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<blockquote data-quote="mattj" data-source="post: 89219" data-attributes="member: 544600">&quot;If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.&quot;- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)&quot;The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.&quot;- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)&quot;Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.&quot;- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)&quot;Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it&quot;- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)&quot;While we are postponing, life speeds by.&quot;- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)&quot;Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?&quot;- Bumper Sticker&quot;God, please save me from your followers!&quot;- Bumper Sticker&quot;Fill what&#039;s empty, empty what&#039;s full, and scratch where it itches.&quot;- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life&quot;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.&quot;- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)&quot;Luck is the residue of design.&quot;- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team&quot;Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.&quot;- Mel Brooks&quot;Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.&quot;- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)&quot;Wit is educated insolence.&quot;- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)&quot;My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you&#039;ll be happy; if not, you&#039;ll become a philosopher.&quot;- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)&quot;Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.&quot;- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)&quot;A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.&quot;- Gore Vidal&quot;Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.&quot;- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)&quot;It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.&quot;- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)&quot;The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.&quot;- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)&quot;Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.&quot;- Guy Davenport&quot;When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.&quot;- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)&quot;Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.&quot;- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)&quot;The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.&quot;- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)&quot;We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?&quot;- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)&quot;When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.&quot;- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)&quot;In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it&#039;s the exact opposite.&quot;- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)&quot;I would have made a good Pope.&quot;- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)&quot;In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.&quot;- W.B. Prescott&quot;Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.&quot;- John von Neumann (1903-1957)&quot;The mistakes are all waiting to be made.&quot;- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game&#039;s opening position&quot;It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.&quot;- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)&quot;Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.&quot;- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mattj, post: 89219, member: 544600"] "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) "Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799) "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" - Bumper Sticker "God, please save me from your followers!" - Bumper Sticker "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Wit is educated insolence." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." - Gore Vidal "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." - Samuel Palmer (1805-80) "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) "Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny." - Guy Davenport "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac (1902-1984) "I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann (1903-1957) "The mistakes are all waiting to be made." - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands [/QUOTE]

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