Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

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FizixFreak said:
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.
 
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nismaratwork said:
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??
 
FizixFreak said:
“ 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.
 
nismaratwork said:
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 don't 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?
 
This is getting off-topic... let's get back to Favorite Quotes.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
 
FizixFreak said:
The idea is not just to eliminate such human beings but also to teach others a lesson these type of people don't 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)
 
Off topic sounds familiar doesn't it Nismar:rolleyes:

"if you can't explain a concept to a bar maid or a six year old you don't know it your self"

Albert Einstine
 
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
 
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
 
"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)
 
nismaratwork said:
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 let's 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

 
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ooops! i thought in this particular sentence a** meant a donkey sorry about that
 
"The problem with real life is that there is no danger music"

Jim Carry from "the cable guy"
 
schonovic said:
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.
 
FizixFreak said:
"The problem with real life is that there is no danger music"

Jim Carry from "the cable guy"

Awful awful movie. Angry movie.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Awful awful movie. Angry movie.

Well i liked it and how is it a angry movie?
 
FizixFreak said:
Well i liked it and how is it a angry movie?


Don't forget Date Movie.

Would you like some hummis?

That became such a bad inside joke between me and some friends after watching that.
 
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. :smile:
 
Baghavad Gita via Oppenheimer said:
“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.
 
"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you."
Frank Wilczek

so true!
 
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton.

Probably the most beautiful quote by a physicist!
 
FizixFreak said:
"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)
 
FizixFreak said:
"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:
 
nismaratwork said:
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
 
FizixFreak said:
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:
 
Here's something that a lot of tech companies could follow:

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstein
 
"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
 
"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')
 
nismaratwork said:
""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:
 

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