QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, JOHN D. BARROW, EE Cummings, Mark Twain, George Herbert, Louis Lefebvre, Larry Niven, Paul Claudel, Antoine de St. Exupery, C. A. R. Hoare, Sir Winston Churchill, Stephen Leacock.

• There was no “before” the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
  –ENGLISH COSMOLOGIST AND AUTHOR JOHN D. BARROW
  
  
• Listen. There's a hell of a good universe next door. Let's go.
  –EE Cummings, American poet (1894-1962)
  
  

• "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
  -Mark Twain
  
  
• "You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows."
  -George Herbert
  
  
• Save the environment, plant a Bush back in Texas.
  -unknown, but the best kind of fertalizer known to man
  
  
• Ever danced with the devil in the pale serverlight?
  I tried to, but he kept stepping on my toes. Damn hooves...
  -unknown
  
  
• That explains all the dead cats around my apartment complex.
  -unknown
  
  
• They would actually perch on the barbed wire and wait for the minefields to give them chopped antelope.
  -Louis Lefebvre, on the behavior of vultures during Zimbabwe's civil war in the 1970s. Lefebvre created an IQ test for birds, which ranks crows and jays as smartest.
  
  
• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
  –Larry Niven, science fiction author
  
  
• A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report.
  –Author unknown
  
  
• Some dying utterances are cryptic and fraught with mystery, while others ask questions more to the point. Take Paul Claudel (1868-1955), a French poet best known for verse dramas, whose themes were often faith-based: “Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?”
  
  
• “You know you’ve achived perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away”
  -Antoine de St. Exupery
  
  
• “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficencies. The first method is far more difficult.
  C. A. R. Hoare
  
  
• “It is no use saying “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
  -Sir Winston Churchill
  
  
• Why is a telephone's keypad arranged differently than a calculator's?
  
  
• “Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.”
  –Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
  
  

 

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