Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Post je objavljen 26.05.2010. u 05:30 sati.