Some Choice Quotes
Sometimes, when you need inspiration, nothing helps better than by reading a great quote. The wise words of those that came before you can continue to make a difference long after the original speaker is gone.
Dr. Gabriel Robins of the Computer Science Dept. at the University of Virginia has a website chock full of them. Here are some of my faves:
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
2 Comments:
I particularly like the one by Shaw. The one by Wright is also quite interesting. I think the interenet and blogs, ahem, have a part in that statement.
If you don't like my blog, don't read it. :p
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