Quotable Quotes

Some things that I find useful to keep in mind.

• There is nothing wrong with being a dinosaur, as long as you don't mind going extinct.
• Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. -- Neal Boortz
Be ready at a moments notice to argue for the unpopular view, for by definition there are enough arguing for the other view.
• Progress results from people taking unpopular positions
• If it's important, read it again/do it again.
• If you think an education is expensive, try ignorance. (The Capital Times, 1974; versions of this theme existed since 1874)
• We are all merely specs, the aggregate of which shall be the History of the Universe
• Perfect is not a practical word. Perfection...its a moving target that's always just a little bit ahead of you.
• It is not necessary to try everything at least once. Just don't judge that which you do not try.
• If you feel that something being asked of you is unreasonable then you should have the guts to stand up for yourself and just say no.
• We all perform at our best only when we feel that we are slightly threatened. (Amir Atiya)
• The only reason we yearn to live is because of the finality and inevitability of death.
• A picture is trully worth a thousand words.
• Necessity is often the mother of invention but many a break through has been the result of the pleasurable intellectual doodlings of a curious mind. (paraphrased from A. N. Whitehead)
• A teacher affects eternity, for no one can tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
• The way that can be walked is not the perfect way. The word that can be said is not the perfect word.
• If it weren't for that infamous last minute, nothing would ever get done.
• To prove something to someone, it only suffices to convince them that it is true.
• All roads lead to Rome. The key issue is how fast do they get you there?
• We are all regularized by our parents.
• When solving a problem, it is not necessary, but sometimes easier to solve a more general problem.
• A mathematician who assumes nothing also proves nothing.
• Natura non fecit saltum.
• In hope we derive pleasure, even if those hopes turned out in vain. (Egyptian saying)
• Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the things that you did do.
• Don't ask a man on a sinking ship to swim to shore; send him some help.
• A curious human condition is curiosity: we try even though sometimes we fail.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to a changing environment. The unreasonable man changes his environment to suit him. We are indebted to the unreasonable man, for therein lies all progress.
• If you are about to kill someone, there is no harm in being polite. (Churchill)
• Is it better to have well being for everyone with inequality, or suffering for everyone with equality? (Churchill)

•	There is nothing wrong with being a dinosaur, as long as you don't mind going extinct.
•	Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. -- Neal Boortz
	Be ready at a moments notice to argue for the unpopular view, for by definition there are enough arguing for the other view.
•	Progress results from people taking unpopular positions
•	If it's important, read it again/do it again.
•	If you think an education is expensive, try ignorance. (The Capital Times, 1974; versions of this theme existed since 1874)
•	We are all merely specs, the aggregate of which shall be the History of the Universe
•	Perfect is not a practical word. Perfection...its a moving target that's always just a little bit ahead of you.
•	It is not necessary to try everything at least once. Just don't judge that which you do not try.
•	If you feel that something being asked of you is unreasonable then you should have the guts to stand up for yourself and just say no.
•	We all perform at our best only when we feel that we are slightly threatened. (Amir Atiya)
•	The only reason we yearn to live is because of the finality and inevitability of death.
•	A picture is trully worth a thousand words.
•	Necessity is often the mother of invention but many a break through has been the result of the pleasurable intellectual doodlings of a curious mind. (paraphrased from A. N. Whitehead)
•	A teacher affects eternity, for no one can tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
•	The way that can be walked is not the perfect way. The word that can be said is not the perfect word.
•	If it weren't for that infamous last minute, nothing would ever get done.
•	To prove something to someone, it only suffices to convince them that it is true.
•	All roads lead to Rome. The key issue is how fast do they get you there?
•	We are all regularized by our parents.
•	When solving a problem, it is not necessary, but sometimes easier to solve a more general problem.
•	A mathematician who assumes nothing also proves nothing.
•	Natura non fecit saltum.
•	In hope we derive pleasure, even if those hopes turned out in vain. (Egyptian saying)
•	Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the things that you did do.
•	Don't ask a man on a sinking ship to swim to shore; send him some help.
•	A curious human condition is curiosity: we try even though sometimes we fail.
•	The reasonable man adapts himself to a changing environment. The unreasonable man changes his environment to suit him. We are indebted to the unreasonable man, for therein lies all progress.
•	If you are about to kill someone, there is no harm in being polite. (Churchill)
•	Is it better to have well being for everyone with inequality, or suffering for everyone with equality? (Churchill)