Words from Dave

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

-Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken (1874-1963)

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one--to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.

-Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain), What is Man?

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

-Irish Proverb

There are three kinds of lies...
Lies, Damned lies, and statistics.

-Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain)

Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.

-Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain)

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.

-Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain)

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.

-George Carlin

Was macht ein Mann? was macht ein Mann? der zwischen Mensch und Tier nicht unterscheiden kann.

-Rammstein

If the good lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates.

-Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka)

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

-Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka)

You should never, never doubt what nobody's sure about.

-Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka)

A short man never got any taller by sawing the legs off of a tall man.

-George Bush

Mastery of UNIX, like mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear, but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT.

-Thomas Scoville

Once… in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.

-W. C. Fields, "My Little Chickadee"

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue; you sell him a whole new life.

-Christopher Morley

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

-Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.

-Albert Einstein

God is slick, but he ain't mean.

-Albert Einstein

God doesn't play dice with the universe!

-Albert Einstein

Common sense is the layer of prejudice laid down in our minds as children.

-Albert Einstein

There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory.

-Albert Einstein

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

-Albert Einstein(1919)

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

-Albert Einstein(1930)

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

-Albert Einstein

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing

-Gertrude Stein

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

-Oscar Wilde

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

-Henri Frédéric Amiel

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

-Denis Diderot

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered-either by themselves or by others.

-Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain)

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

-Arthur Schopenhauer