Quotes
Category: Science
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In Mathematics, you don't understand things - you just get used so them.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that's not the reason why we're doing it.
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Nobody believes in simulations - except for the one that did them.
Everybody believes in measurements - except for the one that did them.
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The reasonable man adapts to the world around him. The unreasonable man tries to change the world. Therefore, all progress is the result of unreasonable men.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call
them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
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2 is not equal to 3 - not even for large values of 2.
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While all models are unrealistic, some of them are actually useful.
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Category: Funny
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Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience.
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... and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth.
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Bad people are punished by society's law. ... And good people are punished by Murphy's Law.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Category: Geek Stuff
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A trainstation is a station where the train stops - what the hell is a workstation?
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There's only 10 types of people - those that understand binary numbers and those that don't.
Category: Just beautiful
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The truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath i'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the dark.
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Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
Category: Things to think about
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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You can fool all the people for some time, and you can fool some people for all the time. But you will never be able to fool all the people for all the time.
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.