Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Samuel Johnson

 "All knowledge is of itself of some value. 
There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I 
would not rather know it than not."
Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Stanley Kubrick

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, 
and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick

Monday, November 28, 2011

P. Benchley

"You don't have to swim faster than the shark, 
just faster than the guy next to you."
P. Benchley

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Arthur Schopenhauer

"All truth passes through three stages. 
First, it is ridiculed. 
Second, it is violently opposed. 
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

Monday, November 21, 2011

Ludwig Wittgenstein

 “I don’t know why we are here. But, I’m pretty 
sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Oscar Wilde

 "I am so clever that sometimes I don't 
understand a single word of what I am saying."
 Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; 
and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln

Monday, November 14, 2011

Vladimir Zworykin

 "I hate what they've done to my child...
I would never let my own children watch it."
[On his feelings about watching television.]
Vladimir Zworykin

Friday, November 11, 2011

Aristotle

"No great genius has ever existed 
without a strain of madness."
Aristotle

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Terry Pratchett


"Multiple exclamation marks are a 
sure sign of a diseased mind."
Terry Pratchett

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen


"I did not think I investigated...It seemed at first 
a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly
something new something unrecorded...There is 
much to do, and I am busy, very busy"
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
(First observer of X-rays made on 8 Nov 1895)

Friday, November 4, 2011

Robert Anton Wilson

"If you think you know what the hell is going on, 
you're probably full of shit."
Robert Anton Wilson

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Ashleigh Brilliant


"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
Ashleigh Brilliant

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Bobcat Goldthwait


"If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me instead."
Bobcat Goldthwait

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

George Bernard Shaw


"The power of accurate observation is commonly 
called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw