| Miscellaneous Quotes (page 1) | |||||
| Jules de Gaultier | |||||
| Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. | |||||
| 1996 Coca-Cola Company annual report | |||||
| A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianty emerged. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. | |||||
| Plutarch | |||||
| The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. | |||||
| Aldous Huxley | |||||
| All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. | |||||
| Douglas Adams The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy | |||||
| ‘You know, said Arthur, ‘it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.’ ‘Why, what did she tell you?’ ‘I don’t know, I didn’t listen.’ | |||||
| "From the World According to Garp" by John Irving | |||||
| "If you are careful," Garp wrote, " If you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product that you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time, and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore can keep a person who tries very hard, sane." | |||||
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| Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. | |||||
| Richard P. Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society on December 29, 1959. | |||||
| Human cells are very tiny, but they are very active. They manufacture various substances, they walk around, they wiggle, they make you ill, and they help you recover. Also, they store information. Consider the possibility that we, too, can make a very small thing that does what we want; that we can manufacture an object that maneuvers at that level." | |||||
| Old Chinese saying | |||||
| "If something moves, eat it! If it doesn't, sell it!" | |||||
| Dan Bricklin - the father of the electronic spreadsheet | |||||
| "One concept of Judaism that greatly impressed me was Tikun Olam. According to one story, when God made the world, he left it a bit incomplete. Instead of making bread - so the story goes - God gave us wheat; instead of bricks, we have only clay, and we have to bake the bricks ourselves so we are partners in completing the art of creation. That sense of individual responsibility - the need to ask, how will I participate? - stuck with me." . | |||||
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