all good things should have an end // all compilable begins should have an end
Einstein said that genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
The mind is said to be twofold: The pure and also the impure; Impure -- by connection with desire; Pure -- by separation from desire.
The Ancient Doctrine of Mind Over Matter: I don't mind... and you don't matter. -- As revealed to reporter G. Rivera by Swami Havabanana
He's like a function -- he returns a value, in the form of his opinion. It's up to you to cast it into a void or not. -- Phil Lapsley
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. -- Abigail Van Buren
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. -- Art Buchwald
You never learn anything by doing it right.
When in doubt follow your heart
"Dream big, And make mistakes. New ones. Making the same mistakes does not get you anywhere." -- Rakesh Mathur (junglee.com)
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." --Helen Keller
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. --Christopher Morley.
The only problem with being a man of leisure is that you can never stop and take a rest.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend -- Henry David Thoreau
Any sucessful team needs one rational person who feels that its not gonna work.
When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there. (Japanese Proverb)
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. (Donald Trump)
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. (Michelangelo)
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. (Douglas Adams, "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy", 1980)
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. -- Bertrand Russell, in "Marriage and Morals", 1929
An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not let it spill out). The American said with a nervous laugh,
"Surely you don't believe the horseshoe will bring you good luck, do you, Professor Bohr? After all, as a scientist --" Bohr chuckled.
"I believe no such thing, my good friend. Not at all. I am scarcely likely to believe in such foolish nonsense. However, I am told that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not."
Our dreams should be stronger than our memories; for when our memories become stronger, we become old.
Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there.
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers." --Erich Fromm
"You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French." --Napoleon, writing to one of his generals
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them" -- Heisenberg
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal
"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss." --Diane Ravitch
"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?" --Robert Townsend
"Today is a gift; that's why it is called the present."
"Today is the first day of the rest of my life Yesterday a dream and tomorrow a vision. Today well lived As if it's the only one I have Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope." -- Goeffrey Moss
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing. -- David Viscott
"Irrationality is the square root of all evil" -- Douglas Hofstadter
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy. -- Albert Einstein
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." -- Redd Foxx
"There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at them." -- Niels Bohr
"The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously. It's only life after all." -- Indigo Girls
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -- Buddha
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Some see things as they are and ask `Why?' I choose to see things as they never were and ask `Why not?'" -- Robert Kennedy
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'" -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better" -- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"