The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004 Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family. Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05 Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. Larry Wall No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. Richard Feynman, Letter to Koichi Mano US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005 English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - ) Courage atrophies from lack of use. Unknown Quotations by unknown authors For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses. Dante, The Divine Comedy Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance. C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |