Useless computers

July 23, 2010
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso.
 

Getting used to math

July 22, 2010

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

-- John Von Neumann
 

Einstein and relativity

July 21, 2010
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
-- Albert Einstein
 

Be unreasonable

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
 

Snake trivia

July 18, 2010
Q: Why don't snakes have balls?

A: Because without legs, they can't dance.
 

Don't worry

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
 

Ancient statistics

July 16, 2010

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

-- Stephen Leacock.

 

Classification

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.
 

Leaving my body

July 14, 2010

When I die I'm going to leave my body to science fiction.
-- Steven Wright


 

Coping with mathematics

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
 

Blog Archive