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- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
- If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
- In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
- John C. Dvorak
- Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
- There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
- We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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