Archive for the ‘Quote’ Category

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Friday, June 25th, 2010

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Thursday, June 24th, 2010

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent. - Raoul Bott

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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant

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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in. - Unknown

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Monday, June 21st, 2010

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. - Sir Arthur Eddington

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Friday, June 18th, 2010

The sun shines even when it is cloudy. - Albanian proverb

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Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I’d written both of them. - Douglas Adams

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. - Henrik Tikkanen

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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. - Harry Turtledove

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Monday, June 14th, 2010

I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later. - Mitch Hedberg