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"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution."
         - Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900 - 1975)

"Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night."
         - William Blake

"Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful"
         - William Morris

"Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed."
         - Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky

"People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are always happy."
         - William Faulkner

"A change of perception is worth 80 IQ points."
         - Alan Kay

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
         - Helen Keller

"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."
         - Lou Holtz

"If you don't fail regularly you are not trying hard enough things."
         - Ivan Sutherland

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."
         - Theodore Sturgeon

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
         - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
"But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
         - Lewis Carroll

"Someone once said life is hard. I say, compared to what?"
         - Harvey Mackay

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be a chess player, not the chess piece."
         - Ralph Charell

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need."
         - Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it."
         - Buddha

"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."
         - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love is something you do, not something you feel."
         - Gordon Atkinson

"And soon I will have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being!"
         - David Warner as Evil (Time Bandits, 1981)

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."
         - Marva Collins

"Life is just one damned thing after another."
         - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

"We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?"
         - Anonymous

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'"
         - Helen Hayes

"Software code, like laws and sausages, should never be examined in production."
         - Edward Tenner

"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
         --Confucius

"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."
         - Alan Perlis

"The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper pictures of the garbage."
         - George Carlin

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
         - Theodore Roosevelt

"Becoming the champion is often the luck of the draw, but being a contender, a somebody with promise, is about hard work and character."
         - Robert Lipsyte

"Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy."
         - Janet Long

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."
         - Robert Heinlein

"Nothing is as simple as it seems at first.
Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle.
Or as finished as it seems in the end."
         - Anonymous

"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate."
         - Thomas Watson, founder of IBM

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
         -- Helen Keller

"The fundamental law of English vocabulary: if enough people can figure out what it means, it's a real word, regardless of whether it was ever previously used."
         -- Nathan Eady

"It is never too late to start early."
         -- Anonymous

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
         -- Peter Drucker

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
         - Laurel Ulrich

"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that anymore."
         - Dorothy Parker

"I don't wear a wrist watch for a similar reason: if you wear a watch, it means that your life is structured such that you frequently need to know what time it is. And that means that your life has taken a wrong turn somewhere."
         - Jamie Zawinski

"Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
         - Henry Ford

"All these stupid but unpostponable everyday affairs are a serious test of my patience, and I begin to understand why men treasure good, practical housewives so highly. Were I a man, I'd choose myself a beautiful little housewife who'd free me from all this."
         - Sofia Kovalevskaia (19th-century mathematician)

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll probablly end up someplace else."
         - Yogi Berra

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
         - Calvin Coolidge

"If you always do what you have always done then you'll always have what you've already got."
         - Unknown

"Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else."
         - Donald Knuth

"Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity."
         - John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834-1902)

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. "
         - Howard Aiken

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
         - Muhammad Ali

"If everything's under control, you're going too slow."
         - Mario Andretti

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
         - Will Rogers

"Man can live without air for a few minutes, without water for about 2 weeks, without food for about 2 months, and without a new idea for years on end."
         - Anonymous

"Even when people are more successful than they had imagined, nothing is ever achieved without giving something up. "
         - Judith M. Bardwick

"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate"
         - William of Ockham

"Education is not the filling of a pail, it's the lighting of a fire."
         - Yeats

"Quality is never an accident; it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."
         - Rhoberta Shaler

"Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae"
(To know what to ask is already to know half.)
         - Aristotle

"You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem."
         (Edwards' Law)

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
         -Cyril Parkinson (aka "Parkinson's Law")

"Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy."
         - Ronald T. Azuma

"Chance favors the trained mind."
         -Louis Pasteur

"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."
         -- Charles M. Schulz

"Never asribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."
         -Anonymous

"The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: 'I do not know.'"
         -Andre Maurois

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
(Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound)
         -Anonymous

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."
         - Chuck Reid

"Success is nothing more than going from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm."
         - Winston Churchill

"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome;
if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent;
if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
         - Lord Salisbury

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
         -Elbert Hubbard

"Two step formula for handling stress:
1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. Remember that it's all small stuff. "
         -Anthony Robbins

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up."
         -Anonymous

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
         - M. Cartmill

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it."
         - Richard Feynman

"The bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacle. The bigger the obstacle, the bigger the achievement. So blame the failure not on obstacles but on the absence of relentless effort"
         -Ravi Batra

"There is an art to science, and science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole."
         - Isaac Asimov

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
         - Albert Szent-Gyørgyi

"This is my way. What is your way? THE way doesn't exist."
         -Nietzsche

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
         -Ovid, ~30 BC

"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers."
         -Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
         - Larry N

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity ... the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
         -Cory Everson

"It is well remembered that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
         -John Andrew Holmes

"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."
         -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft?"
         -Christine Comaford (PC Week, 9/27/95)

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
         -Bill Gates, 1981

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
         -Adolf Hitler

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."
         -John Von Neumann, 1949

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem resembles a nail."
         -Abraham Maslow

"Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty."
         - Lise Meitner

"There is nothing permanent, except change."
         -Heraclitus

"I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence."
         - Walter Annenberg

"A distributed system is one that stops you from getting any work done when a machine you've never even heard of crashes."
         -Leslie Lamport

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
         -Thomas Alva Edison

"Women have not yet achieved the right to be mediocre."
         -Anonymous

"All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness."
         -Richard Lamm

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
         -Andrew Jackson, 1833

"Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare or well done."
         -Ernie Kovacs

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."
         -English Professor, Ohio University

The problem with Engineers is that they cheat in order to get results.
The problem with Mathematicians is that they work on toy problems in order to get results.
The problem with Computer Scientists is that they cheat on toy problems in order to get results.
         - Unknown

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around us.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone of us.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
         - Marianne Williamson from A Return to Love
(famously quoted by Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech)