A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

-Robert Frost

No matter how strong your stomach...
Eat as few Cockroaches as possible.

Carl Sandberg.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Unknown author.

He who wants a rose, must respect the thorn.

....Persian Proverb.

If you expect the unexpected...
Then how can it be unexpected?

Ziggy

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

-- Jane Wagner

Those who become part of the larger picture...don't appear smaller.

"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
-- Dan Rather

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Anonymous

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

Franklin P. Jones

When you reach a fork in the road. take it.

Yogi Berra

We dance around the circle and suppose....
The answer sits inside and knows.

To say a human being is nothing but molecules and atoms is like saying a Shakespeare play is nothing but words and letters.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
Albert Einstein....(From a billboard outside of Harvard Medical School.)

If you think the cost of education is high, consider the cost of ignorance.
from a bumber sticker.........

The one who says an experiment can't be done, should not interrupt the one doing it.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one else has seen,
But to think what nobody yet has thought ..... about that which everybody sees."

Schopenhauer

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

"Never let your schooling interfer with your education."

--Mark Twain.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

You really shouldn't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."

-- Isaac Asimov

A college lecture is the process whereby the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

......from a bumper sticker

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

......Albert Einstein

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"

--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."

--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".

--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

-- Bill Gates, 1981

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

"People are DNA's way of making more DNA."

--Edward O. Wilson, 1975

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