Today Quotes
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultier
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.W.C. Fields
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Horace Walpole
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.Bobby Knight
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.Walter Anderson
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.John Ciardi
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Oscar Wilde