2005-05-12

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
--- Sir Winston Churchill

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
--- Archimedes.

That much was the belief he had on himself.

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds.
--- Bhagavad Gita

2005-05-09

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains.
--- Margaret Chase Smith.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
--- Albert Einstein

2005-05-07

Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.
Meaning: Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away.
--- Anon., Carmina Burana

It is Latin.............!

2005-05-06

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
--- C. A. R. Hoare

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
--- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--- Albert Einstein

----------> He's is ryt once again.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
--- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Pygmalion" (1913)

2005-05-05

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
--- Mahatma Gandhi

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
--- Aristotle

After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.
--- some laymen

The cycle

2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.

Friendship
I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me
Tim of Ath, Act i, Sc.1

--- Shakes speare