about birds

[Red Rum]

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

- Brendan Behan

[OmCheeto]

Mom bought for the children of pigs
Mom bought for the children of pigs at ... at
Today they very happy
Hold hands on the pig ... I view them in at
How big color for pork
how pork color at large ... at
Pig not require diner
Pork does not require food cám
Pig just baby on Western Europe where
I not buy ice cream
She not Buy cake
For children to pork
I lì xì pork land two hundred per day
This intelligent pig ơi at nhé
This piggy ơi color at large.

Got it. :uhh:

That makes about as much sense as something my mother used to say:


Die hexe mit die besenstiel
hott die kinder viel zu viel
viel zu viel ist ungesund
meine mutter ist schweinehund


translation:

The witch with the broomstick
hit the children much too much
much too much is unhealthy
my mother is a pigdog

hmmm.... I think the Vietnamese might be runners up in the oddball game, right behind the Germans.

I mean really. Who else dresses their kids up in leather just for the fun of it?

Actually, I think I still have my little pair of lederhosen. :redface:

[Ivan Seeking]

Actually, I think I still have my little pair of lederhosen. :redface:

Strange and disturbing images enter my mind! Too much information!!! :yuck:

[Red Rum]

Who else dresses their kids up in leather just for the fun of it?


The Swiss?

[baywax]

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)

(thought this fit with the wearing leather banter!)

edit:

Had to get this one on as well.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Same author.

[Ivan Seeking]

Just because you have the legal right to withhold information, doesn't mean you should... For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-establish.html
- Obama on his first day in office.

[OmCheeto]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-establish.html
- Obama on his first day in office.

Wow. It's no wonder the right wing was afraid of him: openness, pay freezes for the senior white house staff, public servants actually serving the public interest, tighter restrictions on lobbyists. I think I like my new president.

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
---- Thomas Jefferson

[Ivan Seeking]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

[Mit-chan]

Talk to the hand, 'cause the face is on vacation. :bugeye:

[DaveC426913]

"I'm getting downsized."
- DaveC426913 Jan 27 2009

Oh wait. That's not a favourite quote, that's just my day so far.

[Gokul43201]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"Priceless!

Did that really happen?

Edit: Looks like it did - skip to about 7 minutes in.

mbs8uw22DKM

[OmCheeto]

On The View today:
~
Joy Behar: I understand that you do a great Nixon impression
Blagojevich: [acknowledges with hesitation]... What do you want me to do?
Joy Behar: Say "I'm not a crook"

:rofl: O...M...G... :rofl:



Upon hearing that Blagojevich had said he had considered her for Obama's senate seat on Good Morning America:

If I had been watching from the treadmill, where I’m usually watching, I would have fallen off...

[Ivan Seeking]

Upon hearing that Blagojevich had said he had considered her for Obama's senate seat on Good Morning America:

I didn't realize that Obama had a senate seat on Good Morning America.

[Dadface]

A college professor is someone who talks in other peoples sleep......Bergen Evans
Eating food with a knife and fork is like making love through an interpreter....Anon
Obesity is a fat accompli.......................................... ...............Len Elliott

[baywax]

Author John Updike, dies today at 76.

"I am very prone to accept all that the scientists tell us, the truth of it, the authority of the efforts of all the men and woman spent trying to understand more about atoms and molecules. But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it. Carpe diem (seize the day), and tough luck.' "

[Ivan Seeking]

Question: Have you ever thought of running for President?
Dolly Parton: We've had enough boobs in the White House.

[Astronuc]

One of the cheapest forms of entertainment is watching other people.

Someone in the local region talking about local economics.

[Ivan Seeking]

~ If Rush [Limbaugh] wants Obama to fail, then he wants America to fail. So Rush and Bin Laden are on the same page. - Bill Maher

[Ivan Seeking]

~ It doesn't matter if it [the stimulus package] works. Economists, once we come out of this, will argue forever what did it; or this did it, or this did it... The Republicans opposed FDR to a man, and five decades later they finally came back in Congress.
- Sam Donaldson

[Ivan Seeking]

Obama vs Bush? The difference is like black and white.

[Red Rum]

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr

[WhoWee]

Has to be Chris Matthews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9Gbb6NSwM

[baywax]

"I love this country..."

(President Obama on Canada.)

[Astronuc]

From Time's Quote of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1882280,00.html

"These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner."

Senator JUDD GREGG, after an AP investigation found he had steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there

[turbo]

From Time's Quote of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1882280,00.html

"These earmarks do not benefit me in any way, shape, manner."

Senator JUDD GREGG, after an AP investigation found he had steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals thereYes. There are some pretty pricey properties on that old Pease base, and I'm sure he didn't get a dime for himself.

[Ivan Seeking]

... Republicans now are as close to irrelevant in Washington as we've been. We're kind of like eunuchs invited to a wild party at the Playboy mansion, you know. We get to watch, we have very detailed opinions about everything, but we're not participating...

Mike Murphy - Republican Strategist
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29453052/page/3/

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh Lord, give me sobriety, but not yet - the drunk's prayer.

[Ivan Seeking]

THE LEHMAN BROTHERS
GUIDE TO EXOTIC CREDIT DERIVATIVES
http://www.investinginbonds.com/assets/files/LehmanExoticCredDerivs.pdf

[Ivan Seeking]

Optimistic people are more like to recover their 401K investments than are pessimistic people.

Why? Studies show that optimistic people live longer. - CBS News report

[lisab]

Optimistic people are more like to recover their 401K investments than are pessimistic people.

Why? Studies show that optimistic people live longer. - CBS News report

Woo-Hoo!!!

[tux204]

"I have mountains and valleys and rivers and oceans of questions about that, but now is not the time."

[Ivan Seeking]

Woo-Hoo!!!

Optimism doesn't cost a dime
- Michael Bloomberg

[WhoWee]

Optimism doesn't cost a dime
- Michael Bloomberg

Unless you actually have a job...and voted for Obama...(opps, wait - you said "a dime" - my mistake).

[Brilliant!]

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

-- Ayn Rand

In fact, many of my favorite quotes can be found within the pages of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

[Ivan Seeking]

I don't know if the New Deal was responsible for ending the depression or not, but what I do remember is that after Roosevelt took action, people had enough food to eat - my father-in-law

[Brilliant!]

Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food.

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

[OmCheeto]

So, let him know that there was always food, the fact that people began to visit supermarkets during FDR's presidency was just a coincidence.

Coincidence? Or did FDR's father tell him about the French Revolution, and the consequences of people not having their brioche?

Hey! Wait a minute... This is quotesville. Why are we arguing politics?


for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always

which I always mangle into


Do not ask how anyone can be so, for the stupid will always be with us.

[Astronuc]

Let your father-in-law know that there were food surpluses during the Great Depression. In fact, there were food surpluses since World War I. Because of the war, farmers produced goods like you wouldn't believe. When the war ended, they continued to produce at the same level. As you could imagine, this drove many farmers out of business as prices went through the floor. During the Great Depression, awesome levels of production still existed, but high inflation meant that people couldn't afford it. It wasn't until the markets stabilized (which took longer because of interference from FDR's administration, the Congress, and the Fed) that people could afford to buy the food. Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

[Ivan Seeking]

Please provide evidence and citations to support one's conjectures.

Many farmers were driven out of business by drought and poor farming practices. See references on the "Dust Bowl".

What's more, this is not a thread for debate.

[Brilliant!]

I was only commenting on your quote like so many in this thread have done of others. My apologies for forgetting the standard emoticon :smile:

[Oscar Wilde]

From Martin Heidegger,

"The possible ranks higher than the actual"

And from Friedrich Nietzsche, and Master/Slave Morality

"All rare things for the rare"

[baywax]

More favorites:

"If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability".

Murray Gell-Mann

"A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability".

Earl Blumenauer

Couldn't resist this one:

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again".

B. F. Skinner (of the box)

[Ivan Seeking]

When people in other countries get mad, they have riots and protests. Here in the US, we send emails typed in capital letters. - John Stewart

[Wellesley]

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Something I wish our politicians would follow more....

[Redbelly98]

90% of the referees are great. And the other 10% ... do all our games.

Geno Auriemma
Head Coach, Univ. of Connecticut womens' basketaball

[IamWhatIam]

Thanks for great ones..Here are a few

Nobody is perfect. I am a Nobody, so I am Perfect!

Philosophy begins with wonder - Socratese

Luxury is artifical poverty,Contentment is natural wealth - Socratese

A signboard infront of an office- "We are a non-proft organization. We did not mean to be, but we Are"

A priest sees a robber in the night at his home. He decides to shoot the robber saying-- "I do not intend to kill thee, but thou art standing where I am about to shoot" :-)

[Ivan Seeking]

Nobody is perfect. I am a Nobody, so I am Perfect!

For at couple of moments at least, I seriously considered making that my new signature. :biggrin:

[Astronuc]

"But there is a wider set of issues: this financial crisis has gone to the heart of how you create a good economy and a good society.

"We believe in markets. We also know that our success as a market economy - and indeed the operation of the market itself - depends upon upholding values which the market alone cannot generate.

"Successful market economies need trust which can only be built through shared values.

"My values, the values of the country, celebrate hard work, effort, enterprise and responsible risk taking - qualities that markets need to ensure that the rewards that flow are seen to be fair." Gordon Brown urging global markets to abide by a system of "morals", including "responsible risk-taking" and a "work ethic".

[baywax]

"Giggity giggity goo".

Quagmire

[IamWhatIam]

For at couple of moments at least, I seriously considered making that my new signature. :biggrin:


:shy: LOL, yeah that was cool

Here are few more

"Math and alcohol do not mix, so don't drink and derive"

"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit"

‘The kind of humor I like is that which makes me smile for five seconds
and think for ten minutes.’


‘I just got the bill for my operation.Now I know why those guys wear masks.’

[IamWhatIam]

Excellent ! as always! :smile:

(That's the style I 'd like to hear)

:tongue2: I'm glad you liked'em

--Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they're going to heaven somehow make me glad that we're going in separate directions. :wink:

[Focus]

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
-John von Neumann

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith, it is something entirely dierent.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
-Robert Silensky

[jobyts]

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. - George Bernard Shaw

[Ivan Seeking]

It feels really great to work with an American president who wants to change the world
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy

[Ivan Seeking]

~ Some financial institutions have been compared to casinos, but that does a disservice to casinos! When you go to cash your chips in at a casino, they have the money to back them up. When you go to cash in a credit default swap, the money isn't there. - Fareed Zakaria

[Ivan Seeking]

There is nothing like a ballistic missile to take your mind off of Wall Street bonuses. - George Will

[Ivan Seeking]

When President Obama was elected, a Turkish paper reported that one county sacrificed 44 sheep in his honor.
- Jessica Yellin
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/06/ec.01.html

Never let it be said that Obama is soft on sheep.

[Astronuc]

Neutron Transport Equation (Boltzmann) :biggrin:

\frac{1}{v}\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial{t}}\,+\,\O mega\cdot\nabla\phi(r,E,\Omega,t)\,+\,\Sigma_t(r,E )\phi(r,E,\Omega,t)\,=\,\frac{1}{4\pi}S_f(r,E,t)\, +\,\\
\int_{\Omega'}\int_{E'}\Sigma_s(r,{E'\rightarrow{E }},\Omega'\rightarrow\Omega)\phi(r,E',\Omega',t)dE 'd\Omega'

The study of the neutron transport equation is a delicate blend of theoretical mathematics,
numerical methods and computational strategies describing the interaction of neutrons and nuclei. American Nuclear Society Reactor Physics Division [RPD]
http://rpd.ans.org/

[Dadface]

THINK

The above sign hung in the lab of Ernest Rutherford.Does it win the prize for the shortest quote?

[Jimmy Snyder]

THINK

The above sign hung in the lab of Ernest Rutherford.Does it win the prize for the shortest quote?
More famously at IBM under founder Thomas J.Watson.
Think (http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2024.html)
Ernest Ruthorford said:
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
Thinkexist (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we-haven-t-got-the-money-so-we-ve-got-to-think/408460.html)

As for short quotes, there is a story told sometimes of Oscar Wilde, sometimes of Victor Hugo, that the author sent a telegram to his publisher asking about the sales of a new book. The telegram consisted of just an question mark. In response the publisher replied that sales were enthusiastic in a telegram that consisted of just an exclamation point.

[Ivan Seeking]

Guns don't kill people, peanut butter does
- position of Congress, according to Mark Shields

[sas3]

Epicurus quote
Greek philosopher, BC 341-270

If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

[Ivan Seeking]

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. - unknown

[Ivan Seeking]

If you prick me, do I not...leak?
- Data

[NeoDevin]

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not real, he becomes furious when they are disputed.
A brilliant man.

[Ivan Seeking]

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell,

[NeoDevin]

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.-- Bertrand Russell,

Agreed.

[Ivan Seeking]

~ Now you understand that I have to charge you as much as I can. That way you know I'll still be here in twenty years if you need me.
- A roofing contractor making a bid for us

I had to laugh at that one. He wants me to think it is in my interest that he makes as much money as possible, from me. :rofl:

I think he gets an A for creativity!

[Astronuc]

And what if the Hokey Pokey is really what it's all about? bumper sticker

[Ivan Seeking]

And what if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?

For many years it was, but ever since I hit middle age...

[Ivan Seeking]

In order to protest wasteful spending, TEA party activists purchased a million tea bags.
- John Stewart

[DuncanM]

" . . . I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: ..."

-- Thomas Jefferson

[baywax]

"I don't even know what street Canada is on".
- Al Capone

[hagopbul]

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.
V for Vendetta (comics)

V: Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

v for vendetta (film)

Remember, Remember
The fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

v for vendetta (film)

[Astronuc]

This may have been posted before, perhaps in some form.

Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Today's Message of the Day is:

Life is short,
Break the rules,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
And never regret anything that made you smile.

Life may not to be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we should dance! Anonymous

[Ivan Seeking]

"We're also actively monitoring travelers at our land, sea, and air ports. We're watching them for signs of illness, and we have appropriate protocols in place to deal with those who are sick. Anyone exhibiting symptoms is being referred to an isolation room where they can be evaluated by a public health official before proceeding to their destruction."
- a whoops by the dhs

[Ivan Seeking]

The oil and natural gas industries will create well-paying jobs
- from a commercial for the oil and natural gas industries

[Oscar Wilde]

A quote with no politcal undertones:

"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men"

From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Wonka himself has many brilliant one-liners

[Ivan Seeking]

Most human beings associate sex with love; except for men
- Roseanne Barr

[Astronuc]

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
Dust tracks on a road, 1942
Zora Neale Hurston

http://www.zoranealehurston.com/

The quote is care of Mae Jemison in her TED talk care of Cyrus in his TED thread.
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[Ivan Seeking]

During my second one-hundered days in office, we will design, build, and commemorate a library dedicated to my first one-hundred days in office
- Barack Obama

[Ivan Seeking]

I thought this was a classic bit of double-talk from President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.


MR. GREGORY: ... But I wonder why you're continuing to add to your stockpile, add to your arsenal at what is described as a pretty fast rate when there's so much instability in the country?

MR. ZARDARI: That's, that's, that's not a fact. It's a, it's a position that some people have taken. We, we're not adding to our stockpile as such. Why do we need more?

MR. GREGORY: So you're not adding to your nuclear arsenal at all?

MR. ZARDARI: I don't think so, no.

MR. GREGORY: You don't--do you know?

MR. ZARDARI: Even if I did, I wasn't going to tell you.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30658135//

[DaveC426913]

I thought this was a classic bit of double-talk from President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.
You sure that wasn't Peter Sellers talking to the Russian President (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)? :biggrin:

[Ivan Seeking]

You sure that wasn't Peter Sellers talking to the Russian President (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)? :biggrin:

CHENEY: If we had been about torture, we wouldn't have wasted our time going to the Justice Department.

SCHIEFFER: How much did President Bush know specifically about the methods that were being used? We know that you-- and you have said-- that you approved this...

CHENEY: Right.

SCHIEFFER: ... somewhere down the line. Did President Bush know everything you knew?

CHENEY: I certainly, yes, have every reason to believe he knew -- he knew a great deal about the program. He basically authorized it. I mean, this was a presidential-level decision. And the decision went to the president. He signed off on it...
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_051009.pdf

I thought that was an interesting moment.

[Astronuc]

In the end, the government's job -- it seems to me -- in any country, is to make sure the economy works in the interest of the majority and not the minority. And it's to make sure that if people have aspirations and abilities and aptitudes, they're given the opportunity to realize their own aspirations to progress. Alan Milburn, MP, UK

[Ivan Seeking]

What's a newspaper? Never mind; I'll go online and look it up.
- CNN Viewer; The Cafferty File

[Ivan Seeking]

...PAUL SOLMAN: Andrews applied for, and got, a no-ratio loan, in which his $2,500 monthly payments would consume nearly all his take-home pay.

No-ratio?

EDMUND ANDREWS: A no-ratio mortgage in which literally I left the income space blank.

PAUL SOLMAN: Therefore, there would be no ratio.

EDMUND ANDREWS: Correct, yes, because there was an issue of my debt-to-income ratio. But if you don't have any income that you're declaring, you have no debt-to-income ratio. Problem solved. Even at the time, I'm going, "I can't believe this. Is this a great country or what?"...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june09/andrews_05-21.html

[Astronuc]

Economists have yet to figure out what combination of mass delusion and perverse incentives led banks to undertake so much leverage. N. GREGORY MANKIW from

Economic View - NYTimes
That Freshman Course Won’t Be Quite the Same
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/business/economy/24view.html


Interesting term he used for what banks and financial institutions do - financial intermediation.

[Ivan Seeking]

I wish people could live for hundreds of years. That way they would have to live with the consequences of their actions. The problem with the world is that everyone dies too soon.
- not sure who said it. It was a comment made on a show about the science of aging.

[Ivan Seeking]

Paraphrasing here:

As Catholic Father Alberto Cutie' announced that he was leaving the Catholic church, and joining the Epoiscopal Church, the news conference was interrupted by a lightning storm.
- CNN

[misgfool]

At the bus stop:

"If one could make a difference by voting, it would be illegal."

[Astronuc]

but, life is a process...

Ideals are never reached, but they give us a standard and a direction to guide our fumbling steps.

Democracy is based on respect. Not on respect for leaders, or flags, or classes, but for EACH OTHER. The whole basis of democracy is that all are equal and all are worthy. It has no meaning without that foundation.

And democracy REQUIRES an informed citizenry and open communication, or it cannot exist.

To communicate requires respect for the views of all.... Not necessarily agreement, but an openess.

yale - a friend

[Ivan Seeking]

No matter how high-tech an application may be, never leave home without duct tape
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

[DaveC426913]

Revenge is a dish best served upside the head.
- Mrs. DaveC426913, June 17, 2009

[lisab]

- Mrs. DaveC426913, June 17, 2009

:rofl:

She'd be a great PF sister!

[baywax]

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to
stay home and dye my eyebrows".

Andy Warhol

[Ivan Seeking]

In regards to the accusation that Obama is in bed with the press...

“A few nights ago, I was up tossing and turning trying to figure exactly what to say. Finally, when I couldn’t get back to sleep, I rolled over and asked (NBC News anchor) Brian Williams what he thought,”
- Barack Obama

[Ivan Seeking]

Another Obamaism. What can I say? The guy is funny.

From a While House press conference.

Q Then I have a two-part question. (Laughter.) Is the public plan non-negotiable? And while I appreciate your Spock-like language about the logic of the health care plan... [half a paragraph follows]

THE PRESIDENT: I got you. You're pitching, I'm catching. I got the question. First of all, was the reference to Spock -- is that a crack on my ears? (Laughter.) All right, I just want to make sure. No?

Q I would never make fun of your ears, sir. (Laughter.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Conference-by-the-President-6-23-09/

[qntty]

"A witty saying proves nothing."
--Voltaire

[Ivan Seeking]

I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London
- Mort Sahl's name for the movie about Wernher von Braun, I Aim For The Stars.
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/news/cmcmagazine/2008winter/mort_sahl.pdf

[Astronuc]

That’s the art of it, creating these beautiful little poems of thought, these sonnets of pure reason. Mathematician and math teacher Paul Lockhart on the art of mathematics.

[OmCheeto]

Another Obamaism. What can I say? The guy is funny.


That was the first news conference I've ever read.

I thought it was funny that it was mentioned that the reporters ask him about his smoking at least once a month.

The topic came up at our local smoking hot spot at work about a month after he was elected. One of the Russian emigre's made a comment about the topic:


I think it would be very very bad to tell the man with the biggest red button on the planet that he cannot have a cigarette when he is having a, how do you say it, a bad moment. I mean, it would be very very stupid.

[DaveC426913]

I think it would be very very bad to tell the man with the biggest red button on the planet that he cannot have a cigarette when he is having a, how do you say it, a bad moment. I mean, it would be very very stupid.:biggrin:

Does that Red button say 'EASY' on it?

[OmCheeto]

:biggrin:

Does that Red button say 'EASY' on it?

:rofl:

Nyet!

http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Staples/s0105150_sc7?$sku$

It says "Matra of all Tzar bombas, ne ja jeba Kim Jung............"

Ooops! Now I'm trying to quote mommy dearest in the worst broken Russo-Serbian I've ever uttered:

Don't foop with me fella's!

[Sorry!]

'life isn't fair, its just fairer than death.'

love this quote :D I forget who it was though

[bucher]

Dr. Seuss ones are my favorite:

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

"I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you"

I'm sure there's more.

[jobyts]

“Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use to first, shrink wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury” - Arundhati Roy

[Borek]

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry

[Ivan Seeking]

Semper ubi sub ubi

[DaveC426913]

Semper ubi sub ubi

This is the only thing Mrs. DB uses from her Latin class days!

[Ivan Seeking]

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov

[Ivan Seeking]

I want a genetically engineered cow that can... [poop] Happy Meals
- Jon Stewart

[baywax]

"erm"

someone on PF

[baywax]

"Wish you were beer"

One of Bart Simpson's T-shirts

[Ivan Seeking]

The Hindenburg had a smoking room. There were little cups filled with water for the ashes. A crew member was assigned to be sure that not one ash fell on the floor - Antiques Roadshow

[Ivan Seeking]

If you go to a bar filled with archeologists, you might see a knock-down drag-out fight about whether one should us a triangular trowel, or a square trowel, at acheological dig sites. - The Time Team

[jobyts]

They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.
- Bill Maher

[colonelcrayon]

10^50 is a long way from infinity.
- Daniel Shanks

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
- Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
- Larry Wall

Now if you had a milkshake and I had a milkshake and I had a straw, you see watch it. My straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!
- Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)

What I cannot create, I do not understand.
- Richard Feynman

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
- Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)

But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.
- Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22)

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
- Catch-22

I will tell you what I am talking about," he said. "Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it's your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.
Now what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the you so that you won't abuse it.
- Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)

You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes.
- Najavo proverb

And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
- Milton (Office Space)

[Ivan Seeking]

Why don't they make Band-Aids for black people?
- Colbert

It never even occured to me before! He also pointed out that "flesh" colored crayons are really "caucasion" colored.

[turbo]

I have seen lots of flesh (as opposed to skin). Surprisingly, there is no discernible difference across races and species.

[Ivan Seeking]

Whoops! Good point. But the color of the crayon was still that of "typical" caucasian skin.

[turbo]

I must confess that I have never butchered a human (It's true!!), but once you get past the obvious gross differences, most mammals are pretty easy to figure out as you take them apart, and muscle tissue fed oxidants via hemoglobin looks pretty darned similar on fine scales, no matter where it came from.








(tastes like chicken)

[Ivan Seeking]

I must confess that I have never butchered a human (It's true!!)

That is nothing to be ashamed of...

(tastes like chicken)

On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.

Um, hey, are you gonna eat that?
- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena Bobbit

[turbo]

That is nothing to be ashamed of...



On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.


- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena BobbitOoh! that last one was a zinger.

[DaveC426913]

On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.


Also: the other other white meat.

[GeorginaS]

Um, hey, are you gonna eat that?

- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena Bobbit

I can't believe you said/wrote that.

[Borek]

I had to check Dehmer on wikipedia. Bobbit case was heard about even here.

[Ivan Seeking]

The manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel was rejected by eight publishers before finally being accepted. Only 1000 copies were printed on the first run with 500 copies destined for libraries. Each of those copies is now worth upwards of $50,000.
- Biography; The Harry Potter Kids

[Santa1]

You spend way too much time at the computer.
- Everyone around me.

[ideasrule]

"A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world" -- Arthur C. Clarke

This nicely captures the spirit of scientific research.

[Redbelly98]

Here are a couple of fake quotes:

I'm not a knowledgeable person, but I play one on TV.
-- Alex Trabek

That's too bad. And how did I do?
-- Dan Quayle, election night 1992

[Ivan Seeking]

Imagine Jesus on Twitter

Today we will read the Tweet according to Luke.

[Ivan Seeking]

Economic forecasting makes weather forecasting look like physics
- Ben Bernanke

[baywax]

There are no experts on China.

Dr. Romie F. Littrell

[Ivan Seeking]

A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom
- Dan Rather

[Ivan Seeking]

The best [most effective] way to reduce your carbon footprint is to not reproduce
- the latest study released by the EPA [~today]

[Ivan Seeking]

Journalist Cokie Roberts, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, commenting on the people who are intentionally disrupting town hall meetings with lies and false accusations about health care reform:

Roberts: We need more nuns.

Stephanopoulos: Why nuns?

Roberts: No one raised by nuns would act like that.

[Ivan Seeking]

Shhhhhhhhhh. Don't tell Obama what comes after "trillions"
- a buddy :rofl:

[jobyts]

Ted Kennedy's last words - "I killed Mary Jo."

someone's comment on cnn news.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/04/book-ted-kennedys-last-words/#comments

[Astronuc]

A week before he was killed during a commando raid that freed his colleague, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, from Taliban captors, the Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi wrote a post for the Times’s “At War” blog. His conclusion:
Being a journalist is not enough; it will not solve the problems of Afghanistan. I want to work for the education of the country, because the majority of people are illiterate. That is the main problem facing many Afghans. I am really committed to come back and work for my country. Ref: http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/sultan_munadi_rip.php

http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2341757

[Gad]

speaking of learning a new language,

an inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

- David Hare

:biggrin: I like it

[baywax]

"History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes".
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

[Astronuc]

I believe every educated person should study physics. Why? Because it is interesting – the natural world is a remarkable and fascinating place; because it is liberating – the universe is not arbitrary, but rational and comprehensible; and because physics is unequivocally the most powerful and profound system of thought ever devised. Perhaps, after all, I do agree with my parents. My purpose is to teach students how to think, by exposing them to the most brilliant and successful example of human thought: physics. David Griffiths in Illuminating physics for students, PhysicWorld, Sept 2, 2009
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/40214

[CFDFEAGURU]

"You'd think I could predict the future" - my father.

and

"It ain't wrong but this will make it right" - not sure.

and from Point Break

"This the guy? Yeah. Ohh so this is where you tell me how locals rule and yuppie insects like me shouldn't be surfing the break and all that. Nope. That would be a waste of time. Were just going to f*** you up. Ohh."


Thanks
Matt

[baywax]

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,
but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Mark Twain

[Borek]

"Well educated person should know everything about something, and something about everything."

Sławomir Kalembka, Polish historian (died today)

[check_itjess]

hi newbie here...

"when there is great love there are always miracles" i just got this from a song hits...i know don't know who wrote this but i liked this quote...this one is one of my favorite quote.

_______________
database design (http://www.checkitout.co.uk/)

[rootX]

Wow, youtube has an infinite supply of retards.


a youtube video comment

[DanP]

Do you have any motto or words to live by ? What are your favorites ? Drop a few of them in this thread !

Ill start with three of them.

1. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 )

2. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

3. "The only easy day was yesterday"
Attributed to US Navy Seals.

The first two are expressions of my beliefs that humans should constantly step outside their comfort zone.

The last one, I find it very reassuring and comforting , in a twisted and perverted way.

[brewnog]

If in doubt,
Mek it stout,
Out o' stuff tha knows about.

[Relay]

If I could, I would. Since I can't, I won't. That's logic!
-don't remember where I read it

Oh would some power the gifty give us.
To see ourselves as others see us.
It would from many a blunder free us.
-author unknown

"Flying is easy. All you do is throw yourself at the ground and miss."
-Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy

[mollymae]

"If I seem insensitive to what you're going through, Captain, understand – it's the way I am." - Spock

[rootX]

Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people.

[Jasongreat]

As soon as you feel secure, you are no longer safe.

Benjiman Franklin

[TheStatutoryApe]

I don't remember quotes from books very well so I often have lines from songs as my favourite quotes. For some reason, even though I am not religious, I tend to like quotes about god and angels and such, as you may note from my current sig.

"And when ya get ta heaven may the Devil be yer judge." Another Bag of Bricks by Flogging Molly

That may not seem so much like a motto but I like to interpret it as saying that you should not live as though you will be forgiven for your 'sins'.

[Reshma]

"Expect the worst from others, and you will never be disappointed." - Rat, Pearls before Swine

[Loren Booda]

Love thy neighbor.

[Kronos5253]

"Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you." - Don't do anything you wouldn't want done to you!!

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius



And of course...

"Physics and law enforcement: If it wern't for those two, I'd be unstoppable!"

[Astronuc]

There are already many influential words or comments in Favorite Quotes (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=23681)

[Jasongreat]

I might not agree with what you say[do], but I will fight to the death for your right to do so.

Voltaire


Everyone is equal, they have the equal right to tell their neighbors what to do, and that is none.

John Locke

[Stratosphere]

Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people.

What about sociologists?

[Vincit]

'Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.'

[Vincit]

'Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.'

[hypatia]

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

[Math Is Hard]

"No soup for you."

[petm1]

I am as young now as I will ever be.

[Dr Transport]

"Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you." -


The business golden rules:

Do unto others before they do it to you.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

[ideasrule]

"I'll be in my panic room."

Whether it's a good idea to be constantly panicking is, of course, debatable.

[Jasongreat]

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

You cant go around building a better world for people, only people can build a better world for people, otherwise its just a cage

Terry Pratchett

[-DB]

"Experience is something you don't get until after you could have used it." (not sure where I heard that one first)

"If you never make any mistakes, then you're probably not even doing anything." (my undergraduate research adviser when I was being too hard on myself)

[Blenton]

"It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose."

[Norman]

"F*** it, man. Let's go bowling." -Walter Sobchak (reminds me sometimes things are a lost cause and to cut your losses)

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (the quote I try to live by every day.)

[xxChrisxx]

If in doubt,
Mek it stout,
Out o' stuff tha knows about.

Wonderful northen wisom.

[dilletante]

"Be prepared" -- the scout motto.

[anubis01]

"There is no shame in falling. There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again."

[Topher925]

"Never let your schooling interfere with your education." - I think this was Mark Twain

[Galteeth]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
.

I know this dude who took some mushrooms, drank some alcohol, and decided to do some rock climbing without gear. He fell and he's in a wheelchair now. On the plus side(?), he gets checks from the guy whose property he was trespassing on.

I'm pretty sure he finds the decision to do something in this instance more disappointing then things he decided not to do.

[DanP]

I'm pretty sure he finds the decision to do something in this instance more disappointing then things he decided not to do.


I would argue that his capacity to take any decision was drastically altered by whatever drugs he took . Anyway .... some ppl don't choose to sit in a wheel-chair even when paralyzed :

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/274149

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1433303

Karen Drake, paralyzed as a result of a climbing accident taking on El Capitan in Yosemite

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=543

(Some) Humans have a strong will to dominate, conquer and govern. Frankly, I dont see this women as regretting the climb which left her paralyzed. You cannot regret the very things which define what you are.

[dreiter]

"With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?" - Ishmael

"The secret to happiness is to find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it." - Dan Dennett

"From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity." - Edvard Munch

[Jame]

When I feel nervous I think of Bob Dylan singing that "Even the president of the United States sometimes has to stand naked".

Henry David Thoreau has got too many, but this one inspired me more than most others:

"A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

[Jame]

I know this dude who took some mushrooms, drank some alcohol, and decided to do some rock climbing without gear. He fell and he's in a wheelchair now. On the plus side(?), he gets checks from the guy whose property he was trespassing on.

I'm pretty sure he finds the decision to do something in this instance more disappointing then things he decided not to do.
If I was the property owner I'd be very tempted to make sure your friend's state was changed to something more peaceful than being in a wheel chair.

[Ivan Seeking]

Dying would wreck my image
Jack LaLanne

He really is an amazing guy. At 95 he was healthy enough for heart surgery!
http://www.popeater.com/2009/12/16/tv-fitness-icon-jack-lalanne-95-has-heart-surgery/

Very strange aside: I once saw someone in Jack's sports car spin out [safely] on the 101 Hwy in California, right in front of me. I don't recall the play on words but he had a distinctive custom plate that had been in the news, which is how I knew it was his car. If it was Jack driving, then he was doing well over 100 mph at age 70+.

[Astronuc]

"Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos..."

--William Gaddis, "JR," 25

[qspeechc]

- An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

- I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

[ranger]

I like this (http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2506251&postcount=9) one:
The only difference between a genius and a lunatic is that the genius can turn off the voices when he needs to.

[Ivan Seeking]

During this holiday season, please remember not to drink and drive.

You might spill it!
- CNN viewer

[OmCheeto]

Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers

---bumper sticker I saw xmas eve

[Ivan Seeking]

[Do what I say] or I'm going to kill myself, and then her.
- Tom Cruise

[Ivan Seeking]

We talk about--and I think the governor's right, and Andrea and, and the speaker are right, it is the battle on the battlefield, but it's also the battle on the economic field. And what's missing here is a discussion, believe it or not, of the environment. And it has nothing to do with global warming down the road, it is today. We are transferring our wealth to countries around the world who don't agree with us and, in many cases, are funding the very terrorists that we're sending our young men and women out to fight. And sometimes they don't come back or they don't come back alive. And we can't keep doing this. We've got to get, somehow or other, energy independence. And so regardless of whether you're a greenie or not, the bottom line is we cannot keep funding our enemies.
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34591423/ns/meet_the_press/page/4/

[DeadWolfe]

"I don't believe in beliefs. I don't believe humans use beliefs to act. Beliefs serve some other purpose"

Nassim Taleb

[Ivan Seeking]

Jewelers rock!
- Tsu

[Borek]

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

Jennifer Yane

(but I have seen it attributed to Terry Pratchet)

[Conquer All]

"You can't win if you suck."

- Tom Ciccarone (fencing coach)

[DaveC426913]

"You can't win if you suck."

- Tom Ciccarone (fencing coach)

Alas, Paris Hilton is living proof that this is not true.

(No, there's no dirty-mindedness going on here; Paris sucks at everything she does, yet she is a celeb.)

[edpell]

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry Thoreau


I love that one.

[edpell]

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" Janis Joplin

[DaveC426913]

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" Janis Joplin

This made me think of this (for those of us who were introduced to Groening in his pre-Simpsons days):

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Which brought me to this:

Haven't you learned anything... We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?:biggrin:

[edpell]

from a post on page 50
A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom
- Dan Rather

Of course we are a constitutional republic and have never been a democracy. Representatives may be selected by popular vote but money has such a distorting influence I would not say we are free either.

[Ivan Seeking]

from a post on page 50
A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom
- Dan Rather

Of course we are a constitutional republic and have never been a democracy. Representatives may be selected by popular vote but money has such a distorting influence I would not say we are free either.

We are a democratic republic, or a representitive democracy, as opposed to a direct democracy. We do have a certain degree of direct democracy in local and State elections.

But this thread is for quotes and not personal complaints.

[Jimmy Snyder]

Paris sucks at everything she does, yet she is a celeb.
That's because she's good at it.

[edpell]

Alas, Paris Hilton is living proof that this is not true.

(No, there's no dirty-mindedness going on here; Paris sucks at everything she does, yet she is a celeb.)

"it's not what you know it's who you know" -- author unknown

[Ivan Seeking]

Security system salesman: You wouldn't want someone to come crashing through your door and violate you in your own kitchen, would you?

Gilda Radner: Well, that depends on who it is...

- SNL; season 1, episode 1.

[OmCheeto]

I have not met with the Obama task force. The reference to "laws of physics" applies to a conversation I had with several congressmen a number of years ago where they suggested we pass a new 2nd law of thermodynamics.

congressmen.... :rofl:

David E. Cole (http://www.cargroup.org/bod.html) is the Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research

[DaveC426913]

"it's not what you know it's who you know" -- author unknown

"It's not who you know, it's who you bl*w."

[Borek]

"It's not who you know, it's who you bl*w."

And not long ago you stated to not read you literally...

[Ivan Seeking]

Neurotics build castles in the sky
Psychotics live in them
Psychiatrists collect the rent
- The Lathe of Heaven

[Ivan Seeking]

Promote term limits for Congress. 2 terms: One in office, one in federal prison
- email

[Newai]

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar... *puts on shades* ...Wilde

[Ivan Seeking]

I spent a year reading everything Dostoyevsky had ever written. At the end of that year, I nearly committed suicide
- a friend

[Astronuc]

"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Imagine a world where we all got be be what we wanted when we grow up. What would a world filled with cowboys, fireman, nurses, and ballerinas, be like?

Why don't we have any special names for the top of our feet?

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you're sorry.

Have you ever actually seen anyone laughing all the way to the bank?

Wouldn't it be great if all of those people walking around New York talking to themselves, were paired up. That way it would look like they are talking with each other.
- Lily Tomlin

[Dembadon]

Common sense isn't very common.

-My father

[rewebster]

“If only.

Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

Mercedes Lackey


http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if-only-those-must-be-the-two-saddest-words-in/411761.html

[intp]

All quotes not by me, just too lazy to type the names and quotation marks. I fished them out of my journal. :) I hope it inspires you as it has helped inspire me.

When the World say's "give up," hope whispers "try it one more time."

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If its worth having, it is worth waiting for. If its worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If its worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

.. who at worst, if he fails, atleast he fails by daring greatly.

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its trouble. It empties today of it strength.

I wanted to become an Engineer more than I was afraid of math. (an undergraduate)

If you choose to push your limits you will be in good company.

The only difference between our secrets are whether we allow them to evolve into tales of heroism or fear.

[Garth]

Have you ever actually seen anyone laughing all the way to the bank? - Lily Tomlin

Yes - Bankers.

Garth

[xortan]

"information is not knowledge"
"its a good thing for the government that people are stupid" - Adolf Hitler
"its not that im smart i just stay with my problems longer" -Albert Einstien
"let the bridges i burn light my way"

[fourier jr]

What strikes one from the very first in Hilbert's works is the pure beauty of their imposing architecture; they do not give the impression of superficial "elegance," resulting from calculations cleverly carried out, but a much more profound aesthetic satisfaction, which flows from the perfect harmony between the end pursued and the means employed to achieve it. The latter are most often of a disconcerting simplicity; it is usually not a perfecting, however ingenious, of the methods that leads Hilbert to his great discoveries, but, on the contrary, a voluntary return to the beginning of the problem under consideration, and a freeing from the raw material, where no one had been able to see them, the fundamental principles which allowed him to take the "royal road" to the solution, vainly sought for until then.
- Jean Dieudonne

[MotoH]

I'm reading an electrodynamics textbook and in the preface there is a mention that the number of positive and negative charges in solid objects is extremely precisely balanced, and gives an example, that if there was an imbalance of even 1 part in 10^10, "a potato would explode violently".
How, exactly, would it explode?

Violently?

This made my weekend.

[KrisOhn]

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca

[Redbelly98]

One of my friends posted this on Facebook today:

"[I am] mourning the passing of a beautiful but apparently wrong idea."

[Borg]

One of my friends posted this on Facebook today:

"[I am] mourning the passing of a beautiful but apparently wrong idea."

I'm a fan of Facebook Quotes (http://failbooking.com/) also. :tongue:

[IMP]

You can either despair that the rose bush has thorns, or you can rejoice that the thorn bush has roses. ~ Anonymous

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
~ Vernon Sanders

It is better to keep ones mouth closed and appear an idiot, than open it and remove all doubt ~ Mark Twain

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. ~ G.K. Chesterton

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes twice as long to say than what it's short for. ~ Douglas Adams

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

If I knew what I was doing, it wouldn't be called research. ~ Albert Einstein

If we could get everyone in the world to close their eyes and imagine world peace for an hour, think about how serene it would be until the looting started. ~Unknown

'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have'. ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Americans grew tired of being thought dumb
by the rest of the world,
So we went to the polls and removed all doubt."

WISDOM - FROM MILITARY MANUALS:

'If the enemy is in range, so are you.'- Infantry Journal

'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed.- U.S. Air Force Manual

'Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered
automatic weapons.'- General Mac Arthur

'You, you, and you .. Panic. The rest of you, come with me.'- U.S. Marine
Corps Gunnery SGT.

'Tracers work both ways.'- U.S. Army Ordnance

'Five second fuses only last three seconds.'- Infantry Journal

'Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.'

'Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.' - Unknown Marine
Recruit

'If you see a bomb technician running, follow him.'- USAF Ammo Troop

'Though I fly through the Valley of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am
at 80,000 feet and climbing.'

'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'- Paul F.
Crickmore (test pilot)

'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'

'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a
helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'

'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough
power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'

'What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a
pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up... The pilot dies.'

The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are:
'Why is it doing that?', 'Where are we?' And 'Oh S...!'

'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully
complete the flight.'

'Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!'

'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person
on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'

'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill
you.'- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)

'If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.'

'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power
to taxi to the terminal.'

[Andy]

"Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her "Edward". I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy her "Twilight" book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML"

No name united states

Is it bad to enjoy other peoples misery as much as i do?

[Astronuc]

It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else :rofl: A comment about Australia by Bill Bryson in his book 'A Sunburned Country'

He goes on to mention that the world's 10 most poisonous snakes are found in Australia (drop for drop that's probably accurate, but other poisonous snakes may make up in volume for what the venom lacks in lethality).

Also he mentions, "five of it's creatures - the funnel web spider, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, paralysis tick, and stonefish - are the most lethal of their type in the world."

Growing up, we never worried about such things. Most of those creatures are found along the northern coastal areas anyway.

[Ivan Seeking]

The older I get, the dumber I used to be
- me

I spontaneously popped off that one today and rather liked it.

[DaveC426913]

The older I get, the dumber I used to be
- me

I spontaneously popped off that one today and rather liked it.

Good one!

Goes along with:

Kids! Get away from your parents while you still know everything!

[GeorginaS]

The older I get, the dumber I used to be
- me

I spontaneously popped off that one today and rather liked it.



That's seriously excellent, Ivan.

IMP -- that's one terribly long list of favorites. Have you committed them all to memory?

[Astronuc]

My walking mates and I were pondering the federal and state debt, deficits, unemployment, looming state budget cuts, and potential layoffs.

One made the comment - "the government just needs to become more efficient at doing nothing." :rofl:

Pretty sad.

[lombardoja]

There is no substitute for a general lack of preparation

[MotoH]

"What aint no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?"

[ThomasEdison]

"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. "
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Evo]

We have two current threads on the same topic, I have merged them.

[Galteeth]

The older I get, the dumber I used to be
- me

I spontaneously popped off that one today and rather liked it.

Doesn't that imply that you're dumb now, from the perspective of your future self?

[Lancelot59]

"Practice makes perfect. Too much drives you nuts."
-Me

I said that a while back in high school.

[Ivan Seeking]

Doesn't that imply that you're dumb now, from the perspective of your future self?

Surely you don't mean to suggest that the learning never stops?

However, anyone who is familiar with Saturday Night Live's, Middle-Age Man, would know that we peak during our middle-age years. We are old enough to know how the world works and young enough to remember. :biggrin:

I tried to find a clip, but no luck.

[Lancelot59]

Two more quotes I like are:

Save trees, wipe your butt with an owl

and

Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!

[ƒ(x)]

"The things you take for granted are the most important" -anon

"Education never ends." -S.H.

[jobyts]

"We have two current threads on the same topic, I have merged them." - Evo

[Lancelot59]

"The things you take for granted are the most important"

Totally true.

[Char. Limit]

"Expect the worst from others, and you will never be disappointed." - Rat, Pearls before Swine

Quoted for truth. Those are words to live by.

[GRB 080319B]

"There is a growing sense that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the laws that govern information."

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24759/

[Ivan Seeking]

'Smoking killed me' [sign placed on hearse, grave]

He said before he died at age 85 in February that he wanted the sign to serve as a warning to young people about the dangers of tobacco smoking.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030300672.html

:rofl: Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, but the irony was too much.

[leroyjenkens]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030300672.html

:rofl: Sorry, I shouldn't laugh, but the irony was too much.

The smoking still killed him, regardless of how old he lived to be.

[Ivan Seeking]

The smoking still killed him, regardless of how old he lived to be.

That isn't clear by any means. The reports only stated that he smoked during his youth. The fact is that correlation does not imply causation; esp when it happened so many years ago. For example, my grandmother died of cirrhoris of the liver, but she never drank, and an aunt died from emphysema, but she never smoked.

[Borek]

Actually, if it takes smoking to live till 85, I am in. In my family men rarely live long past 60.

[Char. Limit]

Wow, talk about sending the wrong message. I thought only German fairy tales did that.

Seriously. So far I've learned from Der Froschkönig that violence will solve all of your problems and from Oh Wie Schön ist Panama that birds are smart.

[leroyjenkens]

That isn't clear by any means. The reports only stated that he smoked during his youth. The fact is that correlation does not imply causation; esp when it happened so many years ago. For example, my grandmother died of cirrhoris of the liver, but she never drank, and an aunt died from emphysema, but she never smoked.

Read under the picture:
The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery in Dover, England, Tuesday March 2, 2010, during a burial service, after he died in January aged 85 from the lung disease emphysema.

As for your grandmother and aunt, their diseases might be related. I looked at the Emphysema article at Wikipedia and under causes it says:
The primary cause of emphysema is the smoking of cigarettes. In some cases it maybe due to alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. Severe cases of A1AD may also develop cirrhosis of the liver, where the accumulated A1AT leads to a fibrotic reaction.
I just thought that was interesting.

[DaveC426913]

The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery.

Albert Whittamore blamed his youthful smoking habit for the lung disease.

These two sentences smack of contradiction. Technically, they do not contradict each other but it makes me wonder what the truth is.

[Kronos5253]

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence

[Char. Limit]

"Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
-Theodore Roosevelt

[OmCheeto]

Stop Global Whining

Saw it today for the first time.

I hate whining.

I had a hearty laugh.

[lisab]

Saw it today for the first time.

I hate whining.

I had a hearty laugh.

Ahahaha...I needed that, it's been a tough week :smile:.

[Ivan Seeking]

The only crime scene I've ever covered was the State legislature in Texas
- Bill Moyers [Journalist]

[Lisa!]

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop!

Gittel Hudnick

[Lisa!]

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Gahan Wilson

[magnusrobot12]

"We have two current threads on the same topic, I have merged them." - Evo

Oh Jobyts, you are so funny :rofl:

[magnusrobot12]

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

Arnold H. Glasow

[magnusrobot12]

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Abraham Lincoln

[Ivan Seeking]

It takes a village to raise a vampire
- a comment made about the evolution of myths; The Secret Life of Vampires; Biography Channel.

[Ivan Seeking]

Body parts found all over Northern California were found to be connected
- Local news report

[Char. Limit]

I just discovered one about steam ships. Seems that even though this new technology was to revolutionize the world, one of the most powerful and revolutionary men at the time didn't believe it.

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck!? I have no time for such nonsense!"

-Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I de France)

[Ivan Seeking]

Referencing Biden's gaffe about Health Care Reform
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/23/a-big-****ing-deal-bidens_n_509927.html

FDR gave us the New Deal, and Obama gave us the Big F'ing Deal.
- not sure of the source; likely Meet the Press, This Week, or The PBS News Hour.

[MotoH]

Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!

Some Shakespeare play.

[Lancelot59]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

[jobyts]

Defrocking pedophile priest would be detrimental to the "the good of the universal church" - Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985

[Ivan Seeking]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

Which he took from the Bhagavad Gita

[Char. Limit]

Which he took from the Bhagavad Gita

As they say...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

-A Plagiarizer

[GRB 080319B]

"You want to be like the angels? Well, here you go."

Said by Ivan Vasilyevich (Ivan the Terrible) to monks before detonating the powder kegs upon which they were forced to sit.

Quote from: Russia - Land Of The Tsars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyHoh2XSrs&feature=related) @ time 9:10

[DaveC426913]

As they say...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

-A Plagiarizer

Heh.

But all seriousness aside. I think most edumacated peoples know Oppie was deliberately quoting the original author.

[rootX]

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.” Vicki Baum quotes

Another related one:
“The best chance you have if you wanna rise to the top, is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing, and work hard. One thing you’ll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside you right from the beginning.“

[MotoH]

Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
- Door Gunner on Full Metal Jacket

I LOL every time I hear this

[Gad]

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.” Vicki Baum quotes

Another related one:
“The best chance you have if you wanna rise to the top, is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing, and work hard. One thing you’ll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside you right from the beginning.“

Though I haven't seen much of life yet, but I would say it's almost true...

[Borek]

Though I haven't seen much of life yet, but I would say it's almost true...

You mean - you are not yet famous, so you don't feel lonely?

[Gad]

You mean - you are not yet famous, so you don't feel lonely?

Put some green back Borek :biggrin:

[Borek]

I don't feel cheerful enough.

[Gad]

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Ivan Seeking]

...Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning

[imiyakawa]

Only dogs bark at what they do not understand

[fuzzyfelt]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

"Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle"

[Redbelly98]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
-- Jebediah Springfield

[Ivan Seeking]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

What?!?!

-- Jebediah Springfield

Who?

<Googles while mumbling wtf...> Oh!!! :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

Eyjafjallajökull; it sounds like something you would hear while playing a Beatles record backwards.
- Chad Myers, CNN

[MotoH]

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt.

[quickme]

to do is to be - socrates
to be is to do - descartes
do be do be do - sinatra

[Ivan Seeking]

Drill, baby, drill!
- Sarah Palin

[phyzmatix]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

~Terry Pratchett

[collinsmark]

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain

[Ivan Seeking]

Sunday, on This Week [of all shows! Not a good sign, course they've had Liz Cheney on before], Bill Maher was lambasting Obama for his prior support of offshore oil drilling. Hopefully he will flip-flop on this one, said Mahers, that's flip-flopping that I can believe in!

[Ivan Seeking]

We have two seasons: Rainy, and road construction.
- local news, KGW TV, Portland, Oregon

[rootX]

http://books.google.com/books?id=C47c-QG1dywC&lpg=PT113&ots=E140Myr4fo&dq=Ogyen%20Trinley%20Dorje%20%2C%20%22wealth%20can %20be%20a%20source%20of%20both%20happiness%20and%2 0misery%22&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false

I was reading above book today. I was surprised how generic and modern they were..
Some of my favorite ones:

Wealth can be a source of both happiness and misery. To accumulate wealth is fine so long as you know how to use it properly

Each of us has the right to our own opinion and views. But unless you want to be totally isolated, adjust your perspective from time to time so that you are in sync with the society around you. If you must have your own way all the time you will never be able to live in harmony with others

Assess a religion on the basis of its teachings. The deeds of its followers are a different matter; whether good or bad, they belong to individuals and not to the teachings. Don't mix the two

[OmCheeto]

http://books.google.com/books?id=C47c-QG1dywC&lpg=PT113&ots=E140Myr4fo&dq=Ogyen%20Trinley%20Dorje%20%2C%20%22wealth%20can %20be%20a%20source%20of%20both%20happiness%20and%2 0misery%22&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false

I was reading above book today. I was surprised how generic and modern they were..


????

The author is 24. Did you expect something else?

I liked the end of his intro. It was.


Even if you find nothing useful in this book, please do not be angry. You can always throw it away!


Wisdom knows no age.

http://home.europa.com/~garry/Buddii.jpg

[rootX]

????

The author is 24. Did you expect something else?

[/IMG]

Unless I am mistaken, he represents Buddhism in its present form. If that is true, this religion has evolved remarkably to meet with the needs of the current people. You would see similar tone in some material originally by Dalia Lama/Thich Nhat Hanh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh). They comfortably accept that you are not going to become part of their religion and neither try to be persuasive.

[Ivan Seeking]

People tell me that Facebook is a great place to network with old friends. In order for me [age 88] to network with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board
- Betty White, SNL

[valenluis]

I taste salty

Same here, LOL

[Char. Limit]

This thread will reach 100,000 views very soon.

-Character Limit

[Frame Dragger]

Not sure if I've posted these before.

"Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." - Alfred, Bruce Wayne's Butler

"The thing about Hash Cakes is this: Start off with one, wait about an hour see how you feel. Don't eat fifteen in one go, cause you will see the devil, and he'll try to rip your heart out through your kneecaps" (Naboo The Shaman aka The Croydon Mystic aka Michel Fielding)

“You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?”

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Summa pia gratia nostra conservando corpora et custodita, de gente fera Normannica nos libera, quae nostra vastat, Deus, regna."(St. Vaast or St. Medard)

"What's the difference between God and a surgeon? Answer: God knows that he's not a surgeon."

[czelaya]

From a movie I used to dislike but it's becoming one of my favorites:

"The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world!"

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

[Anticitizen]

'The only substitute for manners is fast reflexes.'

[Lancelot59]

'The only substitute for manners is fast reflexes.'
All too true.

[Borek]

In today's world five times more time and money is being invested in drugs for male virility and silicone implants for women, than in the cure of Alzheimer's disease ..
In a few years to come we’ll have grammas with large breasts and grandpas with hard ****s, but they won’t remember what it’s for.

Drauzio Varella, Brazilian oncologist

[EnumaElish]

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sherlock Holmes

[DaveC426913]

“You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?”

From a film with some of the most memorable quotes in moviedom (I've seen things you've never dreamed!), why do you see this one as quoteworthy ?

[Ivan Seeking]

The Irish have conquered the world through peaceful penetration
- my Irish friend

[Lancelot59]

I have a good one:

In a butter fight, there are no winners.

[Char. Limit]

Quote Combinations...

Never bring a sword to fight a land war in Asia with guns.

Make no sense!

[phyzmatix]

''I had a wonderful moment...when the radio went off as I was just waking up in my own bed at home.

''I heard, 'This morning, the Prime Minister will...' and I thought, 'Oh God, what's he doing now? And then I thought, 'Oh no, hang on a second - it's me!'''

~David Cameron

[DocMuffinZ]

“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.”

[IMP]

Probably a repeat, but still one of my favorites:

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein

[BobG]

I have a good one:

In a butter fight, there are no winners.

There's no winners in a contraceptive foam fight, either. Plus, the next morning, the kids are wandering around wondering what in the world happened to the house.

[Lancelot59]

There's no winners in a contraceptive foam fight, either. Plus, the next morning, the kids are wandering around wondering what in the world happened to the house.

How about this:

Kids in the back seat cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat cause kids.

[Ivan Seeking]

What do we call Glenn Beck fans, Becker-heads?
- Colbert

[FrancisZ]

"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb."

HoUpF7rvfnk

[Gad]

Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

Would not we shatter it to bits -- and then

Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!


Al- Khayyam. Translated by Edward J. Fitzgerald

[magpies]

Unknown -

Modern science hopes to bring immortality but
instead all it can bring is false hopes. The
reason for this is simple the goal of science
is to study and immortality requires one to
have mastered all that there is to study.

[Ivan Seeking]

Unknown -

And better left that way. What is your source for that quote? I realize that you don't know the original source, but where did you get it? It sounds like something a high school kid made up.

[Scribner]

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"

Carl Sagan

[phyzmatix]

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either, just f@ck off and leave me alone!"

~Maharishi Phucknuckle (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b378/matraklirahn/fun%20pics/clip_image002.jpg)

[IcedEcliptic]

"What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around...And sometimes you are what's coming around." - Jim Butcher

Алты́нного во́ра ве́шают, а полти́нного че́ствуют. Translation: One hangs the thief who stole altyn(3 kopecks), and honors the one who stole poltinnik(50 kopecks).

[IcedEcliptic]

A couple of additions:

"With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly."
(Tolkien)


Duke of Exeter. 'Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger. '

King of France. 'Or else what follows?'

Duke of Exeter. 'Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown 1000
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:'(Henry V act II)

On the lightest of all possible notes:

(Brian and Stewie are on a German tour bus.)
German Tour Guide: You vill find more on Germany's contributions to ze arts in ze pamphlets ve have provided.
Brian : Yeah, about your pamphlet... uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.
Tour guide: Everyone vas on vacation. On your left is Munich's first city hall, erected in 15...
Brian : Wait, what are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and...
Tour Guide: We were invited. Punch vas served. Check vit Poland.
Brian : You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
Tour guide: Nope, nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen.
Brian : A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
Tour guide: I vill hear no more insinuations about the German people. Nothing bad happened. Sie werden sich hinsetzen. Sie werden ruhig sein. Sie werden nicht beleidigen Deutschland. You will sit down. You will shut up. You will not insult Germany. (Throws his hand up in a Hitler salute.)
Brian : Uh, is that a beer hall?
Tour guide: (Snapping out of it) Oh yes, Munich is renowned for its historic beer halls.

[DanP]

"With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly."
(Tolkien)


"Instead of a Sith Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!"
- paraphrased Tolkien

[IcedEcliptic]

- paraphrased Tolkien

Heh, very good!

Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away!

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov

"And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the Human Race. Lost in time, and lost in space, and meaning." (RHPS)

"To reign over the kingdom of the world. To make its peace and write its laws. To be generous to the obedient and merciless to all those who would stand against you. Nothing ever changes. 2000 years and you still act as if the world is yours." (Alucard from Hellsing speaking to a Vatican envoy)

[qspeechc]

Wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that real life is in love, laughter and work - Elbert Hubbard

There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction - Salvador Dali

Fate seems to work with dice rather than a T-square - George Ade

Anyone can win, provided there's no second entry - George Ade

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing is best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting - e.e. cummings

[IcedEcliptic]

Wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that real life is in love, laughter and work - Elbert Hubbard

There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction - Salvador Dali

Fate seems to work with dice rather than a T-square - George Ade

Anyone can win, provided there's no second entry - George Ade

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing is best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting - e.e. cummings

Those are really good.

[collinsmark]

"It's fun to be a sucker, if you can afford it."
-Diamond Jim Brady

[jobyts]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" - US Constitution, 1st Ammendment

[Mu naught]

this whole thing, and Brando's performance just makes it perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUMvBL3gnY

[caljuice]

correlation doesn't imply causation

[Ivan Seeking]

"There is a new way to cuss people out down here [Louisiana]: BP you!"
- Ret. Lt. Gen. Honore

[Borg]

Spill Baby, Spill.

Nice one Ivan :tongue:.

[Ivan Seeking]

Bing is a great search engine. I know because I googled it.

It isn't the Gulf of Mexico anymore: We broke it, we own it.
- Colbert

[ViewsofMars]

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals , weather, and their own content." Paul Valery(1871-1945):smile:

I like that quote because earlier today I found that to be true to some degree as I thumbed through [B]HOW SUCCESS IS WON by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, D. Lothrop and Company, Boston, 1885, ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN ZOOLOGY by James G. Needham, M.S., American Book Company, 1896, and LONG LIFE AND HOW TO REACH IT by Joseph G. Richardson, M.D., P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1885.:smile:

I love old books. I love to collect them.:smile:

[jobyts]

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. - Rodney Dangerfield.

[Ivan Seeking]

In Arkansas, you give your location by the distance from the nearest Wal Mart
- CNN viewer from Arkansas

[ViewsofMars]

These are my favorites quotes today.:smile:

“From the foundations of science, to the limits of technology, to the very definition of the human condition, I think computation is destined to be the defining idea of our future.” Stephen Wolfram's 2010 TED Talk in Long Beach, California on Thursday, February 11, 2010.

Also, as a book bug (tee hee), I like this one too.

"Every language is undergoing, at all times, a slow but unceasing process of linguistic change." LANGUAGE by Leonard Bloomfield, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1933, Chapter 17, WRITTEN RECORDS, p.g. 231.

[Ivan Seeking]

As I'm sure you know, there aren't any walruses in the Gulf of Mexico and there have not been for three million years
- Rep Ed Markey

[Ivan Seeking]

Colbert responding to members of the rock band, Devo, who with tongue in cheek claim that we are devolving:

I don't believe in evolution, so I don't believe in devolution. I believe in intelligent decline.

[collinsmark]

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
-John Steinbeck

[n.karthick]

One of my favourite quotes
"Life without Danger is waste of oxygen"

[Lancelot59]

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
-John Steinbeck
That's a pretty good one. I knew something with a similar premise but it's escaping me right now.

I guess this works for now:

Note: If the help desk thinks your question is stupid you will be set you on fire.

[mynameinc]

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain

[Ivan Seeking]

From a friend who works in industry

I hate it when [our competition] spends more bribing their Senator than we do ours

[jobyts]

Cristiano Ronaldo: God sent me to earth to show people how to play football.

Lionel Messi: I never sent anybody!

[petm1]

“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride!’” ~Hunter S. Thompson

[Char. Limit]

Evolution is only a theory... you know, kind of like gravity.

Taken from a bumper sticker.

[TubbaBlubba]

Translated to the best of my ability...

My children, when you need to cry, cry as much as you want to.
But nothing will ever change if you only keep weeping.
When you are done, you must at once rise up again.

I've always liked this quote. It's better if you don't know where it comes from, I think.

[Astronuc]

“RESPONSIBILITY IS A UNIQUE CONCEPT"

“It can only reside and inhere in a single individual.
You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished.
You may delegate it, but it is still with you.
You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
Even if you do not recognize it or admit its presence, you cannot escape it.
If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance, or passing the blame
can shift the burden to someone else.
Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes
wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”

ADM H.G. RICKOVER

:approve:

[Astronuc]

"One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments
for opposing viewpoints as well as for their own. Open discussions and
disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue will be fully
explored. Further, important issues should be presented in writing. Nothing so
sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses
overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page."

ADM H.G. RICKOVER

This guy is great!

[DaveC426913]

"One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments
for opposing viewpoints as well as for their own. Open discussions and
disagreements must be encouraged, so that all sides of an issue will be fully
explored."

ADM H.G. RICKOVER

This guy is great!

So he is! That's my philosophy (more stereotypically, the Devil's Advocate.)

[collinsmark]

Precaution

I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.

-Robert Frost
....

[Astronuc]

I find that most true happiness comes from one’s inner life; from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation. And self-discipline. One must be honest with oneself, and that’s not easy. You have to have patience and understanding. . . .

But the reward of having an inner life, which no outside storm or evil turn of fortune can touch, is, it seems to me, a very great one. William L. Shirer

Foreign correspondent William L. Shirer wrote the acclaimed World War II histories “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and “Berlin Diary.” Shirer reported from numerous European cities including Paris, Vienna and Rome, and had the distinction of being bombed in Berlin by the British and bombed in London by the Germans.

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16984/

[IMP]

If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you always got.

Linda Casey - McKesson

[DaveC426913]

If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you always got.

Linda Casey - McKesson

unless you're A Pointy-haired Boss
DaveC426913

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[FawkesCa]

English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them out, and ruffles through their pockets for loose grammer

[FawkesCa]

"Do you mind if I smoke while you eat?" ~Deep Thoat

[Wellesley]

In God We Trust. Everyone else bring data. - W. Edwards Deming

[Redbelly98]

“Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.”
-- Linus Pauling

[Astronuc]

Does anyone know the 911 number? Someone actually asked that - repeatedly.

Greece was the cradle of civilization.

I guess that makes it the birthplace of stupidity. :rofl: :biggrin:

[jobyts]

More than one Mouse is Mice
...
More than one Spouse is ....

[Ivan Seeking]

More than one Mouse is Mice
...
More than one Spouse is ....

Mormon

[Borg]

More than one Mouse is Mice
...
More than one Spouse is ....
Mormon
Mormon Spice? Which Spice Girl was that?

[Ivan Seeking]

Mormon Spice? Which Spice Girl was that?

The one wearing the long underwear.

[Lancelot59]

This is a pretty good thing to remind teenagers of:
Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.

[Danger]

Something or other on the TV brought this one to mind yesterday. Warren Oates in "Blue Thunder"—If you're walking on eggs, don't hop.

[Ivan Seeking]

I have eaten animal flesh and I have enjoyed it! What is wrong with me?
- Spock

[Lacy33]

"If this man had a funeral home, no one would die!" Wall Street, (movie)

[Astronuc]

«By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest»
attributed to K'ung Fu-tzu

[Danger]

I never thought of this as a "quote", since it doesn't come from any famous source, but I live by it. I have, in fact, used it at the recess point of a dispute with a friend. Some background for it, though, to explain why it means so much to me.
My father was a preacher (none of that hellfire-and-brimstone bible school crap; he came out of McGill in 1927 with Masters in "Religious Studies", which nowadays is classified as "Theology". He was an agnostic. Together, we got mandatory religious education kicked out of the Ontario school system.
Anyhow, his two best friends down there were a screwy little Welsh dude who was the United Church pastor about 100 metres from our place—the entire community consisted of 2 churches, 2 cemetaries, a kindergarten, 5 houses, and a shitload of orchards—and a severely religious Anglican priest. (My dad was Unitarian-Universalist, but Agnostic nonetheless.) John, the United Church dude, thought so much like my old man that they traded audiences (alright, congregations :rolleyes:) in summer. We'd go on vacation, and dad's flock would go over to John's place. When we got back, John and his wife would bugger off, and his crew came over to listen to dad. Such did not occur with the priest, but they loved razzing each other for hours on end.
So, to make a long story short (and yes, I know that it's far too late for that), the priest came up with some sort of terminal cancer. My dad made a point of visiting him in the hospital at least once a day, and even then they were scrapping in their usual friendly manner. One day, though, he decided that enough was enough and packed it in. The last thing that he said before he died was to my dad, and it's my favourite motto to this day:
I would rather argue with an intelligent man than have a fool agree with me.

This is a very long thread, and I have a very short memory, so if I've already posted the forgoing I beg your forgiveness for repetition. (I know that I related it somewhere on PF, but I can't remember where.) I simply can't read through the whole damned thing to check on it.

[Norman]

I never thought of this as a "quote", since it doesn't come from any famous source, but I live by it. I have, in fact, used it at the recess point of a dispute with a friend. Some background for it, though, to explain why it means so much to me.
My father was a preacher (none of that hellfire-and-brimstone bible school crap; he came out of McGill in 1927 with Masters in "Religious Studies", which nowadays is classified as "Theology". He was an agnostic. Together, we got mandatory religious education kicked out of the Ontario school system.
Anyhow, his two best friends down there were a screwy little Welsh dude who was the United Church pastor about 100 metres from our place—the entire community consisted of 2 churches, 2 cemetaries, a kindergarten, 5 houses, and a shitload of orchards—and a severely religious Anglican priest. (My dad was Unitarian-Universalist, but Agnostic nonetheless.) John, the United Church dude, thought so much like my old man that they traded audiences (alright, congregations :rolleyes:) in summer. We'd go on vacation, and dad's flock would go over to John's place. When we got back, John and his wife would bugger off, and his crew came over to listen to dad. Such did not occur with the priest, but they loved razzing each other for hours on end.
So, to make a long story short (and yes, I know that it's far too late for that), the priest came up with some sort of terminal cancer. My dad made a point of visiting him in the hospital at least once a day, and even then they were scrapping in their usual friendly manner. One day, though, he decided that enough was enough and packed it in. The last thing that he said before he died was to my dad, and it's my favourite motto to this day:
I would rather argue with an intelligent man than have a fool agree with me.

This is a very long thread, and I have a very short memory, so if I've already posted the forgoing I beg your forgiveness for repetition. (I know that I related it somewhere on PF, but I can't remember where.) I simply can't read through the whole damned thing to check on it.

Great story Danger - Thanks for sharing it with us! I like that quote a lot!

[G037H3]

All I know is that I know nothing.

[The legend]

"don't just learn the tricks of the trade..learn the trade."

"I am dead." :biggrin:

[The legend]

By collinsmark:
You can only be young once. But you can be immature for a lifetime.

[Astronuc]

"Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis" = "Unencumbered by the Thought Process."

from Conloquium currus :biggrin:

Personally, it's not my favorite show, and I generally don't listen to it.

[TaliskerBA]

"Fox news generally leans more to the right than a guy who's just had his right leg blown off".

- Charlie Brooker

[DaveC426913]

All I know is that G037H3 knows nothing.

What? Oh, sorry. I thought this was the PFRT thread.

[FrancisZ]

"Talkative tailors yarn on until the end of twine."

[Ivan Seeking]

Stephen Hawking is THE most stubborn man in the entire universe!
- Leonard Susskind

[Ivan Seeking]

Visit California. We have aliens. You don’t.
- a new slogan that has emerged since the NASA announcement, on Dec 2nd, about microbes in and around a California lake.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=453117

[skeptic2]

"The difference between a skeptic and a cynic is that, when confronted with something too good to be true, the skeptic says it isn't really true and the cynic says it isn't really good."

- Sydney J. Harris

[Char. Limit]

"The difference between a skeptic and a cynic is that, when confronted with something too good to be true, the skeptic says it isn't really true and the cynic says it isn't really good."

- Sydney J. Harris

I'm guessing you belong to the first category?

[Gad]

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

- Kahlil Gibran

[MoonlitFractl]

(I should of read the rest of these quotes b4 posting).

If the day comes when science can give us whatever we want, what ever we can imagine, than the beings with this power will have only one fear, when it goes away.

[MoonlitFractl]

one day the world will wake up and say "OH, THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRITUS FOUND SO FUNNY!"

[MoonlitFractl]

It would just be hilarious if som1 was given at the beginning of known time all the secrets of the universe were given and then the person said- "NO! THAT'S CRAZY! I WANT TO FIND THIS OUT FOR MYSELF! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!" And the person walked off and history began as we knew it. Where the theory for the ego would only begin from that moment, preventing knowledge to accelerate for thousands and hopefully millions of years after the ego is discovered and then completely understood and technology began moving forward. (as in now)

[MoonlitFractl]

Neurotics build castles in the sky
Psychotics live in them
Psychiatrists collect the rent
- The Lathe of Heaven


And theoretical physicists try to make bridges from the castles back to the ground.

[MoonlitFractl]

I don't know if this is a quote or irony but,

"The Greeks were on the brink of getting calculus's Limits, and then the Romans came and ruined their knowledge. The possibilities to have that kind of a "jump start" in today's world really leaves a lot to wounder. But what what the Romans taught the Greeks was the first step in quantum mechanics, weather knew it or not. (:biggrin:) The experimenter, the Greeks, are no longer the observer to world but a part of it. And the result, was utter catastrophe." And when applying quantum mechanics in reality as you know it, paranoia is a real feeling, where more or less to say in an ironic quote,

"The paranoia one feels when studying and learning about quantum mechanics, is the fear of the possible alternate universe of ghosts of the Romans &or another civilization coming in and ruining it."

[MoonlitFractl]

Don't think about the constant of time when you're running. Or you'll begin to think about every "thing" else...

[MoonlitFractl]

Originally Posted by twofish-quant
On the other hand, being a crackpot isn't necessarily a bad thing. The only difference between a genius and a lunatic is that the genius can turn off the voices when he needs to. Original post-> http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2506251&postcount=9

Than what happens when you ask the voices about where did they come from?
~~~
Always make sure you win all the arguments in your head, and read about alternate universes with reasonable caution, the rest outside your head are debatable in the terms of importance.

[Ivan Seeking]

There are two words that describe our problems in the Afghanistan war: "Pakistan", and "corruption in Afghanistan". - Senator Lindsey Graham

The meaning was clear but it struck me as funny. You could see a brief state of confusion wash over after he said it.

[MoonlitFractl]

“If only.

Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

Mercedes Lackey


http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if-only-those-must-be-the-two-saddest-words-in/411761.html


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The very beginning and the end are very simmilar, all you can say is "OH YEAH, IT HAPPENED" ,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quantum physics takes an easy approach of "if" and "only", and replaces "only" with "if" and "if" with "only".

("only if") or in other words, "the words of a spiraling chaos"

[MoonlitFractl]

There is a very strange thought about the future, the past, feeling and relativity that only lingers hauntingly to sanity and philosophy, it also goes with the quantum nature of electrons, dreams and visions.

When you make a time capsule and think "what if you met ______ from the future and they and or (it) ______" and you realize that you are only thinking of meeting yourself in some way. In other words, feeling yourself, when you're not feeling your(self) at all. Than (it) said, "hi there, you have been wasting your time your entire life, this other person has been working on the identical thing you have, and you've just been unaware of it. I can't tell you anything else, or it'll distort the time stream. But, due to relativity, you'll safely be able to have this conversation with me."

Immediately I bet you might feel like saying "well why don't you, which is a such of me, tell me to improve the past, so that you, as a such of me, have a better future?"

Than the one which is a such of you grins and says "Ah but I already have, and I have not. In which, you have to forget this in order to remain sane and for me, which is you, to exist in the future. For you already know this, almost faintly, not know this. This is very reason why we met."

Replying "Wait, how?..?"

"I felt you were needing readiness to leave, so in order to understand what is necessary to leave, you must be almost about to leave, than understand the first steps to begin"

"Are you saying that.....?"

"Yes, I have improved your life already, merely, by being here, where by, you need to forget this ever happened. Just faintly, so that I, which is you, to exist"

"wait, before I forget what just happened almost, can I ask one question?"

"sure, any question you which is I, can answer"

"what is fiction?"

"what is"

"WHAT?!"

*future self smiles.

"And what's why you needed to forget, unless you are willing to remember."

"But wait.. (puts all the quantum logic all together in their mind) than in this paradimed reality we live in, that means that are I...?"

"Do you need to ask another question?"

"Yes, and wow, you do need to sound like a computer. when talking to the past Constantly telling ourselves not to go into the future but what is around us, is constantly telling us to do so?"

"Yes from the world. No from you, which is I."

The future self only seems like a dream and you move on faintly remembering it. And the future self exists in the future, and the past self exists in the past. Allowing all the laws of physics to do so.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
When physics is over, we will be in the world of plato's logic. XD

[Jasongreat]

There are two words that describe our problems in the Afghanistan war: "Pakistan", and "corruption in Afghanistan". - Senator Lindsey Graham

The meaning was clear but it struck me as funny. You could see a brief state of confusion wash over after he said it.

That reminded me of this clip. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwrmKxq6Os&feature=related) The relevent part is about 1:28 until the 2:00 mark.

[Ivan Seeking]

What are my feelings!?!? I'm a physicist, not a hippie! - Sheldon

[DaveC426913]

What are my feelings!?!? I'm a physicist, not a hippie! - Sheldon

:rofl:

[baywax]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

[Borek]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

One of the most abused quotes.

[robsharp14]

i brought it, i sat it on the table and opened it *itch
-southpark

[Jimmy Snyder]

One of the most abused quotes.
Perhaps so, but I assume Einstein meant that a lack of knowledge could be repaired more easily than a lack of imagination.

[Ivan Seeking]

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- all Einstein

When I saw Steven Chu, at Stanford, not long after he won his Nobel prize, his lecture focused almost entirely on the importance of imagination.

Perhaps my favorite Einstein quote, this is what I use as the header for the rules in S&D

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

[╔(σ_σ)╝]

"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."

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[baywax]

One of the most abused quotes.

I didn't touch the thing man.

[Borg]

"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."

:rofl:

[DaveC426913]

"The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine."
—Abraham Lincoln

[Gad]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[MoonlitFractl]

when we prove an alternate universe we'll say "physics in our boring universe" and "PHYSICS IN THE DISCOVERED UNIVERSE!"
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One does not fear for the future when studying it, one fears that the past is wrong, and possibly improvable.
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Weather it were aliens or not, the tec is still tec.
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If you get called a genius and you feel feral, life is like a box of chocolates.
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Quantum mechanics are as simple as a little kid telling everyone not to go in the sand box that nothing happens in and another kid asks "why can't we go in it?"
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if you ever learn how to create your own paradoxes around other people, don't mess with science experiments unless you know how to explain it, (or you're just cruel.)
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the darkest dark is no more different than the brightest bright, except one thing, they're on the other side of the same coin.

[MoonlitFractl]

if and does Santa Claus exist(ed), he had an F-load of e115.

[armolinasf]

The wind, the trees, and the earth do nothing, yet their is nothing they cannot do

[DaveC426913]

if and does Santa Claus exist(ed), he had an F-load of e115.

Umm.


On the 4th page of Google results, I still haven't found a reference to e115 that makes any sense here.

Closest I've found is Estrogen Receptor alpha antibody...

[Ivan Seeking]

Umm.


On the 4th page of Google results, I still haven't found a reference to e115 that makes any sense here.

Closest I've found is Estrogen Receptor alpha antibody...

Obviously you need a refresher course in Crackpottery. Element 115 is the alleged secret element that powers the "captured alien spacecrafts" - see nutjob Bob Lazar.

MoonlitFractl, in case you didn't know, Lazar has been completely debunked.

[MoonlitFractl]

Ah, I went to the site once and "dreamed up a scenario" where allegedly he would use e115 and go from chimney to chimney almost as if he warped from time and you were seeing a paper fold than unfold across a sky. And you could only say that it happened in about 10 seconds but it would be way more than 10 seconds that passed if you saw it. (a notably trippy experience even when dreaming about it.)

[MoonlitFractl]

orginally posted by armolinasf
The wind, the trees, and the earth do nothing, yet their is nothing they cannot do.

:biggrin: This statement f-ing rokx.

All we need is to do is to create a way to put wind, trees, and earth in simple enough physics formula and people will be able to relate that, to the crazy world of physics and their behaviors to be identical and than it would be easy to just walk outside than to proclaim a theory then work on a proof to asertain it, than what provable physics knows will hyper accurate merely by having a conversation.
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An alternate universe is like a shirt, you have to want to go into it.
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Communism why it collapsed can be related to Classical physics really well. But, if quantum physics can be utilized on a massive scale, what would keep the world from becoming a grand battle of ALL political ideologies? (really, think about it, economics would initially collapse, simply "I can now have my bread in any place, any time, from any source, and I can feel contusly good about it") Where in any case the world as we knew it would be like a lot of kids trying to paint a picture, the more space we "existed on" no matter what the ideology, what ever space you could defend as your own, you'd be able to enjoy the QP on your own area. And Or, would humanity result into a few Fascist nations? (and or possibly "could we live as one" (John Lennon)with the QP. at hand.) It's a theory, I know, but it seems to just ride the window to thought and might give inspiration to other events in practical understandings of QP.

[Ivan Seeking]

Hillary Clinton spoke at the memorial service for Richard Holbrooke, today. With humor and profound respect, she described Holbrooke as one of the most stubborn people she has ever known. She reflected on Holbrooke's comment regarding Winson Churchill's famous words, "Never, never, never give up!".

Churchill, said Holbrooke, was half-hearted.

Another striking comment from Clinton: How many people can say, "I stopped a war"? Richard Holbrooke could.

Clinton and Holbrooke spent a great deal of time on airplanes together. After boarding for a long flight, Holbrooke would go into the bathroom and change from his formal suit, to a "bright yellow sleeping suit" [whatever that means!], which he would wear while addressing the members of the press onboard.

[Ivan Seeking]

...this week, we saw a white, Catholic, Republican federal judge murdered on his way to greet a Democratic woman, member of Congress, who was his friend and was Jewish. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American college student ....and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon.

...And then it was all eulogized and explained by our African-American president. And, in a tragic event, that's a remarkable statement about the country...
- Allen Ginsberg [via Mark Shields]
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/shieldsbrooks_01-14.html

[Ivan Seeking]

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
--- [Oscar] Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel in Paris where he died on November 30, 1900
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

[raam86]

"What this country needs is a good ten-cent cigar."
- Heinrich Himmler

Firstly, In 1917 U.S. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall famously said, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."

Also I am confused at to why you replaced a US vice president with of the leaders of the Nazi party.

[bobby cochran]

Life is a ***** and then you die, wheres the justice?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Here is a poem I like

REVERSE LIVING

Life it tough
It takes a lot of your time,
all your weekends
and what do you get at the end of it?
Death, a great reward.
I think that the life cycle is all backwards.
You should die first, get it out of the way.
Then you live twenty years in an old-age home.
You are kicked out when you're too young.
You get a gold watch, you go to work.
You work for forty years until you're
young enough for retirement.
You go to college,
you party until you are ready for high school.
You become a little kid, you play,
you have no responsibilities,
you become and little boy or girl,
you go back into the womb,
you spend your last nine months floating around.
And you finish off as a gleam in someone's eye.

[Char. Limit]

I don't think it's a gleam as someone's eye that you're finishing off as.

[MoonlitFractl]

Greg Bernhardt, if you meditate, meditate on it. Reallllllly... it's a real eye opener, a friend once told me a theory like that, of course it's only a theory, but being som1 who lives amongst paradoxes constantly,
the fact you bring that up, shines in a lot of directions I've learned and thought about, so if you do meditate, it seems to hold relative value..

[MoonlitFractl]

Originally posted by Ivan Seeking

Re: Favourite Quotes
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. (Oscar Wilde )

Really, really, I don't know why, but it makes me smile in a sickly happy way.
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I was watching Fantastic Mr. fox this weekend, and for some reason this reminds me of when QM gets used to it's first level, as in, to be able to crate anything in anyplace, at any time, and to cause reactions that would seem, well quantum.

Mr. Fox: [looking at an electric fence] Huh. This could be difficult.
Squirrel: It's fatal for humans, but we got enough fur to keep the voltage from getting to us. Let's go!
~
This one I wish I was told a LONG time ago (really, it touched my heart)
Mrs.Fox: Ash, I know what it's like to feel *Mrs.Fox shakes her hands in front of her face saying nothing but looking at him* ...different
Ash (her son): I'm not different, am I?
Mrs.Fox: We all are *she points to Mr.Fox, her husband* Him especially. But there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?
~
The answers are simple until we choose to acknowledge they might be complicated. And even then, they're really not, unless we call it a problem, and then the real work begins.
~
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This one I wish I was told a LONG time ago (really, it touched my heart)
Mrs.Fox: Ash, I know what it's like to feel *Mrs.Fox shakes her hands in front of her face saying nothing but looking at him* ...different
Ash (her son): I'm not different, am I?
Mrs.Fox: We all are *she points to Mr.Fox, her husband* Him especially. But there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?

Every time I read that, I just smile inside, it's amazing, and I don't know why, heck, if that's what physics will someday lead to, they should say it globally, really, it's more than just a theory, it's like a warm fabric of knowledge that really binds sanity and insanity on a personal level that can only be explained within the self, and nothing more. Much like all the equations physicists do, complicate and solve. It's like a step above quantum physics, just above it, and if we ever wanted to reach it, we'd have to go into our own bodies and where they stand in gravity. It's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, no matter which way you might turn it, except on itself, than we'd have to feel like we had to ask our self every logistic we could ever imagine. Really, it's, Fantastic.
~
The answers are simple until we choose to acknowledge they might be complicated. And even then, they're really not, unless we call it a problem, and then the real work begins.
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An obsession is not of the for the thing itself, but for the last words(and or explainable such) of the thing we imagine.
~
Sometimes I wounder if we pretend to be human, then I imagine,


"No, we made fire, we created the world around us as much as possible, we need to feel as contusly happy as a global system, (or a system we all, or at least most of us can reach) as possible, we need to be ready for the worst if the worst may be, and in the end of it all, we die without regret or mystery. Hoping that our fate wasn't chosen, and even worse, ourselves, making a mistake to carry a burden of civilization and regulations. Wanting our own freedom and reality like the childhood we abandon for a myriad of reasons, much like surrendering to classical physics in the end, with the glimmer of hope, that our hearts and minds, have a better resting place, and are not fools to our dreams. Or do we just decide, to have a life that remains fearful in form, fearless in heart, and a real sense of contusness and choice, and to enjoy all those little quirks we are know and realize, life is as crazy as we think it might be, but that doesn't mean, we should always doubt our quirks, b/c it'll all make sense in the end, and we should try, to fix ourselves in this half blind balancing act when we feel we need to. Because weather the string is long or short, it's intelligence that lets us jump around on the string and land again on it, maybe off balance, but certainly, on the string and wanting to stay on."

[Lancelot59]

“How many nuns could a nunchuck chuck, if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?”
~ Oscar Wilde

[Ivan Seeking]

Elliot Spitzer was talking about an investigation of the infamous Gambino [mafia] crime family, that he ran while serving as a District Attorney. Apparently the office of the Gambino brothers - sons of the Godfather, Carlos Gambino - was bugged. According to Spitzer, they listened for hours and hours to inconsequential discussions. Finally, a poignant moment in the discussion was reached. Tommy said to his brother Joseph, "Remember what dad always said [the investigators listened with bated breath thinking this may be their moment], 'always use a Jewish accountant'".

[lisab]

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain

[Borg]

You can tell german wine from vinegar by the label.

Another Mark Twain

[mugaliens]

“How many nuns could a nunchuck chuck, if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?”
~ Oscar Wilde

Lol, we're not allowed to chuck nuns. If we could, however, I'd rather Chuck Norris. I think he might object, though. So much for permission...

[MoonlitFractl]

A strange conversation in the Renaissance.

"No, the world isn't flat. But I got a hunch the universe is."

"What makes you say that?"

"I don't know... I don't know... but this door I opened lead me to a Different Universe and I met an old magician who heard me talking about "the new world" and he laughed for a while. The next thing he did was gave me a peice of paper, set a ball on it, and it made a depression. He smiled and then took the ball and the paper away."

"Then what??"

"He said to me, "you can either believe and learn the impossible, or you can prove it. Moreover though, it's fun to live and try to breathe a little of both, but when you realize how you got here, you'll discover more than you can ever imagine."

"So you're saying.. he said knowledge is discovered, illusionary and real?"

"Yeah, and it kinda made sense when he sent me away"

"How'd you dissapear??"

"He gave me a look that said "Sir, you are not going to believe me, I'm almost certain, but, I'm 99% guaranteed you're going to find this place again. You don't seem to stop trying to put 2&2 together." Then I didn't even move and saw this place, the magician, all across a field of blackness. Both of the places glowed, and then I got here, right across that field."

"Were you.. on potions from an apothecary?"

"I want to say yes, but I can't, in that strange field-like-place, I felt like my breath didn't work anymore, but I was just fine. Like I died in a dream and went to a different place."

"I think you're crazy."

"OH! The magician looked at me before I left and said "no matter what you say, 99% of people will regard you as crazy about this place. Listen to them with this in your memories and listen to those you consider crazy. It's a little trick to help you find THE OTHER TWO SIDES."

"The other 2 sides..?"

"I don't know.. but THE OTHER TWO SIDES... hmm.."

"You shouldn't sail anymore, you might end up dead and lost at sea.."

"Waves... OTHER TWO SIDES AND WAVES..... hmmm... uhh ok, I'm not sailing anymore. But hmm.. "

"You're going to go insane just merging everything you know together randomly."

"Well... maybe it's coincidence, or something more, but this seems to be.. accurate.."

"How..?"

"How indeed it ends to a new beginning.. how indeed.."

[MoonlitFractl]

If a day ever comes when someone describes "the vibe, the force from starwars" to you, you are writing a theory about gravity, and that very day you are talking to what appears to be a physist that you've met for the first time, and the first to events are unconnected and unaware of each other except that both amounts of data are bound by the bridges in your mind, I can't explain any better now, but paradoxes are real. REALLY, your thoughts can make a difference if they are bridged almost invrsivley and connected. Call it "A backwards effect" XD

[mugaliens]

Lol, we're not allowed to chuck nuns. If we could, however, I'd rather Chuck Norris. I think he might object, though. So much for permission...

I called Chuck. He didn't return my call. So, I guess we can't "Chuck Norris."

Given that Chuck Norris can chuck the sun... :)

[Astronuc]

Look at the world. You don't see equations carved on the mountainsides. If you did, it would be because people carved them. By the way, why don't we do that? :rofl: [Image showing Mt. Rushmore] What's wrong with us?
David Deutsch - http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation.htm l

[FizixFreak]

cool thread here is one my favorite quotes

"Empty your mind be formless shapeless.....like water you put water in to a bottle it becomes the bottle,you put water into a tea pot it becomes the tea pot water can either flow or it can crash...........be water my friend....,be water".

Probably the best quote i ever heard guess Bruce Lee was not just a kung fu master:smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

96% of college professors believe they are above-average educators
- David Brooks, The Social Animal

[Ivan Seeking]

I hate your thoughts, sir, but I am ready to give up my life for your right to express them
- Voltaire

[nismaratwork]

I take the followings as cautionary:

Life is meaningless, life is empty. When we take a life, we take nothing of value.

"We have no respect for the laws. We consider your codes of ethics, and your laws, weaknesses to be exploited in the execution of our crimes.

La shaiq' waqee mutlak bl kollin moumkin. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"

PF Quotes:

"I just unresolved the issue. And now I've resolved it again, just now. BAM!" (Greg Bernhardt)

"This is P&WA. We don't try the other guy's way. We tell the other guy that his way makes no sense and follow that with a personal attack." (Caffenta, said in jest)

General Quotes:


"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."

"Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the notches on the blade." (The Death Feud, trans from Arabic in 1800's)

"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." (Maurice Maeterlinck)

"In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight....
Not people die but worlds die in them."

Пусть будет сном что пережито мною [Pust' budet snom chto perezhito mnoyu] “Let all I have lived be as if it were a dream”
Не верь, не бойся, не проси» "Ne ver', ne bojsya, ne prosi" "don't trust, don't be afraid, don't beg"

"Your grandfather? Stay away from him you dimwitted monkey. You mustn't interfere with the past. Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it. In which case. for the love of God, don't not do it!" (Prof Hubert Farnsworth from Futurama)

The thing about Hash Cakes is this: Start off with one, wait about an hour see how you feel. Don't eat fifteen in one go, cause you will see the devil, and he'll try to rip your heart out through your kneecaps

Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you.

"We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?" (Haile Selassie) — Telegram to Winston Churchill, 1941

You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?

"Life is full of decisons. Sometimes you make the right ones, and sometimes you have to kill all the witnesses." (anon)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon." (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

"
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end." (Henry Kissinger)
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." (Henry Kissinger)
"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive." (Henry Kissinger)
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." (Henry Kissinger)
"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad." (Henry Kissinger)

"Never before in the history of warfare had there been a continuing explosive; indeed, up to the middle of the twentieth century the only explosives known were combustibles whose explosiveness was due entirely to their instantaneousness; and these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them." (H.G. Wells; The World Set Free, published 1914)


“Exercitus noster est magnus,” Persicus inquit, “et propter
numerum sagittarum nostrarum caelum non videbitis!”
Tum Lacedaemonius respondet: “In umbra, igitur, pugnabimus!”
Et Leonidas, rex Lacedaemoniorum, exclamat: “Pugnate cum animis,
Lacedaemonii; hodie apud umbras fortasse cenabimus!”

"Our army is great,” the Persian says, “and because
of the number of our arrows you will not see the sky!”
Then a Spartan answers: “In the shade, therefore, we will fight!”
And Leonidas, king of the Spartans, shouts: “Fight with spirit,
Spartans; perhaps we will dine today among the ghosts!”

"In war there can be no substitute for victory, war's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision." (Gen MacArthur re: Korea)

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.


"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." (H.H. Munroe)

"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them." (Edward W. Howe)

"...And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the Human Race. Lost in time, and lost in space, and meaning." (RHPS)

Setec Astronomy (Sneakers)

To reign over the kingdom of the world. To make its peace and write its laws. To be generous to the obedient and merciless to all those who would stand against you. Nothing ever changes. 2000 years and you still act as if the world is yours.

"You appear foolish in the eyes of others. I mock your value system. Past instances where I may have professed to like you were fraudulent. I have had sexual intercourse with your spouse or signifigant other." (Homer Simpson)

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

H
AL-9000: Dr. Chandra, will I dream?
Dr. Chandra: I don't know.

... And I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

"Sick on my journey, only my dreams will wander, these desolate moors." (Basho's Death Poem)


Conservative: "A statesmen who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." (Ambrose Bierce)
Politicians: "People who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel." (John Quintan)
Appeasers: "People who believe if you keep throwing steaks at a tiger, he'll become a vegeterian." (Heywood Brown)
Committee: "A cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." (John A. Lincoln)
Fools: "Ninety Nine percent of people in the world - and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." (William Whyte)
Cheese: "Milk's leap towards immortality." (Clifton Fadiman)
Auctioneer: "Someone who proclaims with a hammer that he's picked your pocket with his tongue." (anon.)
Certainty: "Being mistaken at the top of one's voice." (Ambrose Bierce)
Reporter: "A man who has renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh, and the devil." (David Murray)
Charity: "The steralised milk of human kindness." (Oliver Herford)
Propaganda: "A monologue which seeks not a response, but an echo." (W.H. Auden)
Cricket: "A game invented by religious fundamentalists to explain the idea of eternal hell to non-Chrisitan indigenous people of the former British Empire." (Joe O'Connor)

And the greatest... I transcribed this from an episode of Iron Chef, the comment is made by a very delicate looking young actress/judge:
"mmm and it makes a great conversation piece too!.. you know, 'hey look... DUCK FEET! yum!" (quote from Iron Chef)

[OmCheeto]

I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe.....
Attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams, glitter in the dark, near the Tanhauser Gate.

All those moments, will be lost, in time, like tears, in rain.

Time to die.

:zzz:

[DanP]

I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe.....
Attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams, glitter in the dark, near the Tanhauser Gate.

All those moments, will be lost, in time, like tears, in rain.

Time to die.

:zzz:

Run, Roy, run !

[OmCheeto]

Lori: [Kicks Doug in the face]
That's for making me come to Mars.
[kicks his groin]
You know how much I hate this ****ing planet!

Next time there is any confusion over whether or not computers should be involved in investing on Wall Street, ask a computer.....

:mad:

[FtlIsAwesome]

Today is a good day to die.

[FizixFreak]

Nismar that is one hell of a "collection" here is a quote from my accounting teacher which casually translates to

"The world has changed.........., slow and steady will DEFINITELY lose the race"

he was implying that you cannot be slow in this fast paced world:wink:

This is from a Punjabi movie from my country(translated)

VILLAIN:"You fool this is my territory"

HERO:"Only cats and dogs sets limits to their territories not humans and for your own sake remember one thing that from this day...........,this territory is mine":biggrin:

[nismaratwork]

Nismar that is one hell of a "collection" here is a quote from my accounting teacher which casually translates to

"The world has changed.........., slow and steady will DEFINITELY lose the race"

he was implying that you cannot be slow in this fast paced world:wink:

This is from a Punjabi movie from my country(translated)

VILLAIN:"You fool this is my territory"

HERO:"Only cats and dogs sets limits to their territories not humans and for your own sake remember one thing that from this day...........,this territory is mine":biggrin:

I've been collecting quotes for years... I used to use an Irc script to 'release' one upon someone's kick or banning.

ANYWAY, I like that line from the movie.

You might enjoy this (from the original True Grit... haven't seen the remake)

Villain is Ned (Ned Pepper) the Hero is Rooster (Rooster Cogburn).


Ned: What's your intention, Rooster? You think one on four is a dog-fall? [dog fall is a tie in standing wrestling]
Rooster: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned, or see you hanged at Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
Rooster: Fill your handd, you son of a [bleep]! [filll your hands meaning, draw your guns]

[FizixFreak]

I've been collecting quotes for years... I used to use an Irc script to 'release' one upon someone's kick or banning.

ANYWAY, I like that line from the movie.

You might enjoy this (from the original True Grit... haven't seen the remake)

Villain is Ned (Ned Pepper) the Hero is Rooster (Rooster Cogburn).

Hhahahahaha......., it took me some time to understand it but that was funny.

I dont know if you watch mma or not but this one is from the former UFC heavywieght champion tim sylvia

"90% of fighting is half mental"

I think he is not very good at math:biggrin:

[nismaratwork]

Hhahahahaha......., it took me some time to understand it but that was funny.

I dont know if you watch mma or not but this one is from the former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia

"90% of fighting is half mental"

I think he is not very good at math:biggrin:

Oh I watch... isn't Sylvia the guy who's arm was snapped below the elbow and he didn't even KNOW it?!

I found this years ago in the middle of a forum argument about MMA vs. Kung Fu. The discussion had become very silly, and the guy arguing for MMA finally said this:

"MMA isn't suited for counterterrorism, animal attacks, and futuristic underwater combat. Ya got me there. Next time I'm getting attacked by a bear in the Atlantic Ocean with a bomb strapped to his chest, I'll be sure to use my Kung Fu instead of MMA." (unkown)

(My horrible online translation follows)

راس نہیں ہے کہ ایم ایم اے کے counterterrorism, جانور اور futuristic زیراب حملوں کا مقابلہ ہے. انتظامیہ نے مجھے. اگلی بار مجھے ملنے سے حملہ میں ایک خرس بحر اوقیانوس کے ایک بم ریا ستیوں ان کے سینے میں جاؤں گا. میری بات استعمال kung دورہ کرنے والوں کے بجائے ایم ایم اے."

[FizixFreak]

Oh I watch... isn't Sylvia the guy who's arm was snapped below the elbow and he didn't even KNOW it?!

I found this years ago in the middle of a forum argument about MMA vs. Kung Fu. The discussion had become very silly, and the guy arguing for MMA finally said this:

"MMA isn't suited for counterterrorism, animal attacks, and futuristic underwater combat. Ya got me there. Next time I'm getting attacked by a bear in the Atlantic Ocean with a bomb strapped to his chest, I'll be sure to use my Kung Fu instead of MMA." (unkown)

(My horrible online translation follows)

راس نہیں ہے کہ ایم ایم اے کے counterterrorism, جانور اور futuristic زیراب حملوں کا مقابلہ ہے. انتظامیہ نے مجھے. اگلی بار مجھے ملنے سے حملہ میں ایک خرس بحر اوقیانوس کے ایک بم ریا ستیوں ان کے سینے میں جاؤں گا. میری بات استعمال kung دورہ کرنے والوں کے بجائے ایم ایم اے."

what the hell was that guy thinking hahahahahahahahah:rofl: counter terrorism, bears, under water combat what the hell??????????:rofl:

You didnt needed to translate that but when i read the translation i laughed even harder:rofl:

[nismaratwork]

what the hell was that guy thinking hahahahahahahahah:rofl: counter terrorism, bears, under water combat what the hell??????????:rofl:

You didnt needed to translate that but when i read the translation i laughed even harder:rofl:

The discussion had turned to which you'd use in, "real life", and people actually mentioned Navy SEALS, fighting animals... weird stuff. This guy was throwing up his hands and saying, "to hell with this!". :rofl:

[FizixFreak]

The discussion had turned to which you'd use in, "real life", and people actually mentioned Navy SEALS, fighting animals... weird stuff. This guy was throwing up his hands and saying, "to hell with this!". :rofl:

Good thing we never get that serious in our conversations:wink:

I am glad that you watch MMA have you any back ground in any martial arts?

Here are some more from mma

“I don’t want to lick any butt.” – GSP

“He beat me fair & square. no, I’m sorry, he beat me fairly squarely” – GSP

when asked "how do you punch so hard"? Rampage Jackson replied

"I put my a** in to it"

[nismaratwork]

Good thing we never get that serious in our conversations:wink:

I am glad that you watch MMA have you any back ground in any martial arts?

Here are some more from mma

“I don’t want to lick any butt.” – GSP

“He beat me fair & square. no, I’m sorry, he beat me fairly squarely” – GSP

when asked "how do you punch so hard"? Rampage Jackson replied

"I put my a** in to it"

Jackson... that is one scary dude in the octagon.

I do have a background in martial arts, but nothing as extensive as an MMA fighter, more for practical self defense on one hand, and the mental and physical conditioning on the other. How about you?

[FizixFreak]

Jackson... that is one scary dude in the octagon.

I do have a background in martial arts, but nothing as extensive as an MMA fighter, more for practical self defense on one hand, and the mental and physical conditioning on the other. How about you?

Done some kick boxing in the past and also some sanshou but i was on a beginner level i would love to spar with you:biggrin: any way what are your stats (weight and height)?

Any ways this is one from our own president

"Even more gorgeous than I had expected, now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you. If he’s (cameraman) insisting, I might hug you".

To Sara Palin former vice president candidate.

[nismaratwork]

Done some kick boxing in the past and also some sanshou but i was on a beginner level i would love to spar with you:biggrin: any way what are your stats (weight and height)?

6'2" and too damned heavy in the last few years... on the downswing fortunately. I started with NLF (Northern Long Fist) Kung Fu, branched out to Escrima, and then non-sport Krav Maga.

It's been quite a while since I've sparred to be honest.

[FizixFreak]

6'2" and too damned heavy in the last few years... on the downswing fortunately. I started with NLF (Northern Long Fist) Kung Fu, branched out to Escrima, and then non-sport Krav Maga.

It's been quite a while since I've sparred to be honest.

Hmmmmmmmmmm........, assuming you are in the same age group as i am..........., you will definitely kick my butt:redface: i am 5'9-5'10 and 150 lbs:cry:

By the way speaking of sarah palin

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies.":rofl:

Why should i bash only the politicians of my country.

[nismaratwork]

Hmmmmmmmmmm........, assuming you are in the same age group as i am..........., you will definitely kick my butt:redface: i am 5'9-5'10 and 150 lbs:cry:

By the way speaking of sarah palin

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies.":rofl:

Why should i bash only the politicians of my country.

I think Palin-bashing should be recognized as a sport by the Olympic Committee. :biggrin:

[FizixFreak]

I think Palin-bashing should be recognized as a sport by the Olympic Committee. :biggrin:

http://e621.net/data/84/d7/84d7b0ac373a152616c84a8d33260382.jpg

:rofl:

Well you have probably seen this before but i think they deserve each other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ND2FQx6WY

[nismaratwork]

http://e621.net/data/84/d7/84d7b0ac373a152616c84a8d33260382.jpg

:rofl:

Well you have probably seen this before but i think they deserve each other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ND2FQx6WY

I hadn't seen it, but I remember Pinky and The Brain... that's incredilby accurate. :rofl:

[Ivan Seeking]

I've been collecting quotes for years...

What a coincidence! So do I. For a time I kept the quotes somewhat organized but at this point it's sort of a free-for-all.

You will find some quotes from PFers, including one from Evo. :biggrin:
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

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I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.
- Barack Obama, October, 2002
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/page/2/
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Love is fleeting but stuff lasts forever. I want to keep my stuff.

Marriage? It would be easier to just find a woman that I don’t like and buy her a house.

Robert Novak? I love Robert Novak. He has one of the finest minds of the 12th century.
- Paul Begala

We can say how many of a million suns may rise, but as for ours I fear the morn. - me

“The trouble with our times,” Paul Valéry said, “is that the future is not what it used to be.”

Leaders of the future must have:
Inner mastery; a central, compelling purpose rooted in moral values; a capacity to persuade; skills in working within the system; a fast start; a strong, effective team; and a passion that inspires others to keep the flame alive.
- David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power

In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all of the children will know how to read. – Gene Roddenberry


Originally Posted by motai
Poetry is mightier than the sword/spear/halberd/lance/pistol/assault rifle/club/etc.
As your assailant comes down upon you, instead of resisting with force, you confuse them by reciting ambiguous poetry such as Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, and while they are scratching their heads and trying to figure out the general theme and underlying morals of the poem, you'd make your getaway .
Though that is rather unlikely.

This is quite a well established fact. It's the very reason that the war-cry was invented. The first mention of a war cry was by Homer, in his Illiad. As the greeks charged the Trojan lines, the Trojan war poets began to recite their verses, but unexpectedly, all the greeks let loose with a collective cry of "Λα Λα Λα δεν μπορεί να σας ακούσει!", which translates roughly as "La la la, can't hear you!" The poets were slaughtered, and the Trojans forced to retreat behind the city walls.
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Politicians are just lawyers gone bad - Integral

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
Edmund Burke

Originally Posted by Evo
Nothing gets your toe to tapping more than an accordion.


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Occam's razor probably creates as much confusion as it dispels. But then again, Occam never what he is usually attributed having said:
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." or "Entities should not be multiplied more than necessary."

His actual words were:
"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" or "Plurality should not be posited without necessity."

This is good practical advise, as is "Do not multiply entities unnecessarily" and "Of two competing theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.", which is another saying he did not say.

While occasionally useful, these principles have no scientific validity. You may as well say a screwdriver is more valid than a pipe wrench because it has fewer moving parts – Chronos at PF
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Eddington once said, proof is the alter on which mathematicians self-flaggelate themselves.

But somehow, the choice one makes affects one’s outlook and direction of attack. If one has to consider new physics one should be open to both points of view. In the unlikely event that there is new physics, one does not want to miss it because one had the wrong mind set. - John D. Anderson; Study of the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0104/0104064.pdf


To paraphrase Santayana: Newspapers ignorant of history are condemned to reprint it

Creative research is having confidence in nonsense. Burt Rutan; Black Sky The Race for Space. 10/12/04

Ghosts were people too.

Every thought that you have, and every feeling that you have, is conditioned by what you believe to be real. --- Fred Alan Wolf

“The old saying that ‘man fears time, but time fears the [Egyptian] pyramids’ is not true… One day, archeologists may even argue, that the pyramids never even existed”. -- Arthur C. Clark. On Ancient Puzzles – The Discovery Channel..

“A mummy is something that never stops giving.” – a noted archeologist

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."
---- President Eisenhower - January 1961

'If one wishes to obtain a definite answer from Nature one must attack the question from a more general and less selfish point of view.' Max Planck (1858-1947)

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."

Researchers in Fairbanks Alaska announced last week that they have discovered a superconductor which will operate at room temperature. -- unknown

"I hate your thoughts, Sir, but I am ready to give up my life for your right to express them"... Voltaire in one of his letters:

People think that scientists like to understand things. Really though, scientists like to not understand things because that gives us something to do. ----Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss
Grabel's law: 2 is not equal to 3 - not even for large values of 2.

When the Baath party was finally ejected from his town, and when asked what he wanted now that Hussein’s people were gone, one old Iraqi gent responded: “Democracy, whiskey, and sexy”.

I would rather have a regimen of German soldiers in front of me than a legion of French soldiers behind me. - General Patton


The electron is not as simple as it looks.
-- (William) Lawrence Bragg, British Physicist(1890-1971)

I know that this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied
law. -Bugs Bunny


Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.
-- Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of
television.


@A: Dyson, Freeman J.
@Q: We have learned that matter is weird stuff. It is weird enough,
so that it does not limit God's freedom to make it do what he pleases.
@R: Ch. 1, p. 8, _Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at
Aberdeen, Scotland, April-November 1985_; edited by the author (Harper &
Row, New York, 1988).


"One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that
sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of
sheer terror." -- W. K. Hartmann

“The second law of thermodynamics holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the Universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, those experimentalists do bungle things up sometimes. but if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope;
there is nothing to do but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
-------- Arthur S. Eddington (British Astrophysicist, 1882-1944) in The nature of the Physical World (1928)

The Doctoral student Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider asked Einstein in 1919 how he would have reacted if his general theory of relativity had not been confirmed experimentally that year by Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson.
His answer was: "Then I would feel sorry for the good Lord. The theory is orrect anyway."


Fermi was asked what characteristics physics Nobelists had in common.
He answered, "I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence."
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, 1901-1954 (Phys Today, Oct 1994, pg70)


I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. - Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

Physics is to Math what Sex is to Masturbation
--Richard Feynman

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in
the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince
you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics
students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it.
Nobody does.

Feynman, Richard P. (1918-1988) b. Far Rockaway, New York
Richard P. Feynman, QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Penguin
Books, London, 1990, p 9. (1) \ Nobel Lecture, 1966

@A: Murray Gell-Mann
@Q: Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into
believing that the problem [of the interpretation of quantum mechanics]
had been solved fifty years ago.
@R: Acceptance speech Noble Price (1976)

When in trouble,
When in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and Shout!

"[Smart Experimentalist]: 'Yeah, it is reminiscent of what distinguishes the good theorists from the bad ones. The good ones always make an even number of sign errors, and the bad ones always make an odd number.'"-Anthony Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell


"To those who say that the soldiers are fighting so that we have the right to protest: If that's what they're fighting for, then they should be glad that somebody is using that right."
“I have only made this longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.“
(Pascal, 1657)
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

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there
--Charles R. Darwin

Of course we know the Iraqis have weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts." -Dick Cheney


But I simply refuse to consider myself of the same species as those disgusting hairless hominids!
Now give me that banana!

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

-Albert Einstein

'There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.'
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1904-1966)


I want to sit with the rich dummies." Quote from my brother following a dinner discussion on the nature of light. – Artman at PF.com

Experience is what you get immediately after you need it. - Echo 6 Sierra
at PF.com

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. The Republic, bk. IV, 425 – B

Humor


What do you call the person who graduates last in his or her class, and from the worst medical school in the country? Answer: Doctor.

"Mrs. Felix: Why don't you do your homework?
Allen Felix: The Universe is expanding. Everything will fall apart, and we'll all die. What's the point?
Mrs. Felix: We live in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not expanding! Go do your homework.
(from Annie Hall by Woody Allen)

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unkempt campaign promises - Machiavelli

The man with the gold makes the rules - Machiavelli

Flying a plane is like riding a bike...it’s just harder to put the baseball cards in the spokes.
-Robert Stack; Airplane.

Caution: Objects in mirror are more confused than they appear

You are more likely to be killed by a pig than by a shark. – Biologist; The History Channel, Beach, Sun, 911 – 7/7/01


Question posed to a biologist:
What is the evolutionary advantage in having knees that bend forward instead of backwards…i.e. why don’t our knees bend the other way?
Answer received:
“Bipedal animals that had backward-bending knees could only run backwards and they kept bumping into trees. That's why they became extinct.”

If you are racing through rush hour traffic, a coffee cup in one hand and a cell phone in the other, and you are looking for your notebook and steering with your knees, all while phone conferencing with the boss and the boss’s boss, you are not driving dangerously.
You are multi-tasking!

[Ivan Seeking]

"'No user-serviceable parts inside.’ I'll be the judge of that!" – Every nerd in the world

I always get a chuckle when I tell the party animals that most of the helium they are breathing came about as a by-product from the decay of Uranium "You mean the Atom Bomb?."... …Sometimes it's fun to be a physicist...

I used to drive a Heisenberg, but every time I looked at the
speedometer I got lost. – [For an explanation see Heisenberg’s uncertainty priciple]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. – O.J.

Newton is for apes! – The new battle-cry of the trekkies

Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? - Gallagher

OBSERVATIONS

Here day fights with night.
(the last words of Victor Hugo)

In philosophy, the English Channel is much wider than the Atlantic

"Given time and plenty of paper, philosophers can prove anything."
---Robert Heinlein

"Don't spend $2 to dry-clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for 75 cents." ---

"It's difficult ... you need to be united to have any strength, but internal issues have to be addressed." --- E. Ray Lewis, on liberalism in America.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilization of any country. - Winston Churchill

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."

The primary cause of all of the worlds problems is low self esteem.

"Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. "

Men see the world as a battle to be won; women see it as a community to be preserved.
– Lorena Bobbit…..[yes I am pulling your leg] – Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus.

Give me a small laser and I'll move the sun. – unknown

“When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it." Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

The class of all questions contains an infinite number of members (since it is possible to go on indefinitely adding clauses to create questions of indefinite length and complexity). But there are only a finite number of answered questions, so the ratio is 0:1. .---- Charles Francis
----Corollary: we know nothing.---- Charles Francis

Men are a bit more apt than women to believe intelligent alien life exists, 51 percent to 43 percent. Younger adults are more credulous. But less-educated adults are more dubious, as are Republicans. No alien tax cut for them.
--- "Chris Wallace's Internet Expose" special on UFOs on ABCNEWS.com.--- copied 7/8/01.

Estimate: Two to four million people are having sex right now.

Given a typical life span, you can expect to spend about three and a half months having sex [in the strictest sense].
--- If “you were there,” but you don’t remember the sixties, double this number.
--- If you live in California, of if you play the electric guitar, triple this number
--- If you reeeeeeally like Star Trek, divide by two
--- If you attend Star Trek conventions, divide by eight.

A study was done to determine the average number of tactile contacts between husbands and wives [in a public place] as a function of culture. Although the numbers given here are not necessarily accurate they still convey the idea. “Couples from India touched each other an average of fifteen times per hour. Chinese couples touched about twelve times every hour. The French came in at about eight times per hour, and Americans averaged about three times every hour. “As for the British, we are still waiting.” --- Dr. Depak Chopra

Gloria: Do you know that 60 percent of all deaths in America are caused by guns?
Archie Bunker: Would it make you feel any better if dey was pushed out of windows?
---Carol OConner; All in the Family



There's a solution of the equations of general relativity called the Aichelburg-Saxl solution, which describes massless black holes moving at the speed of light. There's no experimental evidence that these actually exist, but they're fun to think about nonetheless, since you can use the equations of general relativity to figure out what they would do if they did. – Dr. John Baez

"'We are beginning to see how universes can be created,' Professor Harrison says [in an article in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society and published in the London Times about June 1999]. 'A small amount of matter -- roughly 10 kg -- at very high energy is forged into a black hole. Under the correct conditions, the interior of the black hole inflates into a new universe that endures for billions of years and contains billions of galaxies.' " At most, he argues, human intelligence is only one million years old. 'If we can already see how in principle universes can be created, then surely our descendants in the far future will have the knowledge and technology to design and create them.'"

In complex space-time, there exists a path of zero distance between any two points -

“Our universe is probably a black hole…it meets all of the [mathematical] criteria. If you want to know what it looks like inside of a black hole, just look around your room.” Dr. Michio Kaku

Academia is not the place for unconventional thought. ---David M. Jacobs, Ph.D.
[stated as an observation and point of frustration, not as an opinion].

Definitions:
Expert: knows almost everything about almost nothing
Generalist: knows almost nothing about almost everything

Logic cannot actually be employed to gain knowledge about the world around us. Logic is a more abstract process of creating knowledge. – quote from a logician who’s name is not known.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions. --- Cliff Jarvis

Look at a dog, and picture him wearing spike heels with a LONG
foot. What you are calling his knee is really his ankle! – unknown biologist

Don't teach a pig to sing…it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ---

Weep not for those who were, rather for those who may never be. –A. Einstein?

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr

…so the White House is tapping into a public opinion interested in global warming but wanting to spread the burden around the world. “Until that happens”, [President] Bush is arguing, “we will do our own thing” – ABC News Service. About 3/26/01

"When you argue with a fool, chances are he is doing just the same" ---

President Bush indicated today that Roe vs. Wade are the alternatives when crossing the Potomac. – Brian Williams

“The warning light is flashing on the dashboard of America“ --- President George Bush Jr.
[yikes!!! Now I’m really scared.]

“Logically unsound; confused and unprincipled; unwise to the extreme.” - Chinese President Jiang Zemin speaking in conference to Asian nations regarding President George Bush Jr.; 5/25/01.

One exciting element of this generation is that it could be the last.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Keep the company of those who seek the truth and run from those who have found it. – Ancient; from India.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – common saying among SETI researchers

You can take comfort in the fact that if something doesn't exist, it won't be detected

"If aliens exist, or if aliens don't exist, either way, it is a frightening thought. If aliens don't exist, then we are alone, and that's very scary. If we are not alone, that's even scarier, because look at the history of what happens when different civilizations collided in the last four hundred years." -- Arthur C. Clarke

The reasonable man adapts to the world around him, while the unreasonable person tries to change the world to suit him. Conclusion: Change only occurs because of unreasonable people.

Beware the fury of a patient man."

If you continue on your present course you will likely end up where you are going.
– an ancient Chinese proverb.

Paradox:
I have a stick. A rock sits on the table in front of you. If you pick-up the rock, I will hit you with the stick. If you do not pick-up the rock, I will hit you with the stick. What is solution?
Solution:
Tcajkwer aqwoajyg trheew smtlibcvkh. [To decode, eliminate the 2nd, 4th, 6th…letter in each word].

Remember: May 4th is International Tuba Day. Pay homage to your tuba!

I have often observed the great irony of working class wealth: If you have it, you rarely have time to enjoy it.- DW

A master craftsman who hand-makes luxury sailing yachts reflects on his skills: “I worked long hours for seven years as an apprentice. When I finished my apprenticeship, I thought that I knew how to build a boat. Now [twenty years later] I know that back then, I only knew how to use the tools. I will spend the rest of my life learning how to build a boat.” – name unknown

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.- The Proverbs, 16:18

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. - The Proverbs, 28:20

Where there is no vision, the people perish. -The Proverbs, 29:18

“I ‘ve got to get the vision thing” – President George W. Bush: responding to questions by reporters as to why Bill Clinton was leading in the polls just before the 1992 election.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. --- Ecclesiastes; or The Preacher, 1:18

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.-- The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, 7:3

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. ----Works and Days, l. 265 ; Hesiod c. 700 B.C.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor---. Works and Days, l. 694; Hesiod c. 700 B.C.
Know thyself ---. Inscription at the Delphic Oracle. From PLUTARCH, Mora-- The Seven Sages

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. ----The Confucian Analects, bk. 15:33

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love — this is the eternal law. ---- Suttapitaka. Dhammapada, 1:5


A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. --The Way of Lao tzu, 64

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. -- The Histories of Herodotus, bk. II, ch. 173
---modern: All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Oedipus Rex, l. 1230

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. The Histories of Herodotus, bk. IX, ch. 16

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Third Olynthiac, sec. 19

Much learning does not teach understanding. On the Universe, fragment 16

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . . [They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.-- The Confucian Analects, bk. 17:6

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. - Lady of Andros, fragment 50
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! -- Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] 65 – 8 B.C. Odes, bk. I [23 B.C.], ode xi, last line

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. -- Polybius c. 200 – c. 118 B.C.
History, bk. X, 36

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. Dialogues, Apology, sec. 38

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil. Decorum, bk. I

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint Exurpery in The Little Prince

“The elementary principle of all deception is to attract the enemy's attention to what you wish him to see, and to distract his attention from what you do not wish him to see.”
- General Sir Archibald Wavell,
Memorandum to the British Chiefs of Staff, 1940

And the lion will lie down with the lamb...at least until dinnertime - unknown

"A coward meets his fate in his own hideout."

I live with my head in the clouds because of the great view - DW

Show me a man with both feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants off – Roy K.

Small minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas – [loosely quoted] Eleanor Roosevelt.

A. Einstein: “God doesn’t play dice” [with the universe]
Niels Bohr: “Who are you to say what God does?”

[To] confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
-- Stephen Hawking

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing
its opponents and making them see the light, but rather
because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation
grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck

Science progresses one death at a time – A. Einstein

We are both spirit and flesh. There are no contradictions
- Werner Heisenberg

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness
to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
--H. L. Mencken



"There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." - Senator Daniel K. Inouye

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." - [former five-star general] President Eisenhower - January 1961

Knowledge is the Antidote for Fear

Such a tangled web we weave when first we practice to perceive.

Between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle.” -Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after."

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric,
out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry..."
- W.B Yeats

Magic is nothing but a sufficiently advanced technology – Arthur C. Clark

Belief lies between the imagined and the measured – DW

Anyone who understands Quantum Mechanics hasn’t yet studied it long enough.
-Richard P. Feynman

I estimate that I will publish in about 10^24 years – DW

"The half of knowledge is knowing where to find knowledge" - Anon.
Motto over the entrance to Dodd Hall, former library at FSCW.

CREATE, COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE – unknown

A thinking computer...you mean, like a swimming ship?

Definitions:
Micro-evolution: evolution for which the evidence is so
overwhelming that even the ICR can't deny it.
Macro-evolution: evolution which is only proven beyond
reasonable doubt, not beyond unreasonable doubt.
– unknown

The odds of life occurring through purely random events is about the same as the Oxford English Dictionary resulting from a print shop explosion – A. Einstein [reportedly]

I know that I know more than you, because at least I know that I know nothing.- Socrates.

To use popular language, Einstein showed us that we are reality challenged – unknown

Every time you take a breath, there exists approximately a 100% chance that you will inhale at least one air molecule that was exhaled by Julius Caesar in his dying breath. [Easily argued in thermodynamics using the laws of large numbers. This applies to every breath from every person who ever lived more than two thousand years ago].

Calculus students are required to calculate the surface area and volume of highly irregular [and sometimes purely mathematical] objects. One class of objects arises that have a finite volume but an infinite surface area – you can fill it but you could never paint it!

Known as the Canter-Bernstein theorem, it can easily be shown that an infinite number of infinities exist [mathematically]; we just don’t know which infinity describes the number [called the cardinality] of infinite sets.

[Lancelot59]

I don't think I'd want to breathe any of Julius Caesar's death-air.

[Zryn]

"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"

[FizixFreak]

Training and hard work can help human come over disadvantages of genetics and any type of adversity i believe humans are the most superior beings because they learn and adapt things through hard work better then any other species we are not superior due to appausable thumbs or our ability to walk upright so yeah hard work is the key in any walk of life(now if i could just come over my laziness and get of from the couch and go to pee)


Yours truly FizixFreak:biggrin:

[OmCheeto]

When in trouble,
When in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and Shout!

One of my favorites of all time.

Anyone know where that came from? Someone just said is was very Seussesque.

[Ivan Seeking]

One of my favorites of all time.

Anyone know where that came from? Someone just said is was very Seussesque.

Someone here had it as a sig... not sure who now.

[nismaratwork]

I forgot this one... I transcribed it years ago during an Ohio "sniper" spree. This is a former CNN anchor, who had possibly 3 neurons, all desprately trying to keep her alive... little was left for thougt.

I filed this under:Sublime idiocy: "It's not a needle in a haystack, it's a haystack full of bullets" (Daryn Kagen of CNN concerning sniper in Ohio)"

[FizixFreak]

Physics is to Math what Sex is to Masturbation
--Richard Feynman


Does masturbation means what i think it means(مشت زنی):rofl::rofl:

[Char. Limit]

Does masturbation means what i think it means(مشت زنی):rofl::rofl:

Ahh... think like sex, but you're by yourself.

[FizixFreak]

Ahh... think like sex, but you're by yourself.

So its like "helping yourself" looks like i just learned a new word:rofl:

Well any ways here are some of my favorite quotes some of them are from real life(translated)

"I cant believe it............,you are going to blame me for this"

I usually say that when i fart while i am with my friends.

"whenever i do it............,i hope its the last time"

one of my friends talking about "masturbation"!!!

"Rule 17..., never turn your back on bears,men you have wronged and dominant turkey during mating season"

From the American hit series "THE OFFICE"

"When my mother was pregnant with me they did an ultrasound and found that she was having twins and when they did another ultrasound a few weeks later they found that i had resorbed the other fetus do i regret this?..., no i believe his tissues made me stronger i now have the strength of a grown man AND a little baby"

Another one from "THE OFFICE".

[FtlIsAwesome]

UFOs exist, and there's not a single person who can deny this fact.

Well, what else would you call an Unidentified Flying Object?
[+11 char]

[jhae2.718]

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's
not why we do it. --Richard Feynman.

[petm1]

When in trouble,
When in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and Shout!

I have seen this work it was not a pretty sight but effective. One night I stopped for a frantic young lady in the fast lane of a six lane highway. She was running in circles while screaming and waving her arms. Within her circle was a person who had already been hit and then ran over by multiple vehicles. After the victim was loaded into an ambulance for transport to the hospital, I asked her why? Her reply “nothing else would get people to stop”.

[FtlIsAwesome]

http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3162996&postcount=6
[F]eel free to tell me I am an idiot.



(PS That's quote mining >grin<)

[FtlIsAwesome]

Someone here had it as a sig... not sure who now.
I saw it as a signature in the old PF 2.0.

[OmCheeto]

When in trouble,
When in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and Shout!

I have seen this work it was not a pretty sight but effective. One night I stopped for a frantic young lady in the fast lane of a six lane highway. She was running in circles while screaming and waving her arms. Within her circle was a person who had already been hit and then ran over by multiple vehicles. After the victim was loaded into an ambulance for transport to the hospital, I asked her why? Her reply “nothing else would get people to stop”.

I was caught a bit off guard by a tsunami once.(April 23rd, 2006. ~2:17pm) I was calm and collected as usual. But this very pretty young lady was running in circles, screaming and shouting before the wave hit. It totally distracted me.

Ah! This isn't random thoughts!

Ah!

:redface:

[Ivan Seeking]

The first law of mechanics: Righty tighty lefty loosey.

[jhae2.718]

The first thing we teach people visiting our flight simulators:
Stick forward, houses get bigger. Stick backwards, houses get smaller.

[nismaratwork]

The first thing we teach people visiting our flight simulators:
Stick forward, houses get bigger. Stick backwards, houses get smaller.

:rofl:

OK, that's classic.

[Lancelot59]

The first law of mechanics: Righty tighty lefty loosey.

Unless you're using propane hoses or any right hand threaded screws.

[nismaratwork]

Unless you're using propane hoses or any right hand threaded screws.

...And just like that *poof* the safe bubble in which I've lived evaporates! :wink:

[jhae2.718]

Unless you're using propane hoses or any right hand threaded screws.

You mean left hand threads, right?

[Lancelot59]

You mean left hand threads, right?

Yes. Those ones. :uhh:

[OmCheeto]

Beware the ides of March.

(plus or minus a few days) (http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3198274&postcount=1153)

[nismaratwork]

Beware the ides of March.

(plus or minus a few days) (http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3198274&postcount=1153)

Heh... good pal of mine has his birthday on the 15th... that's how I've said, "happy birthday" to him for over 20 years.

I was a prick even as a kid... big shocker right? :wink:

-----


"This is a psychiatric failure, it's not a political failure; it's a failure of our ability to provide basic care for people who have 'brain diseases- that are seriously mentally. If these people had kidney diseases we wouldn't stand for it, but they don't understand the brain well enough and we have completely failed them." (Dr. E Fuller Torrey on CNN regarding the Loughner incident, in an hour dedicated to Schizophrenia.)

[Char. Limit]

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

-Turkish Proverb

Especially true in the modern era.

[Insanity]

"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." - Ray Bradbury

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." - H.P. Lovecraft

[Ivan Seeking]

Yes. Those ones. :uhh:

Let me repeat that: Right tighty lefty loosey! :biggrin:

[nismaratwork]

"Eugene is a very natural people. You see, his way of saying 'thank you' is to get drunk and not go to work." (Eugene Mirman)

[Lacy33]

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

[nismaratwork]

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." (James Keller)

[FtlIsAwesome]

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein

[Lacy33]

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." (James Keller)

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
(Helen Keller)

[Lacy33]

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
(Helen Keller)

[FtlIsAwesome]

I think the last straw was when he reported Integral (a Mentor!) to Greg. LOL
:rofl:

[FizixFreak]

"Sometimes the journey towards a destination can be more fruitful than the destination itself"

I actually heard it in a cartoon many years ago:biggrin:

[iamBevan]

Guitars are probably the only things in the world that don't lose their value.

A friend of mine :)

[nismaratwork]

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
(Helen Keller)

That's a truly amazing quote... I'd love to be able to have a thought of that quality just ONCE in my life.

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so." (Douglas Adams)


"Wilson: [standing in the back] Do you think he was dead? Do you think those experiences were real?
House: Define real. They were real experiences. What they meant… Personally, I choose to believe that the white light people sometimes see, visions, this patient saw. They’re all just chemical reactions that take place when the brain shuts down.
Foreman: You choose to believe that?
House: There’s no conclusive science. My choice has no practical relevance to my life, I choose the outcome I find more comforting.
Cameron: You find it more comforting to believe that this is it?
House: I find it more comforting to believe that this simply isn’t a test."

[jambaugh]

A few of mine (pardon if any are repeats):

"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them." -Galileo Galilei

"Life is sweet but honor is sacred!" - Tara of Helium (from E.R.Burroughs' "Chess Men of Mars")

"The ultimate minority is the individual" -Ayn Rand

"If someone tries to kill, you try try to kill 'em right back!" - Mal (Firefly)

"They're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess." -Dwayne T. Robinson (Die Hard)

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."- Rat (Wind in the Willows)

[Lancelot59]

"If someone tries to kill, you try try to kill 'em right back!" - Mal (Firefly)

Or, you could force them to watch daytime TV until they promise to never try and kill you again. Like these guys:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/122202/aggggh-a-spider.gif

Firefly had a bunch of good lines. For instance:
"We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm a hero!" - Wash

[FtlIsAwesome]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

[FizixFreak]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

"if something is over your head reach up and grab it...........,or else it might poop in your hair"

[Lancelot59]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

Actually it does. Nicely done.

[FtlIsAwesome]

I was thinking of the common saying that something's over your head, such as advanced physics, when you don't understand it. So pursue it and gain more knowledge.

[FizixFreak]

"If you are good at some thing never do it for free"

The Joker from the "Dark Knight"

[BobG]

"Perfection - a beautiful fairy tale that always leaves you hating yourself"
- single dad laughing (http://www.danoah.com/2010/09/disease-called-perfection.html)

[Ivan Seeking]

"If you are good at some thing never do it for free"

The Joker from the "Dark Knight"

A bit of charity now and then is fine, I think, but there is some wisdom in what you say. A hobby or casual skill can prove to valuable. I now get paid to do things I used to do for fun.

On the flip side, there is the idea that one should never make a job out of a hobby.

6 Reasons to Keep Your Hobby a Hobby (and Not Make Your Hobby a Business)
http://www.carolroth.com/unsolicited-business-advice/?p=3236

[FizixFreak]

A bit of charity now and then is fine, I think, but there is some wisdom in what you say. A hobby or casual skill can prove to valuable. I now get paid to do things I used to do for fun.

On the flip side, there is the idea that one should never make a job out of a hobby.


http://www.carolroth.com/unsolicited-business-advice/?p=3236

Well there are degrees to what people like to do there are hobbies and then there is passion i don't see any thing wrong with getting paid for doing some thing you love to do or you are passionate about to some extent i see it as a luxury but then again there are somethings you will never do for money even if they needed it badly i don't think there is a word in English language to describe that but you get the idea right?

[FizixFreak]

"We cry for the ones who we love and we make those people cry who love us the most"

Unknown

[nismaratwork]

This is one I came up with. Does it make sense?


"If something is over your head, reach up and grab it."

Works for me, but I like Fizix's version too... .:biggrin:

Best Dark Knight quotes:

Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.

I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!

and the best...


Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

...And that's why we have to kill Ghaddafi! :wink:

[nismaratwork]

"The Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe: Ashkelon has been captured;
Gezer has been captured;
Yano'am is made nonexistent.
Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.
Khor is become a widow for Egypt..."

Note, do not piss off Pharoah Merneptah... or at least, not his scribes.

"Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, because I'm at 80,000 feet and climbing."


Pain is a function of nerves.
Pain comes as light comes to the eyes.
Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves.

[FtlIsAwesome]

If something is over your head, reach up and grab it.
Because you're in boat that's about go down a waterfall.

[Char. Limit]

If something is over your head, reach up and grab it.
Because you're in boat that's about go down a waterfall.

Then why would I want to get out? Most intense ride ever!

[OmCheeto]

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."- Rat (Wind in the Willows)

I have that T-shirt. :smile:

And your signature; Wavefunctions collapse, particles don't.

very much reminds me of

http://www.europa.com/~garry/mkobanner.jpg

a previous post, I once made, in a far away science forum.

[nismaratwork]

"Non sum qaulis eram, non sum qualis videor."

[FtlIsAwesome]

I have a PhD in physics. I am an authority. - Vanadium 50

[FizixFreak]

"Behind every great comedy there is a greater tragedy"

Unknown

[fillipeano]

"Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion"

Maynard James Keenan

[Char. Limit]

"Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion"

Maynard James Keenan

Now that is a man to quote.

[nismaratwork]

"Buy the ticket, take the ride." (Hunter S. Thompson)

[FizixFreak]

The best quote from the dark knight

"WHY SO SERIOUS"

[nismaratwork]

"Hurry up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're fooling around" (Karl Panzram to his Hangman before execution)

[FizixFreak]

"Hurry up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're fooling around" (Karl Panzram to his Hangman before execution)

Hanging him was a really easy death for him they should have burned him alive

[nismaratwork]

Hanging him was a really easy death for him they should have burned him alive

Meh, dead is dead... he was just a guy who needed to die to make the world a safer place. No need to torture anyone however, they'll still be dead, but you're left with the scars from tormenting another human.

[FizixFreak]

Meh, dead is dead... he was just a guy who needed to die to make the world a safer place. No need to torture anyone however, they'll still be dead, but you're left with the scars from tormenting another human.

“ In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry. ”

You call that human???????

[nismaratwork]

“ In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry. ”

You call that human???????

Maybe not, but the person who'd have to burn him would be. I don't feel a need to hurt people or see them hurt, but someone like that does need to be killed or incarcerated for life (preferably the former in this case). So, I don't particularly feel for a man who couldn't feel for others, but I don't think we need to sink to his level. Hanging is good enough, and if you believe in god he'll suffer, and if not... dead is dead.

Only the living have to bear the consequences of how they kill someone.

[FizixFreak]

Maybe not, but the person who'd have to burn him would be. I don't feel a need to hurt people or see them hurt, but someone like that does need to be killed or incarcerated for life (preferably the former in this case). So, I don't particularly feel for a man who couldn't feel for others, but I don't think we need to sink to his level. Hanging is good enough, and if you believe in god he'll suffer, and if not... dead is dead.

Only the living have to bear the consequences of how they kill someone.

The idea is not just to eliminate such human beings but also to teach others a lesson these type of people dont have anything to live for so if they know they will only be hanged for all their actions they will continue to massacar other humans but such punishment will set an example for other "people" like this

"We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow."
— Ted Bundy

You see my point??????

[FtlIsAwesome]

This is getting off-topic... lets get back to Favorite Quotes.




Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

[nismaratwork]

The idea is not just to eliminate such human beings but also to teach others a lesson these type of people dont have anything to live for so if they know they will only be hanged for all their actions they will continue to massacar other humans but such punishment will set an example for other "people" like this

"We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow."
— Ted Bundy

You see my point??????

I do, but mine is that we can learn that lesson without making their deaths horrific. These are not people who are capable of learning such a lesson, they're just a statisical group that needs to be caught and removed as soon as possible at every turn. How that's accomplished is less important that it IS important; and remember, who wants to set a man on fire? The condemned is dead, gone, or subject to divine judgement... the living are left with a burning man... quite a terrible sight and smell.

The example I want to set is not that we can be as cruel as a monster without a conscience, just that we can't tolerate it. A quick death is still death, and that's all that matters.

a repeat:
"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

[FizixFreak]

Off topic sounds familiar doesn't it Nismar:rolleyes:

"if you cant explain a concept to a bar maid or a six year old you dont know it your self"

Albert Einstine

[FtlIsAwesome]

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.


Einstein

[myth_kill]

here's a big list from my side

Oh, he seems like an okay person, except for being a little strange in some ways. All day he sits at his desk and scribbles, scribbles, scribbles. Then, at the end of the day, he takes the sheets of paper he's scribbled on, scrunches them all up, and throws them in the trash can. --J. von Neumann's housekeeper, describing her employer.


"The art of doing mathematics is finding that special case that contains all the germs of generality." -- David Hilbert


A friend who I won't name at the moment once told me this, paraphrased: An excellent problem-solver might not always be a great mathematician, while a bad problem-solver can still be an okay mathematician. On the other hand, a good Grothendieck is a great mathematician, while a bad Grothendieck is really terrible!



The question you raise, "how can such a formulation lead to computations?" doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered." - Grothendieck


The attitude adopted in this book is that while we expect to get numbers out of the machine, we also expect to take action based on them, and, therefore we need to understand thoroughly what numbers may, or may not, mean. To cite the author's favorite motto,

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers,” although some people claim,

“The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight.”

There is an innate risk in computing because “to compute is to sample, and one then enters the domain of statistics with all its uncertainties.”



"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."

--Stefan Banach

"Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories. The very best ones see analogies between analogies."

--Stanislaw M. Ulam quoting Stefan Banach

[nismaratwork]

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures." - Ash, Army of Darkness

"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with gun." - Ash, Army of Darkness

"Ok you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel... and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart! You got that?!" - Ash, Army of Darkness

"if u want to learn how to review u should there should be a lawy that you need to read n rite real good." (Gamespot Poster)

[FizixFreak]

I do, but mine is that we can learn that lesson without making their deaths horrific. These are not people who are capable of learning such a lesson, they're just a statisical group that needs to be caught and removed as soon as possible at every turn. How that's accomplished is less important that it IS important; and remember, who wants to set a man on fire? The condemned is dead, gone, or subject to divine judgement... the living are left with a burning man... quite a terrible sight and smell.

The example I want to set is not that we can be as cruel as a monster without a conscience, just that we can't tolerate it. A quick death is still death, and that's all that matters.

a repeat:
"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

These serial killers think just like us they are physically humans so the fear of execution can keep them from doing such things but lets not strech this i would love to talk to you about this subject but this thread is too good to be locked if you know what i mean:wink:

so.........,

"If you make an a** out of yourself there will always be some one to ride you"

Bruce lee

[FizixFreak]

ooops!!!!!!! i thought in this particular sentence a** meant a donkey sorry about that

[Kreamer]

"It's so damn hot... milk was a bad choice..."
-Ron Burgundy

[FizixFreak]

"The problem with real life is that there is no danger music"

Jim Carry from "the cable guy"

[FtlIsAwesome]

do you mean that a heavy mass close to the speed of light will not collapse into a black hole even if it is massive as a black hole?
This one's kind of funny.

[DaveC426913]

"The problem with real life is that there is no danger music"

Jim Carry from "the cable guy"

Awful awful movie. Angry movie.

[FizixFreak]

Awful awful movie. Angry movie.

Well i liked it and how is it a angry movie?

[Lancelot59]

Well i liked it and how is it a angry movie?

Don't forget Date Movie.

Would you like some hummis? :yuck:

That became such a bad inside joke between me and some friends after watching that.

[nismaratwork]

Nah, best hummus quote is from Charlie Sheen's amphetamine psychosis:

"Now that I have your lazy <BLEEP> attention, world. Sit back and rejoice. For the Malibu Messiah, the Condor of Calabasas, the <BLEEP> warlock of your jealous face sits before you. Undigested hummus trading real estate for this fire dance."

Yeah, he's totally fine. :rofl:

[nismaratwork]

“If the radiance of a thousand suns
were to burst into the sky
that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One-
And I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.

Chilling.

[FizixFreak]

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you."
Frank Wilczek

so true!!!!!!!

[FizixFreak]

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton.

Probably the most beautiful quote by a physicist!!!!!!!

[nismaratwork]

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton.

Probably the most beautiful quote by a physicist!!!!!!!

That is a great one...

Perhaps a modern one (sort of)

[An] Expert [is] someone who has made all the mistakes that can be made, but in a very narrow field." (Niels Bohr)

[OmCheeto]

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton.

Probably the most beautiful quote by a physicist!!!!!!!

I garbled his quote once, in a fit of rage.

I think it was called "Conqueror Mouse"

The quote's premise was that the protagonist stood atop a mountain of dead bodies, which were of his doing, in order to see further.

"Conqueror Mouse" must have been a portmanteau of "Conqueror Worm" and the diminutive of "King Rat".

Obviously, I read too many books as a child.

:blushing:

[FizixFreak]

That is a great one...

Perhaps a modern one (sort of)

[An] Expert [is] someone who has made all the mistakes that can be made, but in a very narrow field." (Niels Bohr)

I prefer this one.....,

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them”

Werner Heisenberg

[nismaratwork]

I prefer this one.....,

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them”

Werner Heisenberg

Ah, but Bohr was a good man, and Heisenberg became a Nazi... I'll stick with Bohr. :wink:

[Lancelot59]

Here's something that a lot of tech companies could follow:

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstein

[Kevin_Axion]

"I know I am mortal and the creature of a day, but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia..." - Ptolemy

[nismaratwork]

"So many of these republicans, so many, but not all, some of them; they have Bush's intellect, Berlusconni's moral attitude, and Putin's heart." (Mansour O. El-Kikhia UoT on The Daily Show')

[FtlIsAwesome]

""if u want to learn how to review u should there should be a lawy that you need to read n rite real good." (Gamespot Poster)
:biggrin:

[FizixFreak]

Ah, but Bohr was a good man, and Heisenberg became a Nazi... I'll stick with Bohr. :wink:

wow!!!!!! i didn't knew that.

[Astronuc]

Question everything!

There are no dumb questions, only bad answers.

- some manager

[Tregg Smith]

When a woman politician called Dirty Harry an a hole or something like that he replied "you tend to bring that out in a person." This almost always works for me. I use it a lot.

[Lisa!]

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.

– George Orwell

[FtlIsAwesome]

Blow the golden horn of destiny found in a cave guarded by a cyclops at the end of the world.
[8 char]

[lisab]

[8 char]

That's a nice quote :biggrin:

Edit: lol...

[MoonlitFractl]

Ignorance is not bliss, eg.) science. ^^;

my Biology teacher told me this "Ever seen the word 'nowhere'? Ever turned it into the words
'now here?" ....for some reason I expect this to burst into flames.... realllly... o_o,,

[BobG]

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton.

Probably the most beautiful quote by a physicist!!!!!!!

Interestingly, he made this comment as the postscript in a letter to a man he hated - Robert Hooke. Robert Hooke was practically deformed physically, having an ugly, dwarfish appearance.

The most humiliating insult is one that's obvious to everyone except its intended victim.

[FtlIsAwesome]

hello world

[Ivan Seeking]

A friend was complaining about the time it takes for progress on various projects in his company.

When most people would get out a stop watch, we get out a calendar.

He asked if I knew how many people work at his company. Answer: About half of them.

[Astronuc]

"People living in the late Pleistocene weren't stupid. They spent an awful lot of time avoiding being eaten, and one of the ways to do that is to stay away from big bears." - anthropologist Erik Trinkaus :rofl:

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Fate-of-the-Cave-Bear.html#ixzz1K6xEvwLH

It's smart not to be eaten. :biggrin:

[ideasrule]

"Say not, 'Why were the former days better than these?' For it is not from wisdom that you ask this." -- Ecclesiastes, 2000 years ago

2000 years ago, it was already cliche to talk about the "good old days".

[OmCheeto]

He asked if I knew how many people work at his company. Answer: About half of them.

Is it improper to "Roll on the floor laughing, peeing ones pants, and having a heart attack", in the favourite quotes section?

[FtlIsAwesome]

The first is fine, the third is lethal.

[lisab]

The first is fine, the third is lethal.

What's the second?

[OmCheeto]

What's the second?

BananaGram Poetry!

[FtlIsAwesome]

What's the second?
peeing ones pants ... in the favourite quotes section?
That will get you banned.

[FtlIsAwesome]

I knew that! :rolleyes:
...
I did not know that. :uhh:
All scientific discussions can be summed up like this. :approve:

[FtlIsAwesome]

G01 - Now, as the air of General Discussion fills my lungs, I want to laugh at both the thread and myself.

[rolerbe]

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself
I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and
diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay
all undiscovered before me."
- Sir Isaac Newton

[Triple_D]

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

[SamirS]

I really like this one:

"Teach a man to reason, and he'll think for a lifetime." (as seen in Symphony of Science, said by Phil Plait)

Said in an anecdote by Richard Dawkins about a New Scientist Editor:

"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can f*** off."

Ricky Gervais:

"If there is a god, why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake.

George Best:

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered."

[Misericorde]

"Misericorde: A dagger which in medieval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal." (Ambrose Bierce)

[Ivan Seeking]

I'm completely in the dark and I like it that way. I'm used to it.
- a friend

[Darken-Sol]

i am who i am

[Misericorde]

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." (Said by Cato The Elder after any speech, regardless of relevance to that speech)

[DaveC426913]

Corrected.
i yam who i yam

[Char. Limit]

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." (Said by Cato The Elder after any speech, regardless of relevance to that speech)

For those who do not know Latin, the above says "furthermore, I think Carthage should be destroyed."

[Triple_D]

Corrected.
Originally Posted by Darken-Sol
i yam who i yam

One more time...

I yam what I yam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Yam_What_I_Yam).

[Misericorde]

For those who do not know Latin, the above says "furthermore, I think Carthage should be destroyed."

Oh, sorry about that, I forgot to include the translation. I witlessly posted an entire joke from other sites too, so maybe not an auspicious start here?

I do love the idea that the equivalent of a US senator or feudal lord could just say, "I think that place should be razed," after EVERY speech. I would have hated to be a Carthaginian at that time, I'll tell you!

Triple_D: I yam what I yam, "cause I eats my spinach" (Popeye)

"A hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát." "They catch up with a liar sooner than with a limping dog."
A Hungarian proverb.

[FtlIsAwesome]

This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics.
w00t.

That'll be my signature someday.

[DaveC426913]

One more time...

I yam what I yam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Yam_What_I_Yam).

:bows in deference:

[FtlIsAwesome]

we are consistently inconsistent. - rhody

[Borg]

A favorite of mine:

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

[confused????]

my favourite quote..... i can resist anything........except temptation . oscar wilde

[FtlIsAwesome]

In one generation we have gone from extraterrestrial planets being a mainstay of science fiction, to the present, where Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today's reality. - Charles Bolden

[G037H3]

Umad? - 4chan to world

[ideasrule]

Umad? - 4chan to world

Urbandictionary's entry on this made me literally laugh out loud:

Possible response: "Yes, I mad, and if you weren't hiding behind an anonymous identity on the Internet, I'd find you and let you know just how mad I am."
Person 1: "Stop ****ing micspamming and hacking you ****ing dickcheese!"

Person 2: "Lol u mad?"

Person 1: "..."

(a few days later)

Person 2: " YOU KILLED MY FAMILY AND BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN! YOU *****!"

Person 1: "lol u mad?"

[Misericorde]

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials." -Ronald Knox

[OmCheeto]

If you remember, in high school there were always a couple of kids whose clothes were on crooked, whose glasses were really thick and hung sideways. Their hair was never right, and their clothes didn't match, and they looked like little lost souls wandering down the hallway. That was me.

---------------------------------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxTVxGhHFM

[Darken-Sol]

I am going to wipe man whom I have created off the surface of the earth, from man to domestic animal, to beast, and to flying creatures of the heavens, because I do regret that I have made them.

[Disconnected]

"In a flash of adrenaline I knew, absolutely knew, it could be just one thing: squid. Giant alpine squid."
Peter Croft's mind playing tricks on him on a midnight climb in the high Sierras.

[DaveC426913]

I am going to wipe man whom I have created off the surface of the earth, from man to domestic animal, to beast, and to flying creatures of the heavens, because I do regret that I have made them.

Um. Is this a quote...

... or is this just you thinking out loud?

Because if it is, perhaps I've underestimated your identity.

I'll put more in the plate on Sunday. I don't want to be wiped off the surface of the Earth please.

[Char. Limit]

Um. Is this a quote...

... or is this just you thinking out loud?

Because if it is, perhaps I've underestimated your identity.

I'll put more in the plate on Sunday. I don't want to be wiped off the surface of the Earth please.

Don't be a wimp! Take it like a man! Come on God, gimme what you got!

[Darken-Sol]

Don't be a wimp! Take it like a man! Come on God, gimme what you got!

this was a quote from god pre-flood genesis. i always think "what about the fish, its not fair."

[Char. Limit]

this was a quote from god pre-flood genesis. i always think "what about the fish, its not fair."

I stand by my statement.

[turbo]

I stand by my statement.Ah! Then you're the one who bought up all the gopher wood at the local Home Depot!

[Darken-Sol]

"war is not about who is right, but who is left." i think this was bertrand russel but i'm to lazy to find out for sure.

[FtlIsAwesome]

Beware of quotes on the Internet. They may be inaccurate. - Abraham Lincoln

[khemist]

Beware of quotes on the Internet. They may be inaccurate. - Abraham Lincoln

LoL.

"Make unusual choices."

[Darken-Sol]

...grizzly adams did have a beard.

[jobyts]

"The dream to kill me will never be completed." ~ Osama bin Laden

(true, no one is dreaming about it now...)

[jobyts]

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01


"I don't know where bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

[Norman]

‎"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow

Not necessarily a favorite, but it made me think. Don't know if I agree with it or not.

[Darken-Sol]

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!

[DaveC426913]

Great quote, but...
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

Not accurate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintaglio_Ascension_Trilogy). :biggrin:

[FtlIsAwesome]

Great quote, but...


Not accurate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintaglio_Ascension_Trilogy). :biggrin:
haha!

[Misericorde]

"Hide a knife behind a smile" (unknown)
"Smiles conceal knives." (Fynn Flewelling)

[Char. Limit]

Actually, "hide a knife behind a smile" is one of the Thirty-Six Strategems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems) of ancient China.

[Misericorde]

Actually, "hide a knife behind a smile" is one of the Thirty-Six Strategems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems) of ancient China.

Thanks, I didn't know that!

[chhitiz]

the rational man tries to change himself, the irrational man tries to change the world. thus, all progress depends on the irrational man.

[Duderonimous]

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

[FtlIsAwesome]

To infinity. And beyond!

[DaveC426913]

"Hide a knife behind a smile" (unknown)
"Smiles conceal knives." (Fynn Flewelling)

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers

[Misericorde]

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers

That's wicked! Seems true as well.

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." (Russian Proverb)

[Misericorde]

"May you live a long and lucid life spent in excruciating physical and mental anguish." -Me

[Borg]

I may be apatetic but, I don't care.
- the internet

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.
- some TV show

(I'm also too lazy to look up the authors today) :biggrin:

[Misericorde]

"They're all jerks, when you're out here on your own, just assume that everybody else is drunk or on the phone. They're all jerks, not a one knows how to drive, so yah gotta pay attention, to make it home alive..." (Part of 'Grandpa's Advice', a song about driving)

[FtlIsAwesome]

"They're all jerks, when you're out here on your own, just assume that everybody else is drunk or on the phone. They're all jerks, not a one knows how to drive, so yah gotta pay attention, to make it home alive..." (Part of 'Grandpa's Advice', a song about driving)
*chuckle*

[jobyts]

Bill Maher New Rule:

“non-violence was Jesus’ trademark” and that Christians who celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden are not faithful to the teachings of Christ.

“If you’re a Christian and support killing your enemies and torture, you have to come up with a new name for yourself,”

“Capping thine enemy is not exactly what Jesus would do — it’s what Suge Knight would do …Martin Luther King gets to call himself a Christian because he actually practiced loving his enemies, and Gandhi was so ****ing Christian he was Hindu”

[khemist]

"Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says... 'Oh ****...he's awake!!'"

[DaveC426913]

"Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says... 'Oh ****...he's awake!!'"

:rofl:
(Reminds me of the Klingon death ritual of screaming. They scream not out of mourning, but to warn the Underworld that a warrior is coming.)

[Darken-Sol]

leave her be, i do not wage war on women.
conan

[Frankly]

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."


Carl Sagan

[Misericorde]

leave her be, i do not wage war on women.
conan

You see, this always confused me when the same character claimed that the best thing in life was, "To crush your enemies , see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women." -Conan

It just occurred to me, given the nature and outrage of his recent scandal, maybe that wasn't so much Conan as Schwarzenegger himself. :rolleyes:

[Misericorde]

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."


Carl Sagan

"Just because it could be, doesn't mean it is; just because anything is possible doesn't imply a physical reality." -Me, just now.

[ryan albery]

Hendrix, 'when the power of overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.'

Descartes, 'I think, therefore I am.'

'To know the good is to do the good,' said Socrates.

Brian Madland, 'I wish I knew if we were near where we needed to be.'

'Can you know where you're going if you don't know how you got here?'

'A lofty spot is a fine place for a dead-reckoning wanderer.'

'Not all who wander are lost.'

And while measuring gravity out of a Sno-Cat on the frozen Arctic ocean, one of which had a serious exhaust leak, me radioing them... Derek Vanwestrum, 'Schrodinger's Sno-Cat, we're still alive.'

[Darken-Sol]

You see, this always confused me when the same character claimed that the best thing in life was, "To crush your enemies , see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women." -Conan

It just occurred to me, given the nature and outrage of his recent scandal, maybe that wasn't so much Conan as Schwarzenegger himself. :rolleyes:

ah, you are watching conan, i am reading conan.

[Misericorde]

I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London. -Apocryphal attrib. Wernher Von Braun

[Ivan Seeking]

"Let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.
- Newt Gingrich

[lisab]

Post your quotes here.

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=23681

-Evo

[Ryumast3r]

I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

Always do more than is required of you.

-- George S. Patton

I love all of these quotes so much.

The first one because, well... imo there's just so much to it.

Second one because it's funny, considering who the guy is.

And the third because it's good advice.

[Misericorde]

- Newt Gingrich

I thought this was a joke, then Googled it; I'm absolutely stunned. I knew the guy was a maniac, but damn!

[l-1j-cho]

"My proof is wrong" - anonymous

[ideasrule]

My favorite Mao Zedong quote: "You [intellectuals] revile us for being Qin Shi Huangs. You are wrong. He buried 460 scholars alive; we have buried forty-six thousand scholars alive..."

[SnowWhite28]

I like lots of Bridget Jones sayings the entire film for me is the source of wisdom :) It has a very elegant humor, I like the movie greatly and the quotes are fascinating I can't even choose one for citing! :)
This must be my favourite Mark Darcy: Mother, I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney, and dresses like her mother.

[Jimmy Snyder]

Oh cheer up Harold, it's not like it's the end of the world. - Mrs. Camping.

[Misericorde]

Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat (Gaelic)
means= "May the cat eat you, and the devil eat the cat."
-Old Irish/Gaelic curse

Part of a triad of classic curses:

"May you leave without returning."
"May you fall without rising."

I don't know the Gaelic for those however. Nasty, but funny too; very Irish.

[Misericorde]

"The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding fine." -Longfellow quoting 17th century manuscript, possibly originally Greek

[Ivan Seeking]

~ 1:100 people are psychopaths. For CEOs and politicians, the average is about 4:100
- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry; Jon Ronson

This suggests that we have four psychopaths in the Senate, seventeen in the House of Representitives, and had one or two as President.

[WhoWee]

- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry; Jon Ronson

This suggests that we have four psychopaths in the Senate, seventeen in the House of Representitives, and had one or two as President.

Sounds like a fun political thread - it's a long weekend?????:smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

Congratulations. Just remember that it takes commitment. Marriage is an institution and you should be committed to an institution.
-----

[uhjim]

"Fear not, yet anxious be"

[uhjim]

"Face is the natural abstraction of unity in being, the capital of being and the crown upon your head."

[Misericorde]

- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry; Jon Ronson

This suggests that we have four psychopaths in the Senate, seventeen in the House of Representitives, and had one or two as President.

If that's accurate, that's terrifying, but it sure does explain a lot of things.

[Monster92]

"Three is a crowd and two is none" - Oscar Wilde :D

"Never talk disrespectfully of society. That's for people who can't get in to do" - Oscar Wilde

"Life sucks. Then you die" - Unknown

[Jimmy Snyder]

"Three is a crowd and two is none" - Oscar Wilde :D

"Never talk disrespectfully of society. That's for people who can't get in to do" - Oscar Wilde

"Life sucks. Then you die" - Unknown
The second one is from the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Wilde
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

I couldn't find the first one.

[Monster92]

The second one is from the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Wilde

I couldn't find the first one.

OMG! You're awesome. The first quote was from Algernon too from the importance of being earnest it's somewhere in the beginning. That book is so funny!

[Jimmy Snyder]

OMG! You're awesome. The first quote was from Algernon too from the importance of being earnest it's somewhere in the beginning. That book is so funny!
Got it.
You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

My favorite line from that play:
Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London.

[lisab]

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

--attributed to several people

[joesmith]

What you are shouts so loudly that I cannot hear what you say < Emerson>

[fourier jr]

can someone remind me what that quote was by a physicist that says something like skipping the easy stuff at the beginning of a book is worse that skipping the hard stuff at the end?

[Misericorde]

can someone remind me what that quote was by a physicist that says something like skipping the easy stuff at the beginning of a book is worse that skipping the hard stuff at the end?

I don't know, but I get the point, and it's a good one.

"...in the Twilight there is no difference between the absence of darkness and the absence of light." (English translation, Sergei Lukyanenko)

[Lancelot59]

Here's one I heard on Definately Not The Opera:

"Men use love to get sex, and women use sex to get love."

When you think about it from a biological standpoint it actually makes sense.

[DaveC426913]

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
--attributed to several people

:biggrin:

(This should be the byline of the S&D forum...)

[Ivan Seeking]

:biggrin:

(This should be the byline of the S&D forum...)

Except that it is explicitly wrong. The plural of anecdote can indeed be data, but not scientific data.

[Ivan Seeking]

I will never forget the carefree days of kindergarten...
- from my nephew's 6th grade graduation speech

:rofl:!!!

[Norman]

- from my nephew's 6th grade graduation speech

:rofl:!!!

That is excellent! :rofl: Did some one get it on video?

[Misericorde]

- from my nephew's 6th grade graduation speech

:rofl:!!!

That kid is either a budding genius, or in desperate need of prozac! Possibly both...

“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.” (Oppenheimer)

[Ivan Seeking]

Did some one get it on video?

Obviously you don't know his mother. :biggrin:

[mayhem7]

Favorite quote (Not my own): "I don't like that Raymond"
And (also not my own): "Head, move, now!"

[Misericorde]

"The human rectum is almost nightmarishly elastic..." -Patton Oswalt

[dreamerregina]

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

[daveb]

A bumper sticker I recently bought....

Stop using my name to justify your bad decisions - God

(no idea who really came up with it, but I was amused nonetheless)

[FizixFreak]

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
- Jack Handey

[OmCheeto]

I don't repeat gossip, so listen carefully!!!


*per wiki: aka beer koozie, cozy, coosie, hugger, huggie, can cooler, beer sleeve, stubby holder.

[tenchotomic]

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?
Unknown

[Jimmy Snyder]

Say cheese.
- Leonardo Da Vinci.

[OmCheeto]

You can't kill an idea whose time has come.

Just read this today. Seems like such a truism, that there must have been someone in the past that said it before him.

google google google

Here's one I found that's pretty close:


There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.

Actually, there are a lot of great quotes about ideas (http://www.agingandcreativity.com/Great_Quotes.html).

I think I love them all.


I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Wait!

Who threw this one in there?


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

:biggrin:

[Astronuc]

Today there is real danger that the American Dream
will become the Forgotten Dream.
For freedom is not the right to do as one pleases,
but the opportunity to please to do what is right.
The Founding Fathers sought freedom . . .
Not from law
but freedom in law;
Not freedom from government—
but freedom in government;
Not freedom from speech—
but freedom in speech;
Not freedom from the press—
but freedom in the press;
Not freedom from religion—
but freedom in religion.
We need to ponder these things today. Rev. Peter Marshall ca. 1946-1949 His sermon on the American Dream seems relevant and timely today even if one does not share his theology.

http://www.lectioecclesia.com/Marshall,-Peter-on-National-Confession,-The-American-Dream.php

Excerpts (http://books.google.com/books?id=r4oMwEhPCwoC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=Peter+Marshall,+American+Dream&source=bl&ots=mdk-sssWm1&sig=8gcOQDW4EeKobZbf6DUdZK5DHwg&hl=en&ei=8ZM9TpTBKNSTtwfEsMGAAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false) It's an excellent book about an excellent person.

[Zantra]

I''ve got tons of quotes but I think I'll go with:

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town

-Jack Handy

[DaveC426913]

Originally Posted by Groucho Marx

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Thank you. This is one of my faves. But I never knew to whom it was attributed until now.

[OmCheeto]

Thank you. This is one of my faves. But I never knew to whom it was attributed until now.

You're welcome. But I wouldn't put too much weight in the source. I found it on the internet.

Another of my favorites attributed to Marx, was; I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member.

Woody Allen attributes the quote (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/quotes) to Freud.

But I take the quote quite personally, and really don't know why you people let me hang around here.

[WiFO215]

Thank you. This is one of my faves. But I never knew to whom it was attributed until now.

Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_fruit_flies_like_a_banan a) says that the quote has been wrongly attributed to Groucho.


For some reason, on the Internet the saying often is attributed to Groucho Marx, but according to The Yale Book of Quotations there is no reason to believe Groucho actually said this.

[Ivan Seeking]

"Our right hand doesn't know what our far right hand is doing."
- Ronald Reagan

[OmCheeto]

Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_fruit_flies_like_a_banan a) says that the quote has been wrongly attributed to Groucho.

Very much in his style though. Dollars? Taxes?

uM01v_vVnbg

I am a Marxist!

But I digress.....

back to the topic:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/time-flies-arrow/#more-157

But I'm a huge fan of the wit of old:

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

dear oh dear oh dear oh dear.... Evo warned me of the rules about to be wielded regarding politicizing threads.... I think I am not long of this forum..... :(

[henlus]

My favorite quote is "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof"

[Lancelot59]

"You can't spell compliance without liance"

[DaveC426913]

I don't get it.

(Unless this is the Lame Jokes thread...) :smile:

[Redbelly98]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"The future ain't what it use to be"

Both attributed to Yogi Berra

"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra :rofl:

"I really didn't say everything I said."
-- Yogi Berra

[OmCheeto]

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone, drops to zero.

Actually, it was some guy from Pasco.

Palahniuk is his name, so says wiki. Which also according to wiki, was Jack Palance's actual birthname: Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк

I wonder if they are related.

....

I'm not in random thoughts, am I.

sorry.......

:redface:

[OmCheeto]

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Hmmmm.... Simple as that. :smile:

[Ivan Seeking]

President Nixon: So Doctor, the world is safe again.

Doctor Who: SAFE?!?!?! Of course it's not safe. There are a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your world.

[WhoWee]

President Nixon: So Doctor, the world is safe again.

Doctor Who: SAFE?!?!?! Of course it's not safe. There are a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your world.

Ivan, I didn't know you were a fan of "Who" - like in WhoWee.:wink:

[Ivan Seeking]

Ivan, I didn't know you were a fan of "Who" - like in WhoWee.:wink:

I've been a Whovian since the 80s.

Netflix has one of the very early Whos availalble for streaming - The Aztecs; 1964. Wow! It seems, from what I've seen so far, that the audience never even saw inside of the TARDIS back then. In my view, for 50 years Who has just gotten better and better. It is quite an amazing story in the history of Sci-Fi.

The programme is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world,[1] and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time, in terms of its overall broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, iTunes traffic, and "illegal downloads".[2] It has been recognised for its imaginative stories, creative low-budget special effects during its original run, and pioneering use of electronic music (originally produced by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop). The show is a significant part of British popular culture[3][4] in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere it has become a cult television favourite. The show has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series. It has received recognition from critics and the public as one of the finest British television programmes, including the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series in 2006, and five consecutive wins at the National Television Awards from 2005 to 2010, in the Drama category while under Russell T Davies' reign as executive producer.[5][6] In 2011 Matt Smith became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA for portraying the Doctor, but lost to Daniel Rigby.
- wiki -

First aired in 1963, so almost 50 years.

[FizixFreak]

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Here is another one

Lady Aston : Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!

Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly."

The funniest thing is that churchill wad really drunk

[Tregg Smith]

Seinfeld I think: "Women need a reason to make love men just need a place"

[Tregg Smith]

Monty Python: Nixon went in to get a new ***hole but the ***hole rejected him.

[OmCheeto]

When the white man discovered this country, Indians were running it. No taxes, no debt, women did all the work. White man thought he could improve on a system like this.

Once in a while, a young person posts something, that looks pretty profound. Often times, it is something very old, that has been rediscovered. The above I discovered after I read my FB friends quote yesterday:


Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.


I'm not sure why I like young people. Perhaps, it's because they remind me of me, in my youth.

[jobyts]

If Bush was cancer, and Obama is the chemo, Rick Perry is what it looks like when the cancer returns. - Bill Maher

[jobyts]

I'm not sure why I like young people. Perhaps, it's because they remind me of me, in my youth. - OmCheeto

[jambaugh]

If Bush was cancer, and Obama is the chemo, Rick Perry is what it looks like when the cancer returns. - Bill Maher
OK if we're going to go after political digs...
(Subconscious honesty?)
"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." – Obama, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009

[WhoWee]

If Bush was cancer, and Obama is the chemo, Rick Perry is what it looks like when the cancer returns. - Bill Maher

If Maher was ever funny - he's morphed into something that isn't - now he's just mean, nasty, bitter, and mostly irrelevant.

[Ivan Seeking]

If Maher was ever funny - he's morphed into something that isn't - now he's just mean, nasty, bitter, and mostly irrelevant.

I thought "mean, nasty, bitter and mostly irrelevant", were job requirements for popular comedians.

That particular comment was pretty benign for Maher.

[Galron]

"I refuse to believe God has given us the faculty of reason only to forgo its use."

Voltaire.

[WhoWee]

I thought "mean, nasty, bitter and mostly irrelevant", were job requirements for popular comedians.

That particular comment was pretty benign for Maher.

Are you sure it's good for us to agree so often - what will folks think?

[fillipeano]

"We're all pretty bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it."
From the Breakfast Club :D

[Astronuc]

"ENJOY LIFE NOW - IT HAS AN EXPIRATION DATE" - author unknown to me

[Lisa!]

Rumors and speculations travel faster than light. Real data and publications are a bit slower. :wink:

Hmm, is that because rumors and speculations do not actually contain any information?

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=532620&page=3

[DoggerDan]

"If you don't know what it is, it's best to leave it alone." - Anon, but very true for divers. There some things down there which can put a world of hurt on you.

[DaveC426913]

"If you don't know what it is, it's best to leave it alone." - Anon, but very true for divers. There some things down there which can put a world of hurt on you.

Amen. Brushed up against one or two of em...

[OmCheeto]

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Found whilst searching for answers to the casimir effect on neutrinos & FTL (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html) on John Baez's web site (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/).

[Astronuc]

Waste not, want not!

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/09/14/business/energy-environment/flare-ss.html
In the Bakken shale area of North Dakota, oil producers burn millions of cubic feet of natural gas as waste every day. Environmental advocates criticize the practice as wasteful and polluting, but state regulations are weak and federal ones are nonexistent.

[FizixFreak]

Newton died an 84 year old virgin

Just noticed it on the first page and this is surprisingly true!!!!!

In fact i think some one should really use this line as a signature:rofl:

[OmCheeto]

Against stupidity, the gods themselves, contend in vain.

Also a good book. :wink:

[Borg]

Originally Posted by Friedrich Schiller
Against stupidity, the gods themselves, contend in vain.
Also a good book. :wink:
True dat. :rofl:

[Demystifier]

What are your favourite quotes?

http://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=1816

[DaveC426913]

http://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=1816

Interestingly, this...
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

...is exactly what we're arguing against, in this thread (http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3534922&postcount=71).

(A-wal doubts GR because he can't formulate a conceptual model of the event horizon of a black hole. We are arguing that the math models it, that we do not have a conceptual model for something so far outside our experience.)

[MrNerd]

One of my favorites is by Shakespeare:

"there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." (From Hamlet)

There's also another one about being less likely to break means it's a living hell trying to fix it, or something along those lines. I don't remember who said it, though.

[FizixFreak]

"stay hungry stay foolish...,i have always wished that for my self"

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

[lisab]

"stay hungry stay foolish...,i have always wished that for my self"

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Nice.

[jobyts]

‎"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life." -Steve Jobs

[FtlIsAwesome]

I'm always up for a good debate on any subject whether or not I know much about it.:tongue2: - DaveC426913 (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3544768)

[Jimmy Snyder]

"What is a Hilbert Space?" - David Hilbert.

[Mathguy15]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

[1MileCrash]

My all time favorite:

"I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude, wanted to leave some souvenir."

Van Gogh

:)

[Astronuc]

A lot of advertising is based on making people feel anxious, and feeling insecure.

Jean Kilbourne, EdD

[jambaugh]

My new favorite quote:
deceiving people is always more lucrative than enlightening them.

[lisab]

My new favorite quote:

:approve: It was instantly a classic!

[OmCheeto]

My new favorite quote:

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

[Jimmy Snyder]

My new favorite quote:
I respect Neal Stephenson's opinion, but he is simply wrong.

[Char. Limit]

I respect Neal Stephenson's opinion, but he is simply wrong.

I respectfully disagree. Most arguers on the internet (and I really would go so far to say "almost always") do fit the type he describes, in my opinion.

[Borek]

I respectfully disagree. Most arguers on the internet (and I really would go so far to say "almost always") do fit the type he describes, in my opinion.

I sometimes wonder if Jimmy makes notches on his keyboard each time he scores.

[OmCheeto]

I respectfully disagree. Most arguers on the internet (and I really would go so far to say "almost always") do fit the type he describes, in my opinion.

On second thought, I have to agree with Jimmy. Being a non-mathematician, I don't believe in infinity.

Wait! What's this? Mathematician's don't either?

Limits to Infinity (http://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/limits-infinity.html)

* We can't say what happens when x gets to infinity
* But we can see that 1/x is going towards 0

hmmm......

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing t, where t --> infinity.

hmmm....

Perhaps Neal was just dumbing it down, for people like me. :blushing:

---------------------------------
reconnecting with my nerdish mathematical inner child

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't know who to attribute this one to.

Never argue with a fool. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience!

[OmCheeto]

I don't know who to attribute this one to.

Never argue with a fool. They will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience!

Jeez Louise!

In attempting to find the origin of that quote, I think I've discovered the 16 year old whose free t actually does --> infinity:

User:Easter Monkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Easter_Monkey)
Current number of articles: 3,787,303

This page has been vandalized: thrice.

:bugeye:

[Adyssa]

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong

I watched a whole bunch of space films and doco's recently, "The Right Stuff", the HBO series, "From The Earth To The Moon" and a few others on Apollo and the shuttle missions, and I'm all sorts of awe-inspired.

I can't believe they did it, just amazing! :D

[lisab]

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

-- Will Rogers


Well it's a nice sentiment, at least :devil:

[Lancelot59]

Well it's a nice sentiment, at least :devil:

Depends on each person's definition of "fun" I guess.

[samuelarnold]

"Catch the vision, smell the dream. Make toast and then put it in your anorak. Yes! I’m the only comedian ever who drinks Perrier, it’s a bit sad innit? "

[Astronuc]

"Fortunately, science works even if you don’t believe in it!" :biggrin:

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie

[mr.me]

I don't know who to attribute it to:

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, friendship and to turn around three times before lying down.

[Borg]

I don't know who to attribute it to:

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, friendship and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benchley) according to this site (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_benchley.html).

[Ivan Seeking]

Jerry Sandusky released an autobiography in 1999 titled

Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story
http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-Sandusky-Story/dp/1582613575

[uhjim]

"we are all Bozo's on this bus" Firesign Theater

[Ivan Seeking]

Cynicism ages better than sentimentality.
[I didn't catch the name of the person speaking at the time]

[luckyg]

What are your favourite quotes?

do or die is my favorite quote...

[Astronuc]

This is rather worrisome -

"The fundamental issue is that law schools are producing people who are not capable of being counselors. They are lawyers in the sense that they have law degrees, but they aren't ready to be a provider of services."

JEFFREY W. CARR, the general counsel of FMC Technologies

[shashankac655]

My favorite quotes

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-G M TREVELYAN

Education is a process of wasting 1/4th of your life to learn how to waste the remaining 3/4th-George Bernard Shaw

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird



I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley


I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man ,if you get him off the thing he is educated in-Will Rogers

To live is the rarest thing, most people exist that's all -Oscar Wild

[shashankac655]

If you want to make peace ,don't talk to your friends ,talk to your enemies- MOSHE DAYAN

"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." -- Confucius

[Mépris]

"Eyes on the prey, not the horizon." - Farkas, in some cave, before he turns into a werewolf, in Skyrim.

"CALIGULA, détourné, sur un ton neutre.
Les hommes meurent et ils ne sont pas heureux.

HÉLICON, après un temps.
Allons, Caius, c'est une vérité dont on s'arrange
très bien. Regarde autour de toi. Ce n'est pas cela
qui les empêche de déjeuner."

Exchange between Caligula and Helicon. (Albert Camus)

[PNGeng]

"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

[OmCheeto]

The orange box on the bridge does not hesitate to contact us.

Bad translator creates some of my favorite quotes.

[jobyts]

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. - Jimmy Carter

[hotvette]

"A man's got to know his limitations" ..... Clint Eastwood (from Dirty Harry I think)

[Ivan Seeking]

"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

"If you ever get to heaven, don't act surprised when you see who's there. No doubt many will be equally suprised to see you."

[FizixFreak]

"my mama always says life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're gonna get"

Forrest Gump

Honestly i never understood this............, if its a box of choclate you are abviously going to get CHOCOLATE right?

[lisab]

"my mama always says life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're gonna get"

Forrest Gump

Honestly i never understood this............, if its a box of choclate you are abviously going to get CHOCOLATE right?

:rofl:

[Tregg Smith]

"my mama always says life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're gonna get"

Forrest Gump

Honestly i never understood this............, if its a box of choclate you are abviously going to get CHOCOLATE right?

Well you could get a cherry filled chocolate or a creamy center chocolate or a caramel filled one or a maple one or an almond or a peanut butter or a jelly or one with a mouse fetus or a worm or a shard of glass or a gold nugget. There are many different but they all look the same so you never know what you will get. Get a box for your woman and see for yourself.

"stupid is as stupid does" mama Gump I have never really understood that one. Examples plz?

[Jimmy Snyder]

"stupid is as stupid does" mama Gump I have never really understood that one. Examples plz?
It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

[DaveC426913]

It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

I did not think that's what that phrase meant.

[Jimmy Snyder]

I did not think that's what that phrase meant.
Well?

[DaveC426913]

Well?
I never really had an idea what it meant.

I just sort of assumed it was some sort of badly formed 'I know you are but what am I?'

[Ivan Seeking]

It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

j4XT-l-_3y0

[lisab]

I never really had an idea what it meant.

I just sort of assumed it was some sort of badly formed 'I know you are but what am I?'

I think it's based on the idiom, "Pretty is as pretty does (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Pretty+is+as+pretty+does)."

To me it sounds like something Forrest's mother came up with on the fly, as a response to someone calling him stupid.

[FizixFreak]

Well you could get a cherry filled chocolate or a creamy center chocolate or a caramel filled one or a maple one or an almond or a peanut butter or a jelly or one with a mouse fetus or a worm or a shard of glass or a gold nugget. There are many different but they all look the same so you never know what you will get.



Mouse fetus,worm,shard of glass what the hell!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a box for your woman and see for yourself.

Too bad i cant do that i only have an imaginary girlfriend:redface:

[FizixFreak]

He who procrastinates laughs last.

That my friend..........., is not true.

[Lancelot59]

Good judgement comes from experience.

Experience comes from poor judgement.

[Noko]

“To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher.”
Nietzsche

"Confine yourself to the present."
Marcus Aurelius

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

[Ivan Seeking]

“Economic forecasting was created to make astrology look respectable.”
- Kenneth Galbraith

[PatrickPowers]

What are your favourite quotes?

"You want fries with that?"

[Drakkith]

My favorite quote is my forum signature.

[FizixFreak]

Best quote ever!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9c_tK8yNA

Milk spilling words:approve:

[navynuclear]

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.” Eleanor Roosevelt

[navynuclear]

“Economic forecasting was created to make astrology look respectable.”
- Kenneth Galbraith

sweet

[lisab]

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.” Eleanor Roosevelt

:uhh:...are you sure Eleanor Roosevelt used the term "badass"?

[DaveC426913]

:uhh:...are you sure Eleanor Roosevelt used the term "badass"?

"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity."
-Abraham Lincoln

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Abraham%20Lincoln%27s%20Internet%2 0Wisdom

[Borg]

:uhh:...are you sure Eleanor Roosevelt used the term "badass"?
It appears to be misattributed (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt#Misattributed) from a movie.

[navynuclear]

Ok ya got me..."I am not a crook" Richard Nixon

[Borg]

Another Richard Nixon quote:

!$#^*@!*&%

[navynuclear]

It appears to be misattributed (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt#Misattributed) from a movie.

Got me again. It was from the movie The Sound of Music.

[Char. Limit]

"God created the integers... and he made infinity too, just to confuse us."

[Willis666]

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
-Buddha

[navynuclear]

"God created the integers... and he made infinity too, just to confuse us."

lol!

[Ivan Seeking]

Nobody can use dirty words or nudity [on television] but Steven Spielberg
- Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/iphone/news/world/story.html?id=5974603

[Jasongreat]

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts" - Richard Feynman

[Gad]

a strange passion is moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird
which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so
that the one i love is everywhere?

- jalal ad-din rumi

[Ivan Seeking]

It's always nice to meet a world leader who has bigger ears than me.
- Obama; at Disneyworld.

[Ivan Seeking]

Newt Gingrich: I don't understand why people take an instant dislike to me.

Bob Dole: It saves them time.

[lisab]

Newt Gingrich: I don't understand why people take an instant dislike to me.

Bob Dole: It saves them time.

I lol'ed at that....

[Borg]

I lol'ed at that....
It brought a smile to my face as well.

[Ivan Seeking]

Ron Paul had some great lines in the Republican debate last night.

Wolf Blitzer: If you were President and Raúl Castro [President of Cuba] called, what would you say to him?

Ron Paul: I'd ask him why he called.

[Astronuc]

"Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness." social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. I think here, the term religion refers more to ideology. Interesting point though.

“When it gets so that your opponents are not just people you disagree with, but… the mental state in which I am fighting for good, and you are fighting for evil, it’s very difficult to compromise,” Haidt tells Moyers. “Compromise becomes a dirty word.”

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do-conservatives-and-liberals-see-the-world/

[Ivan Seeking]

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do-conservatives-and-liberals-see-the-world/

I liked this quote, from the same link

Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, looked at how often books had not been returned, from lots of libraries. And, right, the ethics books were more likely to have been not returned than other philosophy books

[Ivan Seeking]

"Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness." social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. I think here, the term religion refers more to ideology. Interesting point though.

“When it gets so that your opponents are not just people you disagree with, but… the mental state in which I am fighting for good, and you are fighting for evil, it’s very difficult to compromise,” Haidt tells Moyers. “Compromise becomes a dirty word.”

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do-conservatives-and-liberals-see-the-world/

One thing about his position that is annoying is that he ignores that on the right, actual religion does play a huge role, and they believe they really are fighting against evil. That seems like a fairly significant point to overlook given the context.

On the matter regarding ethics books... too funny, but almost predictable as irony.

If explicit cognition about morality promotes moral behavior then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books similar in age and popularity. Study 1 found that relatively obscure, contemporary ethics books of the sort likely to be borrowed mainly by professors and advanced students of philosophy were actually about 50% more likely to be missing than non-ethics books. Study 2 found that classic (pre-1900) ethics books were about twice as likely to be missing.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/EthicsBooks.htm

[ArcherofScience]

“It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.”

[OmCheeto]

“.....but silence is better than idle words.”

Thank you for that. I turned off my cell phone last weekend and got tons of work done. Amazing how he could predict, 512410 days before the invention of the cell phone, that my brother would call me every weekend, for several years, talking at me about his colon polyps.

Anyways, my good friends today, steered me to this quote:

Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of. I will never see a cent from my case. But with the passage and the president’s signature today, I have an even richer reward.

Cheers to richer rewards.

To richer rewards, my friends.

:smile:

[jobyts]

43865

[Ivan Seeking]

The Euro-zone crisis is effectively over
- Fareed Zakaria; Fareed Zakaria GPS, this morning

[OmCheeto]

you can’t put a gun rack on a Volt

Ya, but, I'll bet a

.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world....

would fit in the glove box.

...punk..

:devil:

[OmCheeto]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.


via Jim Clifton, Page 72, The Coming Jobs War

[Ivan Seeking]

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have the Secret Service accompanying them. In Santorum’s case I think it’s the first time he’s actually ever used protection.
- Sen. Scott Brown (R)

[nitsuj]

[Stupid is as stupid does] It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

Just wanna second that interpretation.

More specifically I think it points out stupid is something people do, not something people are.

Said different and in context of the movie being mentally slower, doesn't imply stupid. And if you think it does, well that's stupid :tongue: . And stupid is as stupid does.

[Ivan Seeking]

Fifty years ago tomorrow, Walter Cronkite began his broadcasts of the evening news, on CBS. Back then the evening news lasted 15 minutes.
- Bob Schieffer; Face the Nation

[Lisa!]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein

[Hobin]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein

Are you sure Einstein said that? I can't seem to find a source.

In other news:
"Swooping is bad." - Alistair, Dragon Age: Origins.

[Lisa!]

Are you sure Einstein said that? I can't seem to find a source.

In other news:
"Swooping is bad." - Alistair, Dragon Age: Origins.
No, I was in doubt whether this quote is his or not, then I searched for it and I found some websites which said that's his! Anyway I like this quote and I don't care who's said that.

[DaveC426913]

“But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
or spend its life proving you wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_gourami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_rivulus
http://treesandshrubs.about.com/b/2011/04/01/some-fish-can-climb-trees.htm

:biggrin:

[Lisa!]

or spend its life proving you wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_gourami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_rivulus
http://treesandshrubs.about.com/b/2011/04/01/some-fish-can-climb-trees.htm

:biggrin:

That doesn't mean all fish climb trees anyway!:tongue2:

[Rajput9572]

Getting defeated is just a temporary notion, giving it up is what makes it permanent. This quote is from one of my favorite quotes.

[Ivan Seeking]

Somebodies' got to stand up to experts
- Don McLeroy, Former Texas State Board of Education Chairman, speaking out against teaching evolution as a fact.

I’ve always been a fan of reality by majority vote
- Colbert

[jobyts]

(PF gods need at least 4 letters in a post. Attachment bytes don't count :(.)

[Jasongreat]

There are 100 billion stars in the sky, that used to be an astronomical number, now it is the amount of our federal budget making it an economical number. - Richard Feynman(in around 1963, in his famous lectures, not an exact quote though) now it is closing in on being only the interest payment on our federal debt. Kind of kills looking at the night sky for me. :)

[Ivan Seeking]

There are 100 billion stars in the sky, that used to be an astronomical number, now it is the amount of our federal budget making it an economical number. - Richard Feynman(in around 1963, in his famous lectures, not an exact quote though) now it is closing in on being only the interest payment on our federal debt. Kind of kills looking at the night sky for me. :)

It's a good thing we don't use smaller units of currency. You might lose your zest for life altogether! :biggrin:

[DaveC426913]

(PF gods need at least 4 letters in a post. Attachment bytes don't count :(.)

This is what I use:

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[Ivan Seeking]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2282/bohrhorseshoe.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/9/bohrhorseshoe.jpg/)

[Astronuc]

A Cherokee Legend
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html

[Ivan Seeking]

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
- Will Rogers

[Hobin]

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

*puts on his conspiracy-theory-hat* But what if it does?! Congress is secretly disturbing the dead. :eek:

[Ivan Seeking]

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Making death worse is a matter for the Vatican. :biggrin:

[Borg]

A Cherokee Legend

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html

Nice. Very true. :smile:

[stevenelson53]

“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.”
_____________________________________________
http://www.ezeeprinting.com/

[Ivan Seeking]

"A pit bull is delicious."
- President Obama

Moral of the story: Our President is soooooo tough that he eats pit bulls for breakfast.

[jobyts]

"A pit bull is delicious."
- President Obama

Moral of the story: Our President is soooooo tough that he eats pit bulls for breakfast.

Sour grapes!!! Obama tried to eat Sarah Palin and didn't work out.

[Ivan Seeking]

Sour grapes!!! Obama tried to eat Sarah Palin and didn't work out.

It didn't? :confused:

[Borek]

A Cherokee Legend

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html

I know the guy who made this page. World is much smaller than one may think.

[Ivan Seeking]

World is much smaller than one may think.

I believe that originates as a Disney legend, not Cherokee.

[lighting]

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

~ Segal's Law

[Ivan Seeking]

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

~ Segal's Law

I like that!

[OmCheeto]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/552070_10150733360386275_177486166274_9920673_9480 21456_n.jpg

I have often wondered why it is that the warriors see things more clearly than the peaceniks.

I suppose, they are more aware of the wolves.

[Ivan Seeking]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/552070_10150733360386275_177486166274_9920673_9480 21456_n.jpg

I have often wondered why it is that the warriors see things more clearly than the peaceniks.

I suppose, they are more aware of the wolves.

It seems to me that your statement is a direct contradiction to Bradley's.

[0Thomas]

It depends on how you define science.If you define it as libraries of knowledge then yes, it's people who collected that knowledge.Though the main feature of science the trial and error method is widely used by other animals.

You can also ask was it Karl Benz who invented the first car and the answer is yes and no.He first made a modern car, before there were steam powered cars, carriages drawn by horses, wheel is even older invention.

The same with science.Humans were the ones who produced the science as we see it now, but as the car couldn't work without wheels, science could not have came into existence without consciousness.So it's partly product of evolution, partly product of human contributions.

[Hobin]

It depends on how you define science.If you define it as libraries of knowledge then yes, it's people who collected that knowledge.Though the main feature of science the trial and error method is widely used by other animals.

You can also ask was it Karl Benz who invented the first car and the answer is yes and no.He first made a modern car, before there were steam powered cars, carriages drawn by horses, wheel is even older invention.

The same with science.Humans were the ones who produced the science as we see it now, but as the car couldn't work without wheels, science could not have came into existence without consciousness.So it's partly product of evolution, partly product of human contributions.

Did you, by any chance, mean to post this in this (http://physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=601669&page=2) thread?

[OmCheeto]

It seems to me that your statement is a direct contradiction to Bradley's.

Perhaps, but I haven't thought logically since my brain damage, and cannot take responsibility for anything I've said over the last 10 months.

But I find the thoughts of many an old warrior, that I've seen over the past few years, to be way ahead of their time:

Two years before I was born:
One final thought I should like to leave with you. High-energy consumption has always been a prerequisite of political power. The tendency is for political power to be concentrated in an ever-smaller number of countries. Ultimately, the nation which control - the largest energy resources will become dominant. If we give thought to the problem of energy resources, if we act wisely and in time to conserve what we have and prepare well for necessary future changes, we shall insure this dominant position for our own country.

Two years after I was born:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

At least 12 years before I was born:
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

But then again, I suppose it's all about which basketball team you rooted for during your childhood.

[fletch-j]

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 the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite!
- Paul Dirac

[Infinitum]

One man's meat is another man's poison.

[fletch-j]

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
- Werner Heisenberg

[Ivan Seeking]

... And Mitt Romney is criticizing the president. He said Obama should not politicize the death of Osama bin Laden. Mitt Romney made that announcement on the anniversary of bin Laden's death, standing next to Rudy Giuliani, in a fire station, in New York City, at 9:11 in the morning....
- Jay Leno

[Borg]

:rofl: That's why this is one of my favorite quotes:
Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

[davenn]

my fave is from the late Prof Richard Fyenman....

" It's the way nature is!
If you dont like it, go somewhere else...
To another universe, where the rules are simpler
Philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy"

Dave

[daveb]

"Maddest of all is to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be" - Don Quixote

[davenn]

ok hopefully this hasnt been posted before
93 pages is too many to check through ;)

" How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys!"

Accurately defines the way my wife feels at her workplace at the moment

cheers
Dave

[Jimmy Snyder]

"Maddest of all is to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be" - Don Quixote
This is from the musical "Man of La Mancha", not the original book by Cervantes.

[Borg]

ok hopefully this hasnt been posted before
93 pages is too many to check through ;)

" How can I soar like an eagle when I'm surrounded by turkeys!"

Accurately defines the way my wife feels at her workplace at the moment

cheers
Dave
It's much easier to search threads with Exploded view (http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-23681.html).

[payalarora833]

hiiii

MY Favorite Quote is

An Overflow Of Good Convert Into bad ................. By William Shakespeare

[Jimmy Snyder]

hiiii

MY Favorite Quote is

An Overflow Of Good Convert Into bad ................. By William Shakespeare
Thy overflow of good converts to bad. It's in The Life and Death of Richard the Second. It refers to the bad child of a good parent.

[Whovian]

"And you are forgiven, always and completely forgiven."

Uttered by Matt Smith in Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat.

[Char. Limit]

"And out of Zion shall come forth the law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Nation shall not raise sword against nation, and they shall not learn war anymore, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken."

- David 2:2

[Jimmy Snyder]

We know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.
I don't know about this mother/father stuff. Sounds risque to me. Oh, and there's the hypocrisy too.

[OmCheeto]

Just so are these preachers and scholars holding various views blind and unseeing.... In their ignorance they are by nature quarrelsome, wrangling, and disputatious, each maintaining reality is thus and thus.

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carrying on...