Interesting Quotes

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Lewis Carroll

"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

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Montaigne

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

"Remember Computers can give you the answers, but you must ask the questions.  Never stop asking questions, for questions are what propel us forward."
  Mr. DeMerle, 1999

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957

"But what...is it good for?"
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC

"Hey, I know this! This is Unix!"
- Jurassic Park

"Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple."
- Byte, December 1994

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
- Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes

"From space, I saw the fragile blue earth without borders."
- Onizuka

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.
Anonymous

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
David Ferrier

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
Wernher von Braun

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis - Epigrams of Programming

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise, and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach

Everybody continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Sir Arthur Eddington

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Cudgel thy brains no more about it.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!
William Wordsworth

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A. B. Alcott, Table Talk