June 2003
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
# Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
# Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity,
if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
# Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,
and wiser than the one that comes after it.
# George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
# Plato
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
# Aristotle
May 2003
Brevity is the soul of wit.
# William Shakespeare
Poetry is simply the most beautiful,
impressive and widely effective mode of saying things,
and hence their importance.
# George Arnold
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
# Keats
All is for the best in the best of the possible worlds.
# Francois Voltaire
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man.
# Francis Bacon
