Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 25, 2004
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
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Michael Pritchard  
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle  
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
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Stephen Hawking (1942 - )  
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