Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.
-- Warren Buffett

The Stone Age didn't end because of a shortage of stones.
-- Unnamed OPEC oil minister

When your flying by the seat of your pants, nothing sounds more official than a 'Plan B'
-- Dukes of Hazzard

An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
-- Laurence J. Peter

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.
-- Corrie ten Boom

I bet the human brain is a kludge.
-- Marvin Minsky

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
-- Lyall Watson

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner.
Tactics is getting her to drink it.
-- Frank Muir

Whenever you fall, pick up something
-- Oswald Theodore Avery

Models are to be used, not believed.
-- H. Theil `Principles of Econometrics'

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man
but deteriorate the cat
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape,
then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air
-- Doris Lessing

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never
does any harm to ask for what you want.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

Great men can't be ruled.
-- Ayn Rand, 'The_Fountainhead'

"The measure of life is not its duration but its donation."
-- Former U.S. Senate chaplain Peter Marshall

"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."
-- Peter Lynch

The amount of paper is inversely proportional to the amount of trust in a relationship
-- John Tomaszewski

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so."
-- William Shakespeare

Every man I meet is my superior in some way.
In that, I learn of him.
-- Emerson

I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting
over the fact that G-d has not seen fit to distribute evenly
the gift of intelligence
-- John Wanamaker

"A Strict Accordance Between Practical Work And A Corresponding Theory
Is Never Possible And Yet All Our Life Is Based On Constant Practical
Applications Of Inapplicable Theories."
-- J. Neyman (Lectures and Conferences on Math. Statist. and Prob. (1950) p.268)

There is all the difference in the world
between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
--Friedrich A. Hayek

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
--Friedrich A. Hayek

I say let [homosexuals] marry.
Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?
--Assistant D.A. Jack McCoy on Law and Order

A Man Who Has Attained Mastery Of An Art
Reveals It In His Every Action
-- Samurai Maxim

Division is the same as creation,
creation is the same as destruction.
-- Chuang Tzu

Knowing Others Is Wisdom
Knowing Yourself Is Enlightenment
-- Lao-Tzu

Nothing Is Impossible To A Willing Mind
-- Books Of Han Dynasty

Power Of Mind Is Infinite
While Brawn Is Limited
-- Koichi Tohei

Life Unfolds On A Great Sheet Called Time
And Once Finished It Is Gone Forever
-- Chinese Adage

Fear is an illusion - don't take life so seriously.
None of us is going to get out alive
-- Joey Reiman "Thinking For a Living"

The Mind Should Be Nowhere In Particular
-- Takuan

Flow With Whatever May Happen And Let Your Mind Be Free:
Stay Centered By Accepting Whatever You Are Doing
This Is The Ultimate
-- Chuang-Tzu

Using No Way As Way
Having No Limitation As Limitation
-- Bruce Lee

You And Your Opponent Are One.
There Is A Coexisting Relationship Between You.
You Coexist With Your Opponent
And Become His Compliment Absorbing His Attack
And Using His Force To Overcome Him
-- Bruce Lee

The Less Effort
The Faster And More Powerful You Will Be
-- Bruce Lee

The Angry Man Will Defeat Himself In Battle
As Well As In Life
-- Samurai Maxim

If You Live To Seek Revenge
Dig A Grave For Two
-- Unknown

I never give them hell;
I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
--Harry S. Truman

When You Seek It You Cannot Find It
-- Zen Riddle

Control Your Emotion Or It Will Control You
-- Chinese Adage

I Can Defeat You Physically With Or Without A Reason
But I Can Only Defeat Your Mind With A Reason
-- Jim Lau

If you can't spot the sucker your first half-hour at the table,
then you are the sucker.
-- quote from "Rounders"

Genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in,
next to soccer.
-- Loci from "Dogma"

"You know, in preschool they let you shit your pants."
-- Josh

It's important to keep it on the side.
-- Sally from "When Harry Met Sally"

If Soft Chew It
If Hard Spit It Out
-- Confucius: The Book Of Songs

Inward Power Is Light As A Feather
Yet To Heavy For Common People To Raise
-- Confucius: The Book Of Songs

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Maturity: When You Realize That Your Pleasures Are Not Worth Someone Elses Pain
-- Mike MacDonnald

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who believe they are exclusively in the right
are generally those who achieve something
-- Aldous Huxley

