"It is better to debate a question without settling it
than to settle a question without debating it."
- Joseph Joubert
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Who Watches
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-Roman poet, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, know in English as Juvenal:
which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?
-Roman poet, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, know in English as Juvenal:
which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?
Friday, April 22, 2011
Politicians
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
-George Bernard Shaw
-George Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Who Bites
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wrong Cure
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
-Henry Ford
-Henry Ford
Awards
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Water Everywhere
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
-Ambrose Bierce
-Ambrose Bierce
Life Long Learning
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
More Means Faster
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
-Wernher von Braun
-Wernher von Braun
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