There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating:
people who know absolutely everything, and people who know
absolutely nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements
for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
-- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry
about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic
engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the
unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
-- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by
looking up something and finding something else on the way.
-- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
If you wish to be happy for one hour
- get intoxicated
if you wish to be happy for one day
- sell all your investments
if you wish to be happy for eight days
- get married
if you wish to be happy for ever
- learn to fish
email signature in an incoming private email
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part
of every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
-- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - ), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing
at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at
the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill
"infinite loop _see_ loop, infinite" discovered in Index of Borland Pascal Language Guide
-- ref. in email signature received from Simon Tatham (putty)
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years
without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to
be admired in sheep.
-- Alan Patrick Herbert
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being
right - especially when one is right.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful,
when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty
much depend on the weather.
-- Michael Pritchard
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never
were;
and I say, "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950),
"Back to Methuselah"
(1921), part 1, act 1
The way I see it, there's so much love and beauty in world,
and someone has to balance that shit out.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-13-04
"Wir können nicht davon leben, daß wir uns gegenseitig die Haare schneiden."
--der bayerische Wirtschaftsminister Otto Wiesheu
... zitiert in einer m.E. bemerkenswerten Analyse "Defektes Deutschland"
von Paul Schulmeister in der Europäischen Rundschau (Paul Lendvai),
Ausgabe Sommer, 2004/3, S. 31
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them,
are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
-- Albert Guinon
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