Quotation of the day

"And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

-- Vice President Dan Quayle, talking to NASA employees, 9/5/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Originally posted by ivanhoe

"Men willingly believe what they wish."

Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), De Bello Gallico

Originally posted by royalchicken
Numerological contribution:

Caesar died at 56, as did Hitler. Isoruko Yamamoto's name means '56' because that was the age at which his father conceived him. What can we conclude 😛?

Originally posted by kirksey957
We can conclude that if you brought this up in your interview, you will end up in an obscure junior college in a remote section of the US and not be at Cambridge. 😉

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"

Jean Kerr

"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks."

Totie Fields

That's cool😀

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)


Happy New Year everybody !

"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

'Saying that mathematics is a tool for doing science is like saying the Internet is a place to buy boots. Both are true, but are so closed-minded as to have no function whatsoever in defining these things.'

~Soon to be on the 'maths' page of my website

why does beer get warm and coffee gets cold?

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."

Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien