Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A thing without a limit

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
- Konrad Adenauer

Say it loud

 What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.
- Munthe

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Money and happiness

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

The joys and frustrations of math

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Think!

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
- Thomas J. (Jr.) Watson

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Let ideas die for you

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell

Evil is who evil does

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.