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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you
learn the game."
-- Winston Churchill
"It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise,
and you should never stop being that way; but what you learn as you get
older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying
to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will
certianly be lost unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who
will remember your contributions and carry them forward..."
-- Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age)
"We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it
was extremely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people
laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line
from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu is trying to
persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him he takes
on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of
worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
-- Robert Oppenheimer
"My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just
like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can
give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real
achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent
rules."
-- Donald Knuth
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then
I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of
their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of
work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is
better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than to be
selfish and worry about my liver.' "
-- Jack Handey
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a
poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of
reward after death."
-- Albert Einstein
"There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content
but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral,
necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is
precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly:
he seeks for her soul -- and goes on seeking."
-- Nietzsche
An adviser to President Lyndon Johnson has recalled that once when
reporters asked him why the United States was waging war in Vietnam, the
president "unzipped his fly, drew out his substantial organ, and declared
'That is why.' "
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should
they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God."
-- George W. Bush
"Originally, SAT stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test. When the test changed a
few years ago, the official name was changed to Scholastic Assessment Test.
In 1997 the test makers announced that SAT no longer stands for anything,
officially."
-- The Staff of Kaplan, Inc.
"Science education in the United States today exists as a kind of mining and
sorting operation, in which we, the existing scientists, cull through what
comes our way, searching for diamonds in the rough that can be cleaned and
cut and polished into glittering gems just like us. The rest are cast on
the slag heap, left to fend for themselves with no basic understanding of
the sciences. The paradox of elites and illiterates exists because our
system of science education is designed to produce that result."
-- David Goodstein
"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which
constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of
inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for
conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
-- Alfred Adler
"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let
loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
-- Donald Knuth
"An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in
your sleep at any time."
-- Trent Reznor
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked
at in the right way, did not become still more complicated."
-- Poul Anderson
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it."
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall ... Voltaire
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