All Quotes
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There is no "royal road" to geometry.Euclid, Said to king Ptolemy I
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.Walt Whitman
I bet the human brain is a kludge.Marvin Minsky
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.Jonathan Swift
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching
"Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex.Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
"Home is where you wear your hat.Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
Nietsche is Pietsche."Ogden Nash