It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be.
-- Kleppner & Kolenhow (An Introduction to Mechanics)
Monday, March 31, 2014
Quote of the Day
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Quote of the Day
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
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And then I was confronted with N'Sync, Aerosmith and Britney Spears to*gether*. The trifecta from *Hell*.
-- Lewis Black
Friday, March 28, 2014
Quote of the Day
We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department.
-- Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Quote of the Day
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Quote of the Day
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, March 24, 2014
Quote of the Day
The War Prayer: "O Lord our God, help us to tear their bodies to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded."
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, March 23, 2014
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
-- Dave Barry
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Quote of the Day
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein
Friday, March 21, 2014
Quote of the Day
When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Quote of the Day
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
-- Gore Vidal
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Quote of the Day
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
-- Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Quote of the Day
All things dull and ugly, all creatures short and squat;
All things rude and nasty, the Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons, each little wasp that stings;
He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous, all evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous, the Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet, each beastly little squid.
Who made the spiky urchin? Who made the shark? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous, all pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all. Amen.
-- Monty Python
Monday, March 17, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Quote of the Day
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
-- Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Quote of the Day
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
-- Mark Twain
Week in Review
Friday, March 14, 2014
Quote of the Day
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-- Peter Ustinov
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Quote of the Day
You men, the next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergymans rate.
-- George Carlin
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Quote of the Day
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
-- Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Quote of the Day
I'm not impressed by what college your kid is going to. George Bush went to Yale. The End.
-- Bill Maher
Monday, March 10, 2014
Quote of the Day
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
-- Dave Barry
Sunday, March 09, 2014
Quote of the Day
It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, March 08, 2014
Quote of the Day
I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.
-- Charles Darwin
Friday, March 07, 2014
Quote of the Day
No proper program contains an indication which as an operator-applied occurrence identifies an operator-defining occurrence which as an indication-applied occurrence identifies an indication-defining occurrence different from the one identified by the given indication as an indication-applied occurrence.
-- ALGOL 68 Report
Thursday, March 06, 2014
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Quote of the Day
Yeah man, I tell ya what, man. That dang ol' Internet, man. You just go on there and point and click. Talk about W-W-dot-W-com. An' lotsa nekkid chicks on there, man. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. It's real easy, man.
-- Boomhauer
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Quote of the Day
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
-- Groucho Marx
Monday, March 03, 2014
Sunday, March 02, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Whoopee" was such a beautiful word and then Bob Eubanks had to go and cheapen it.
-- James Urbaniak (via Twitter)
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Quote of the Day
The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.
-- Joseph Campbell (The Mythic Image)
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