In lieu of a real update... quotes

Feb 14, 2005 12:17

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Quotes of the Day for February 13, 2005
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands
afterwards.
-- Robert Heinlein

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist
who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
-- Bill Vaughan

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
-- Thomas A. Edison

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-- Friedrich Engels

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Quotes of the Day for February 12, 2005
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
-- Leo Tolstoy

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
-- Eve Babitz

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
-- Alfred E. Wiggam

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