“ Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. ”
unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”
Mark Twain
“ Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head. ”
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary
“ It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. ”
Dame Rose Macaulay
“ The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. ”
G. K. Chesterton
“ Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ”
Sir Francis Bacon
“ Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse. ”
Chilo
“ It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t match what you dreamed it would be. ”
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04
“ He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ”
Ian McEwan
“ It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s hope. It was what I wanted to be. ”
Lois McMaster Bujold