Musings

Quotes:

  • “Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs.” -Bill Gates
  • “We don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything” -Thomas Edison
  • “We are involved in risk management. The question to me is: ‘What do you have to do to make a successful attack so complex that an intelligent enemy would recognize that the odds of success are too low?’” -Jon Stokes, TSA
  • “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.” - Anonymous
  • “It’s today!” said Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.
  • “Worry contradicts an essential value of our Christian faith - the belief and trust that God has a plan for our lives.” - BA
  • “Do we seek another to assuage our loneliness or simply to find someone to be lonely with?” -BA
  • “Accomplishment is its own reward, pride obscures that.” - Kurt Halsey Fredericksen
  • “If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.” - Richard Feynman
  • “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” -Richard Feynman
  • “Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.” - Richard Feynman
  • “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” -Richard Feynman
  • “After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box. ” - Italian proverb
  • “As humans, we are incapable of separating belief from fact. In our minds, the two are one. The mind works on assumptions, guesses, and predictions. This very principle is what allows us to operate in a world which we fundamentally do not understand - it is how we adapt to the unknown.” - BA“
  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” - A. Einstein
  • “If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.” - /. Sig
  • “My inner creativity screams for release, languishing in a cage of my own creation.” - Nizo
  • “If I am not working toward something that, upon its completion, obsoletes the necessity for my role, I should not be pursuing that something in the first place.” - BA (theorem of recursive advancement)
  • “No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.” - Winston Churchill
  • “Nobody ever gives you permission to become an artist.” - Emile Norman
  • “Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and dreams, try to love the questions themselves.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “You are still innocent until proven guilty. What’s changed is what they do to innocent people.” - /. Comment (notnAP)
  • “In general, human beings are defined by their needs and individuals by their wants.” - eHarmony
  • “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” - Thoreau
  • “Atheism is a religion to the same extent that not collecting stamps is a hobby.” - /. sig (thirty-seven)
  • “Research is the transformation of money into knowledge. Innovation is the transformation of knowledge into money.” -Unknown
  • “Truly smart, creative engineers and scientists don’t need to find jobs - they *create* jobs.” - JSBiff (/.)
  • “That’s what art does, it trains you to see.” - Janelle Holcombe
  • “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘That’s funny…’” -Isaac Asimov
  • “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Curiosity’s the essence of human existence.” - Eugene Cernan
  • “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” ~ Henry Ford
  • “Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.” -Mike Adams

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