QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, cont.

• "Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serentity at the center of it all." - Robert M. Pirsig "Ride the surf of the sea of neuron activity." -
  
  
• 1 First draw the curves, then plot the data.
  
  

• If you are stupid enough to use an IBM PC, you only have yourself to blame.
  
  
• Change password and underwear frequently.
  
  
• The most dangerous person in the world is an idealist with a machine gun.
  
  
• There are no rules of architecture for castles in the air.
  
  
• What this world needs is a good 50 billion dollar, 100 Megahurt definite-kill plasma weapon.
  
  
• My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
  
  
• In ancient times, they had no statistics, so they had to fall back on lies. – Canadian writer Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
  
  
• I grew up on “Star Trek.” I believe in the final frontier. – Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who describes himself as a “Trekkie,” but who has criticized NASA for losing focus and failing to inspire
  
  
• As a man, I do not like visiting our family doctor. Like many general care practitioners, he has a fancy sheepskin diploma on the wall and a box of latex gloves on the counter. The diploma apparently authorizes him to use the gloves any way he sees fit. – Humorist Bud Mortenson
  
  
• We see the universe the way it is because if it were different, we would not be here to observe it. – ENGLISH THEORETICAL PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING
  
  
• There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a “hottest part” implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. – AMERICAN PHYSICIST RICHARD DAVISSON (1922-2004)
  
  
• If God meant for us to fly, he would have given us propellers on our noses. – Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
  
  
• It's a lose-lose situation for people and dolphins. – Lori Marino of Emory University on a study that shows “dolphin-assisted therapy,” in which patients swim with the marine animals, provides no therapeutic benefit for humans and poses a risk of injury or infection to the dolphins
  
  

• Mark Twain once said. " You can grow up to be an idiot or you can become a politician, but then I regress".

  
  
  

 

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