Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Quote of the Day
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-- Richard P. Feynman
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Quote of the Day
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
-- Lenny Bruce
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Quote of the Day
People who think of videos as an art form are probably the same people who think Cabbage Patch Dolls are a revolutionary form of soft sculpture.
-- Frank Zappa
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Quote of the Day
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
-- Richard P. Feynman
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Quote of the Day
Risch's decision procedure for integration, not surprisingly, uses a recursion on the number and type of the extensions from the rational functions needed to represent the integrand. Although the algorithm follows and critically depends upon the appropriate structure of the input, as in the case of multivariate factorization, we cannot claim that the algorithm is a natural one. In fact, the creator of differential algebra, Ritt, committed suicide in the early 1950's, largely, it is claimed, because few paid attention to his work. Probably he would have received more attention had he obtained the algorithm as well.
-- Joel Moses, Algorithms and Complexity, ed. J.F. Traub
Monday, October 21, 2013
Quote of the Day
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
-- Dave Barry
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Quote of the Day
Bart, a woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Quote of the Day
...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can't be perfect of course; you may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.
-- Carl Sagan, "The Burden of Skepticism," Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Quote of the Day
I love timbersports! They combine the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and the threat of amputation!
-- Stephen Colbert (via Twitter)
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Quote of the Day
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
-- Henny Youngman
Monday, October 14, 2013
Quote of the Day
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.
-- James Randi
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Quote of the Day
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
-- Umberto Eco
Friday, October 11, 2013
Quote of the Day
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
-- Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Quote of the Day
We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme. It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today. Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive. We are sorry if this impression has come across.
-- Monty Python
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Monday, October 07, 2013
Quote of the Day
The lesson is: Our God is vengeful! O spiteful one, show me who to smite and they shall be smoten!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Quote of the Day
And thank you most of all for nuclear power, which is yet to cause a single proven fatality, at least in this country.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Quote of the Day
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Week in Review
Friday, October 04, 2013
Quote of the Day
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Stephen Wright
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Quote of the Day
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
-- Terry Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment)
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Quote of the Day
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Quote of the Day
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
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