"Who is General Failure and why is he reading Drive C?"
"Only Gossip travels faster than E-mail"
Source unknown
"Reason can answer questions,
but imagination has to ask them."
-- Ralph N. Gerard
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,
as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison."
-- Albert Einstein
"What gets measured is not always important, and what is important cannot
always be measured."
-- Albert Einstein
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the
old ones."
-- John Maynard Keyes, 1936
"Hitherto the philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various
ways. The point, however, is to change it."
-- Karl Marx
"A fact in science is not a mere fact but an instance"
-- Betrand Russell
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons"
-- Popular Mechanics, 1949
The first myth of management is that it exists.
-- Heller's Law
"No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your
knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future."
-- Ian E. Wilson
Known sources
Damien Keown <d.keown@gold.ac.uk>
"The only time Socrates submitted to 'peer review' he was forced to
drink hemlock"
- Damien Keown, HyperJournal List moderator
Mike McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
"Postmodern society is the society of computers, information, scientific
knowledge, advanced technology, and rapid change due to new advances in
science and technology."
-- Postmodern Theory, Best & Kellner
"Intelligence is an underlying organisational principle of the universe.
The 'logos principle' is hidden and perceptible only to the intelligence."
-- Heraclitus
Jim Michmerhuizen <jamzen@world.std.com>:
- There are more different kinds of people in the world than there
are people...
- Actions speak louder than words -- but not as clearly
- If our software were really hardware independent -- we wouldn't need
computers at all.
- Ideas are cheap; Good ideas don't cost any more than lousy ones.
It's distinguishing them that's expensive.
<michael9@cs.mun.ca>
"Proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing," says God.
"But you have given us proof," says man, "Therefore you do not exist. QED."
"Oh, my," says God, and disappears in a puff of logic.
Bruce Hanna <bhanna@piweb.com>
"To know, and not to act, is not to know."
-- Wang Yang Ming, Chinese General, 880 A.D.
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory."
-- W. Edwards Deming, 1990
Jack W. Patterson <vjwpa@calgary.chevron.com>
"It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover"
-- Henri Poincare
R. IVAN BLANCO < Blanco@bu4090.barry.edu>
"Las naciones marchan hacia el termino de su grandeza, con el mismo
paso que camina su educacion."
"The nations march toward their greatness at the same pace as their
educational systems evolve." -- Simon Bolivar
Frank Scavo <fscavo@ix.netcom.com>
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
<cbwillis@netcom.com>
"Values are the infrastructure upon which civilization will be reinvented."
-- CBW
Andrew Treloar <Treloar@deakin.edu.au>
"To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire
and to answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar"
-- Samuel Johnson, Chapter VII, _The History of Rasselas, Prince of
Abissinia_
Susan Kinney <skinney@MAIL.MBA.WFU.EDU>
"Rats & roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and
demand; it
is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice
& mercy."
-- Wendell Berry