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Listen to the Mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the Don'ts.
Listen to the Shouldn'ts,
The Impossibles, the Won'ts.
Listen to the Never haves,
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child
Anything can be.
-- Shel Silverstein
Every silver lining has a cloud.
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-- Harvey Fierstein
Caffeine is not a substitute for sheep.
-- Peter da Silva
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver (on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notes)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
-- Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
-- Albert Einstein
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.
-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
-- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
-- Albert Einstein
"Everything that can be said can be said clearly."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
-- Michael Sinz
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't ask "why" unless you're not disappointed with answers like "I don't know."
-- Andrew Walenstein
[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.
-- Peter da Silva
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
-- Albert Einstein
The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.
-- Peter da Silva
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
One can overstate anything. Your advertising depends on it.
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
-- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
-- Albert Einstein
"There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone."
-- Gloria Steinem
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
-- Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
"The main differences between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows when he's lying."
-- Peter da Silva
> 0C is freezing, 100C is boiling, 70F is a nice day, and 110C is a nice
> sauna.
This is the same logic that took out the Mars Polar Lander, I see.
-- Peter da Silva
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
-- Albert Einstein
The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.
-- Albert Einstein