Speed, It Seems To Me, Provides The Only Modern Pleasure
-- Aldous Huxley

Engineers Are To Bandwidth As Nature Is To A Vacuum
-- Unknown

The Difference Between Theory and Practice
Is Greater In Practice Than In Theory
-- Bored Economist

Money Is Only Something You Need
In Case You Don't Die Tomorrow
-- Gordon Gecko (from the movie Wall Street)

You can hype a questionable product for a little while,
but you'll never build an enduring business
-- Victor Kiam

If Columbus had had an advisory committee, he'd probably still be at the dock
-- Arther Goldberg - former Supreme Court Justice

If Something Exists It Exists In Some Amount
If It Exists In Some Amount
It Can Be Measured.
-- Edward L. Thorndike

Anything Which Exists Can Be Measured Incorrectly
-- Douglas K. Detterman

There Is No Off Position To This Genius Switch
-- David Letterman

A Woman Needs A Man
Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
-- Gloria Steinem then Bono from U2

A Man Who Has Not Found Something
He Is Willing To Die For
Is Not Fit To Live
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When You Hate The Only Person Who Suffers Is You,
Because Most Of The People You Hate Don't Know It
And The Others Don't Care.
-- Medgar Evers

When A Man Is Wrapped Up In Himself
It Makes A Very Small Package.
-- John Ruskin

Good Things Come In Small Packages.
-- Mom

If I have been able to see further,
it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
-- Issac Newton

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge
-- Albert Einstein

I Want To Know The Mind Of God
Everything Else Is Just Detail
-- Albert Einstein

"You May Say I'm A Dreamer, But I'm Not The Only One.
I Hope Some Day You'll Join Us, And The World Will Be As One."
-- John Lennon

You Can't Think A Thought You Can't Think
-- Jenny Fogurt

There Are More Legal Positions
Than There Are Particles In The Universe
-- John Haugeland

If You Can Count Your Money You Don't Have A Billion Dollars.
-- J. Paul Getty

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain

Hofstadter's Law:
"It Takes Longer Than You Expect,
Even When You Take Hofstadter's Law Into Account."

Never Appeal To A Man's "Better Nature." He May Not Have One.
Invoking His Self Interest Gives You More Leverage.
-- Lazarus Long

Originality Is The Art Of Concealing Your Source.
-- Franklin P. Jones

If You Have A Difficult Task, Give It To Someone Lazy. . .
That Person Will Find An Easier Way To Do It.

It is not enough that I succeed.
Everyone else must fail.
-- Atilla the Hun

"One Who Is A Samuri Must Before All Things Keep Constantly In Mind,
By Day And By Night...
The Fact That He Has To Die."
-- Daidoji Yuzan

"Whoever Has Brought Men To A State Of Rage Against Himself
Has Always Aquired A Party In His Favor, Too."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Charlie Brown, Of All The Charlie Brown's In The World,
You're The Charlie Brownest."
-- Lucy

"The Only Thing Worse Than Not Getting What You Want
Is Getting What You Want."
-- Oscar Wilde

"To Create is Divine, To Reproduce is Human."
-- Man Ray

"It Was Just a Mission Statement."
-- Jerry McGuire (from the movie Jerry McGuire)

"Roll With the Punches, For Tomorrow is Another Day."
-- Dickey Fox (from the movie Jerry McGuire)

"Before You Criticize A Man, Walk A Mile In His Shoes.
That Way, When You Do Criticize Him, You'll Be A Mile Away
And Have His Shoes."
-- Brian Corin

PARADOXES

"This Sentence Is False." (Liar's paradox)

Consider a town with a male barber who shaves daily every man who does not shave himself, and no one else.
(E.g. of Russel's Paradox: The set of all sets that do not contain themselves as members)

If You Remove One Single Grain From A Heap Of Sand,
You Will Always Be Left With A Heap.
So What Happens If You Keep Removing Grain After Grain?
Eventually, You Will End Up With A "Heap" Composed Of A Single Grain.

Standing Is More Tiring Than Walking

Nuns Are Women Who Marry God
Which Gives Rise To This Question:
If They Divorce Him Do They Get To Keep Half The Universe?

If you had any idea what you were talking about,
you'd realize how dumb you are.

The world without miracles is incredible but it exists
-- Fermi's Paradox