These are inferior quotes and sayings which, in the distant past, I considered good enough to grace my home page. They have been superceded. (Never have children. You too can be superceded.)
The unattributed ones are by me.
| Jay : old quotes |
"In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined." -- Bruce Alberts, quoted on the front page of the New York Times, 11 December 1998
Sense random practices and act kind of beautiful.
If there's anything as safe as medieval armor, it's philosophy. Try to find the hermeneutically-sealed kind so you don't have to see out.
"Mammalian Sin3 is also a co-repressor
for the Mad/Max complex."
-- from an article about molecular biology
in Nature, 1 May 1997, page 17
"You aren't helped by the fact that there are electrons out there because most of them are horrible." -- overheard conversation
When a room and an anteroom come together, they annihilate and create knick-knacks.
"Today one is hard-pressed to find anyone who believes
that the world ended on the morning of 30 June 1908."
-- Keven Zahnle, Nature
"Argue with smart man, can't win.
Argue with stupid man, can't stop."
-- Vietnamese proverb, translated by Linh Dinh
IBM has always known that you should not fold, spindle, or mutilate, but Apple Computer is only now learning about Spindler.
The great thing about history is that it's over.
Humans value creativity because they don't have much.
When cryptography is outlawed, everyone will have cryptography.
"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain." -- G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, p1
"The number of men who can do two things well is negligible." -- G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, p68
"I have never once found myself in a position where such scientific knowledge as I possess, outside pure mathematics, has brought me the slightest advantage." -- G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, p117
Being President is like being under arrest: anything you say can and will be used against you.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but not as strange as fashion.
"You are the DJ of your fate." -- Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate 1.24
Every time you hear of the greater metropolitan area, remember, the city itself is the lesser metropolitan area.