Quotes

Here are a bunch of quotes collected over time:

"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is."

How come every time you go to the emergency room they got doctors from India there? I don't want to put my life in the hands of a doctor who believes in reincarnation. Give me a good old-fashioned American doctor who'll make sure I live to pay the bill.


When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President.
Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow

Vincent: For someone who was never meant for this world, I must admit I am having a hard time leaving it. Although they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.

From the movie 'Gattaca'

It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is.
If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't
our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, "Edpress News"


Dorothy Parker quipped, “If all the sweet young things in this room were laid end to end... I wouldn’t be the least surprised.”


He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
-- Oscar Wilde

'Twas the Night before Crisis

Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1: Don't do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet.
- M.A. Jackson
"The best is the enemy of the good."
- Voltaire

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.


Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
-Rumi


Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
-- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
Necessity is a mother.

If you can't be good, be careful.
If you can't be careful, give me a call.

It is a great nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction has to be believable, but in reality, anything can happen.
-Michael O'Brien


We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
-- Niels Bohr

Dodger’s manager Tommy Lasorda was once asked, "Did you ever think in your wildest dreams that you’d be in the World Series?" and replied "My wildest dreams have nothing to do with baseball."

"What George Washington did for us was to throw out the British, so that we wouldn't have a fat, insensitive government running our country. Nice try anyway, George."
-- D.J. on KSFO/KYA

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen

If you don't know where you are going, you will end up somewhere else.
-- Yogi Berra


Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine

Buddha
"The Enlightened One"


Someday is today.


Mark Twain:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


"Don't ever let the facts get in the way of a good story."


"... After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known
quotations."
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare