Matthew Ernest: Quotes

All about me

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:42:27 GMT

Sydney Smith. "You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave." [Quotes of the Day]

In that case, I must be a genius

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 06:09:40 GMT

Aldous Huxley. "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." [Quotes of the Day]

A lesson I wish my thesis advisor could learn

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:24:13 GMT

Al Franken. "It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Pretty tasty

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 06:24:43 GMT

"As a civilization we've never had huge amounts of food before. Used to be, in the winter you had to eat dried salmon or figs or grandma," says futurist Bruce Sterling, author of the new book Tomorrow Now. "I don't think there's ever been a society that when presented with an endless stream of free cheeseburgers would have said, 'No, thanks, I'll go back to my gruel here.' "

0 for 2

Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:31:09 GMT

Jimmy Demaret. "Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at." [Quotes of the Day]

Just because I like it

Fri, 03 Jan 2003 07:10:29 GMT

THE POINT by Bryan O'Sullivan

you could spend an hour counting the petals in a flower

it might take you a year to count the veins in each petal

if you spent ten lifetimes, maybe you could count its cells

but you'd have completely missed the point

you fuckhead

Laughing at geniuses

Wed, 25 Dec 2002 09:34:58 GMT

Carl Sagan. "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." [Quotes of the Day]

Good, timely advice

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:09:14 GMT

William Shakespeare. "Exit, pursued by a bear." [Quotes of the Day]

If the shoe fits, bang it.

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:49:42 GMT

Nikita Khrushchev. "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." [Quotes of the Day]

Be afraid

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 09:44:02 GMT

Isaac Asimov. "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." [Quotes of the Day]

See, another quote about doing nothing!

Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:30:37 GMT

Sydney Smith. "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Cutting the big guy down to size

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:08:52 GMT

Abraham Lincoln. "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." [Quotes of the Day]

In a way, it's relieving to know that not every thing out of Lincoln's mouth was a pearl of wisdom.

Eraser

Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:22:37 GMT

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site." Frank Lloyd Wright

Dorothy Parker is less-than-three!

Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:59:58 GMT

Dorothy Parker. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." [Quotes of the Day]

I am afraid of turning into a grown-up

Mon, 09 Sep 2002 04:54:09 GMT

Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." [Quotes of the Day]

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 20:56:41 GMT

Grace Murray Hopper. "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Doing bad on both counts

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 21:26:41 GMT

M. Cartmill. "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." [Quotes of the Day]

Pet Theories

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:58:42 GMT

Konrad Lorenz. "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." [Quotes of the Day]

I also belive that proving the obvious is an important activity.

Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:49:10 GMT

Mark Twain. "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." [Quotes of the Day]

It could never happen!

Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:01:49 GMT

unknown. "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons." [Quotes of the Day]

Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:47:29 GMT

Matthew Trump. "Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Advice

Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:47:57 GMT

"Why, of course the people don't want war ... but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." --Hermann Goering

Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:05:06 GMT

Friedrich Nietzsche. "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." [Quotes of the Day]

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:35:21 GMT

Seen on a t-shirt last night:. "At a cellular level...I'm really quite busy." Ha! [evhead]

(Out of) Focus

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:22:10 GMT

Robert J. Shiller. "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Robert J. Sawyer. "Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

The real trick is noticing that these are the same states.