SCIENCE AND MATH

Resistance is not futile. It is voltage divided by current.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. I've always heard that notion attributed to Napoleon.

But in honor of Heinlein, I offer the corollary: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

Arthur C. Clarke's third law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Pierrehumbert, like many others, takes a darker view. “We are quite capable of doing stupid things.”

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has its limits.

'The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."' - Asimov

Life is whim and wonder, women - Warren

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing: if you can fake that, you've got it made - Marx (Groucho)

Government is like fire - a dangerous servant and a fearful master - George Washington

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all other forms of government. - Winston Churchill

Aldous Huxley: "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin

"Your right to hold an opinion is not being contested. Your expectation that it be taken seriously is." -- Jason Thompson

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” - H. G. Wells, 1904

Reverend Billy - "If god had wanted us to eat waffles, he'd have given us lips that look like snowshoes."

'Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition. I can do little else in my present position.' - Jack Horkheimer 1938 - 2010

The motto of the Industrial Revolution,"If BRUTE FORCE doesn't work, you need to use more of it."

The larger the circle of our knowledge the greater the circumference of our ignorance. Einstein

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Einstein

Inconceivable: To quote Inigo Montoya from "The Princess Bride": "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Karl Popper : Knowledge is the set of yet-undisproven theories.

“Examine what is said, not who speaks” Arabian Proverb

"The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community" Carl Jung,

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison.

“Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ” -John Erskine

Einstein said "the splitting of the atom changed everything, save man's mode of thinking"

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a Dark side, and it holds the universe together.

As Bucky Fuller used to say (roughly) "If you get really good at solving problems things don't get easier. You get harder problems."

"You can observe a lot by just watching" Yogi Berra, 20th century philosopher