Quote of the Day

Information becomes fragmented, knowledge does not. What causes fragmentation in information is scholasticism.
:: Ramitini

Quote of the Day

What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him, should be a matter of no importance.
:: Oscar Wilde

Thought For the Day

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
:: Andre Malraux

Yeah, Mine Too

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
:: Abraham Lincoln

No News is Still Good News

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
:: David Brinkley

Quote of the Day

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
:: Howard Aiken

It's a Jungle Out There

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
:: John Kenneth Galbraith

Now You Know

The secret of being boring is to say everything.
:: Voltaire

Quote of the Day

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
:: Jerry Seinfeld

Don't Let Everything In

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
:: Terry Pratchett

Find Your Nurturing Side

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
:: Demetri Martin

Well, That Should Be Easy

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
:: Confucius

Hear, Hear!

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
:: Hansell B. Duckett

The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
:: Confucius

Quote of the Day

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
:: Henry David Thoreau

Roll Call

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
:: Theodore Roosevelt

We Really Haven't Learned

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
:: Jay Leno

That's What Friends Are For

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure is an Option

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
:: Thomas A. Edison

Quote of the Day

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
:: Mark Twain

Welcome to my World

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
:: Scott Adams

The Truth Hurts

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
:: Ecclesiastes 1:18

Thought For the Day

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Garbage In, Garbage Out

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
:: Pierre Gallois

You First. No, You First!

He was a bold man, that first ate an oyster.
:: Jonathan Swift

Quote of the Day

What appears to be truth is a worldly distortion of objective truth.
:: Hakim Sanai

Hardship is Relative

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
:: Albert Einstein

Thought for the Day

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
:: Einstein