July 23, 2010
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso.
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy
July 22, 2010
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- John Von Neumann
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy
July 21, 2010
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
-- Albert Einstein
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy
July 19, 2010
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy
July 18, 2010
Q: Why don't snakes have balls?
A: Because without legs, they can't dance.
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor
July 17, 2010
Don't worry about bitin' off more'n you can chew; your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger'n you think.
-- Will Rogers
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy
July 16, 2010
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
-- Stephen Leacock.
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor
July 15, 2010
Inanimate
objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories;
those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker.
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor
July 14, 2010
When I die I'm going to leave my body to science fiction.
-- Steven Wright
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor
July 13, 2010
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not
make messes in the house.
-- Robert Heinlein
Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy