Quotes

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Here are some of my favorites:

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" -Isaac Asimov

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." -Bertrand Russell

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'." -Sir Arthur Eddington
("Sounds like something you'd say" - my friend Melissa)

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." -Robin Williams

"Think deeply of simple things." -Dr. Arnold Ross

"One should not aim at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand." -Quintilian

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." -M. Cartmill

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Lewis Carroll

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Pablo Picasso

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -E. W. Dijkstra

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." -Henry J. Kaiser

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." -Robert Benchley

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." -Winston Churchill

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein