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- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
- Delmore Schwartz
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know:
1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them. - Murphy's Computer Laws (Finagle's Rules)
- Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard
- Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- We can never tell what is in store for us.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
- Unknown
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