Wayne Dyer

"Be miserable. Or motivate
yourself. Whatever has to be
done, it's always your choice."

"The dilemma of modern man is simple: he does not know why man has any meaning....This is the damnation of our generation."

William Osler

Engrave this Quote Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Joan McIntosh

Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'

Jean Hans Arp

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Leslie Marmon Silco

You damn your own soul better than I ever could.

Bob Marley

“ You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect - you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Nietzsche

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
- Nietzsche

-Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

In the one instance, the dreamer, or enthusiast, being interested by an object usually not frivolous, imperceptibly loses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestions issuing therefrom, until, at the conclusion of a day dream often replete with luxury, he finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings, utterly vanished and forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance. Few deductions, if any, were made; and those few pertinaciously returning in, so to speak, upon the original object as a centre. The meditations were never pleasurable; and, at the termination of the reverie, the first cause, so far from being out of sight, had attained that supernaturally exaggerated interest which was the prevailing feature of the disease. In a word, the powers of mind more particularly exercised were, with me, as I have said before, the attentive, and are, with the day-dreamer, the speculative.

Best ever

Ignorance, error, cupidity, and sin
Possess our souls and exercise our flesh;
Habitually we cultivate remorse
As beggars entertain and nurse their lice.

Our sins are stubborn. Onwards when contrite
We overstuff confession with our pains,
And when we're back again in human mire
Vile tears, we think, will wash away our stains.

Thrice-potent Satan in our cursed bed
Lulls us to sleep, our spirit overkissed,
Until the precious metal of our will
Is vaporized -that cunning alchemist!

Who but the Devil pulls our waking-strings?
Abominations lure us to their side;
Each day we take another step to hell,
Descending through the stench, unhorrified.

Like an exhausted rake who mouths and chews
The martyrized breast of an old withered whore
We steal, in passing, whatever joys we can,
Squeezing the driest orange all the more.

Packed in our brains incestuous as worms
Our demons celebrate in drunken gangs,
And when we breathe, that hollow rasp is Death
Sliding invisibly down into our lungs.

If the dull canvas of our wretched life
is unembellished with such pretty ware
As knives or poison, pyromania, rape
It is because our soul's too weak to dare!

But in this den of jackals, monkeys, curs,
Scorpions, buzzards, snakes-this paradise
Of filthy beasts that screech, howl, grovel, grunt -
In this menagerie of mankind's vice

There's one supremely hideous and impure!
Soft-spoken, not the type to cause a scene,
He'd willingly make rubble of the earth
And swallow up creation in a yawn.

I mean Ennui! who in his hookah-dreams
Produces hangmen and real tears together.
How well you know this fastidious monster, reader,
-Hypocrite reader, you- my double! my brother!

Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944

Evan Esar

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary

let them hate, so long as they fear

oderint dum metuant

Unknown

"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently."

Brian Eno

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176

E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3

Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3

Philosophical Quotations

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson


Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip. ~Audrey Foris, C'est l'esprit du coq rouge (Red Rooster Musings, trans.)


He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius


If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb


The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell


Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller


The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb

William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

William Shakespeare

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

Computer Dork Quotes

• There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t
• If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0
• I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly
• My software never has bugs. It just develops random features
• Roses are #FF0000 , Violets are #0000FF , All my base belongs to you
• In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
• Hand over the calculator, friends don’t let friends derive drunk
• I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code
• Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue…
• The box said ‘Requires Windows 95 or better’. So I installed LINUX
• A penny saved is 1.39 cents earned, if you consider income tax
• Unix, DOS and Windows…the good, the bad and the ugly
• A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
  human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila
• The code that is the hardest to debug is the code that you know cannot possibly be wrong
• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity
• Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny
• C://dos
  
