quotes
As far as quote-makers go, for numbers it's just about gotta be Gandhi. I guess it cold be Shakespeare, or the guy they think wrote his plays.
To digress, "Scholars have always been puzzled as to how Shakespeare wrote plays requiring detailed geographical and political knowledge and advanced skills in reading Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Italian sources, yet ceased his formal education at age 12.":
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/unmasked-the-real-shakespeare/2005/10/05/1128191785837.html
OK, back on topic. I like this one of Gandhi's
"Seven Blunders of the World"
"I think it would be a good idea."
Mind you, when he saw the following scene from the movie Bad Santa, he barely raised a snigger. Apparently.
Kid: Your beard's not real.
Willie: It was real, but I got sick and all the hair fell out.
Kid: How come?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Claus?
Willie: Actually it was her sister.
To digress, "Scholars have always been puzzled as to how Shakespeare wrote plays requiring detailed geographical and political knowledge and advanced skills in reading Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Italian sources, yet ceased his formal education at age 12.":
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/unmasked-the-real-shakespeare/2005/10/05/1128191785837.html
OK, back on topic. I like this one of Gandhi's
"Seven Blunders of the World"
- 1. Wealth without work
- 2. Pleasure without conscience
- 3. Knowledge without character
- 4. Commerce without morality
- 5. Science without humanity
- 6. Worship without sacrifice
- 7. Politics without principle
"I think it would be a good idea."
Mind you, when he saw the following scene from the movie Bad Santa, he barely raised a snigger. Apparently.
Kid: Your beard's not real.
Willie: It was real, but I got sick and all the hair fell out.
Kid: How come?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Claus?
Willie: Actually it was her sister.
posted by Unknown at 8:57 pm
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I heard a nice science quote yesterday, from George Box: "All models are wrong, but some models are useful."
My favourite science quote is still Lev Landu:
"Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt"
Not pithy, perhaps, but i liked the quote in Kary Mullis' (PCR dude) whimsical and very human Nobel Prize lecture:
"There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for "melancholy of relationships past." It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your grain, to listen to country music."
http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1993/mullis-lecture.html
Laurence Hurst, when tipsy:
When someone says "emergent property", what they're really saying is that they're stupid.
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