Random Quotes
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Jules Renard
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.Dennis Miller
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.Bertrand Russell
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.Neil Gaiman, Sandman
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.Sir Arthur Eddington
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.Hesiod
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.Douglas Adams