  C://dos.run
  
  run.dos.run
• You know it’s love when you memorize her IP number to skip DNS overhead
• JUST SHUT UP AND REBOOT!!
• 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
• Alcohol & calculus don’t mix. Never drink & derive
• How do I set a laser printer to stun?
• There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer
• Concept: On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape button
• It’s not bogus, it’s an IBM standard
• Be nice to the nerds, for all you know they might be the next Bill Gates!
• The farther south you go, the more dollar stores there are
• Beware of programmers that carry screwdrivers
• The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers
  handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and
  shoot all the other computers
• If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects
  and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages,
  harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won’t mar the furniture
• COFFEE.EXE Missing - Insert Cup and Press Any Key
• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
  build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
  to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
• LISP = Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses
• The beginning of the programmer’s wisdom is understanding the
  difference between getting program to run and having a runnable program
• Squash one bug, you’ll see ten new bugs popping
• Everytime i time i touch my code, i give birth to ten new bugs
• boast = blogging is open & amiable sharing of thoughts
• We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again
• Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted
• If it weren’t for C, we’d all be programming in BASI and OBO
• Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner
• Bad or corrupt header, go get a haircut
• Unrecognized input, get out of the class
• Warning! Buffer overflow, close the tumbler !
• WinErr 547: LPT1 not found… Use backup… PENCIL & PAPER
• Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
• Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes
• Best file compression around: “rm *.*” = 100% compression
• Hackers in hollywood movies are phenomenal. All they need to do is “c:\> hack into fbi”
• BREAKFAST.COM Halted…Cereal Port Not Responding
• I survived an NT installation
• The name is Baud……James Baud
• My new car runs at 56Kbps
• Why doesn’t DOS ever say “EXCELLENT command or filename!”
• File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
• Cannot read data, leech the next boy’s paper? (Y/N)
• CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/n)?
• Does fuzzy logic tickle?
• Helpdesk : Sir, you need to add 10GB space to your HD , Customer : Could you please tell where I can download that?
• Windows: Just another pane in the glass
• Who’s General Failure & why’s he reading my disk?
• RAM disk is not an installation procedure
• Shell to DOS…Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS…
• The truth is out there…anybody got the URL?
• Smash forehead on keyboard to continue…..
• E-mail returned to sender — insufficient voltage
• Help! I’m modeming… and I can’t hang up!!!
• All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
• Once I got this error on my Linux box: Error. Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue
• Once I got this error on my Linux box: Error. Mouse not attached. Please left click the ‘OK’ button to continue
• Press any key to continue or any other key to quit…
• Press every key to continue
• Helpdesk: Sir if you see the blue screen, press any key to continue. Customer : hm.. just a min.. where’s that ‘any key’..
• Idiot, Go ahead, make my data!
• Old programmers never die; they just give up their resources
• To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so
• (001) Logical Error CLINTON.SYS: Truth table missing
• Clinton:/> READ | PARSE | WRITE | DUMP >> MONKIA.SYS
• (D)inner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza
• Computers can never replace human stupidity
• A typical Yahoo! inbox : Inbox(0), Junk(9855210)
• (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)anic?
• Bugs come in through open Windows
• Penguins love cold, they wont survive the sun
• Unix is user friendly…its just selective about who its friends are
• Artificial intelligence usually beats real stupidity
• Bell Labs Unix — Reach out and grep someone.
• To err is human…to really foul up requires the root password.
• Invalid password : Please enter the correct password to (Abort / Retry / Ignore )
• FUBAR - where Geeks go for a drink
• I degaussed my girlfriend and I’m just not attracted to her anymore
• Scandisk : Found 2 bad sectors. Please enter a new HD to continue scanning
• Black holes are where God divided by zero
• Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
• Thank god, my baby just compiled
• Yes! My code compiled, and my wife just produced the output
• Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously
• Zap! And there was the blue screen !
• Please send all spam to my main address, root@localhost :-)
• MailerD(a)emon: You just received 9133547 spam. (O)pen all, (R)ead one by one, (C)heck for more spam
• A: Can you teach me how to use a computer? B: No. I just fix the machines, I don’t use them
• PayPal: Your funds have been frozen for 668974 days
• 1-800-404 : The subscriber you are trying to call does not exist
• 1-800-403 : Access to that subscriber was denied
• Error message: “Out of paper on drive D:”
• If I wanted a warm fuzzy feeling, I’d antialias my graphics!
• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light
• “Mr. Worf, scan that ship.” “Aye Captain. 300 dpi?”
• Smith & Wesson: The Original Point And Click Interface
• Shout onto a newsgroup : It echoes back flames and spam
• Firewall : Intruder detected. (A)llow in (D)eactivate the firewall
• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language
• Warning! Perl script detected! (K)ill it , (D)eactivate it
• Firewall : Do you want to place a motion detector on port 80 ?
• Helpdesk: Sir, please refill your ink catridges Customer : Where can i download that?
• All computers run at the same speed… with the power off
• You have successfully logged in, Now press any key to log out
• Sorry, the password you tried is already being used by Dorthy, please try something else.
• Sorry, that username already exists. (O)verwrite it (C)ancel
• Please send all flames, trolls, and complaints to /dev/toilet
• Shut up, or i’ll flush you out
• Cron : Enter cron command \ Now enter the number of minutes in an hour
• We are experiencing system trouble — do not adjust your terminal
• You have successfully hacked in, Welcome to the FBI mainframes.
• I’m sorry, our software is perfect. The problem must be you
• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway
• Webhost livehelp: Sir you ran out of bandwidth, User: Where can I download that?
• If Ruby is not and Perl is the answer, you don’t understand the question
• Having soundcards is nice… having embedded sound in web pages is not
• My computer was full, so I deleted everything on the right half
• You have received a new mail which is 195537 hours old
• Yahoo! Mail: Your email was sent successfully. The email will delivered in 4 days and 8 hours
• I’m sorry for the double slash (Tim Berners-Lee in a Panel Discussion, WWW7, Brisbane, 1998)
• Ah, young webmaster… java leads to shockwave. Shockwave leads to realaudio. And realaudio leads to suffering
• What color do you want that database?
• C++ is a write-only language, once can write programs in C++, but I can’t read any of them
• As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code
• earth is 98% full … please delete anyone you can
• A typical yahoo chat room: “A has signed in, A has signed out, B
  has signed in, B has signed out, C has signed in, C has signed out..”
• When someone says “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,” give him a lollipop
• Warning! No processor found! Press any key to continue
• Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product
• NT is the only OS that has caused me to beat a piece of hardware to death with my bare hands
• Warning! Kernel crashed, Run for your lives !
• NASA uses Windows? Oh great. If Apollo 13 went off course today the
  manual would just tell them to open the airlock, flush the astronauts
  out, and re-install new one
• JavaScript: An authorizing language designed to make Netscape crash
• How’s my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
• Yes, friends and neighbors, boys and girls - my PC speaker crashed NT
• root:> Sorry, you entered the wrong password, the correct password is ‘a_49qwXk’
• New linux package released. Please install on /dev/null
• Quake and uptime do not like each other
• Unix…best if used before: Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 GMT 2038
• As you well know, magic and weapons are prohibited inside the cafeteria — Final Fantasy VIII
• Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft…and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labo
• Unix is the only virus with a command line interface
• Windows 95 makes Unix look like an operating system
• How are we supposed to hack your system if it’s always down!
• God is real, unless declared integer
• I’m tempted to buy the slashdot staff a grammar checker. What do they do for 40 hours a week?
• Paypal : Please enter your credit card number to continue
• It takes a million monkeys at typewriters to write Shakespeare, but only a dozen monkeys at computers to run Network Solutions
• Please help - firewall burnt down - lost packet - reward $$$
• If Linux were a beer, it would be shipped in open barrels so that anybody could piss in it before delivery
• Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle
• Perl, the only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption
• Norton: Incoming virus - (D)ownload and save (R)un after download
• I had a dream… and there were 1’s and 0’s everywhere, and I think I saw a 2!
• You sir, are an unknown USB device driver
• C isn’t that hard: void (*(*f[])())() defines f as an array of
  unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to
  functions that return void

William Shakespeare

I have
Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

• "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."
  
  
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
  
  
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
  
  
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
  
  
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
  
  
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
  
  
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
  
  
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
  
  
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
  
  
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
  
  
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
  
  
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
  
  
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
  
  
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
  
  
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
  
  
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
  
  
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
  
  
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
  
  
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  
  
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at
  it."
  
  
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
  
  
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
  
  
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
  empirically."
  
  
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
  
  
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
  criminal."
  
  
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
  
  
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
  comprehensible."
  
  
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
  created them."
  
  
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in
  school."
  
  
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
  reason for existing."
  
  
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine
  are still greater."
  
  
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present,
  but an equation is something for eternity."
  
  
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.
  Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
  
  
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure
  about the the universe."
  
  
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as
  far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
  
  
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
  is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
  
  
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
  will be fought with sticks and stones."
  
  
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above
  all, be a sheep."
  
  
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk
  of accident for
  someone who's dead."
  
  
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel
  libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
  
  
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
  goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
  
  
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to
  explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological
  phenomenon as first love?"
  
  
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
  superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
  to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
  
  
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our
  equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are
  only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
  
  
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
  thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If
  only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
  
  
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
  mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not
  thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
  courageously uses his intelligence."
  
  
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
  source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
  stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
  good as dead: his eyes are closed."
  
  
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
  and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a
  poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward
  after death."
  
  
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
  seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the
  fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving
  after rational knowledge."
  
  
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.
  That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know
  that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a
  stubbornly persistent illusion."
  
  
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
  tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
  this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
  receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
  
  
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the
  examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had
  such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the
  final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific
  problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
  
  
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is
  escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,
  from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered
  nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective
  perception and thought."
  
  
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already
  earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
  since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace
  to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at
  command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble
  war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base
  an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
  is nothing but an act of murder."
  
  
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part
  limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
  feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical
  delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
  us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
  persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
  prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
  creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
  
  
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can
  be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
  
  

Lynn Hall

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

David Zucker (1947 - )

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.