"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer."
Randy Pausch
"Maxim 5: Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries."
Howard Tayler
"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"
Richard Courant
"I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity."
Spike Jonze
"To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inverted version of the mainstream's 'everything's fine."
Anonymous
"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition."
Sunday Adelaja
"A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape."
Dejan Stojanovic
"The power in people is stronger than people in power."
Saji Ijiyemi
"J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, 'could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests."
Philip Zaleski
"Hmm,' she said. ''Curiouser and curiouser,' to quote Alice."
Deborah Blake
"At his 'World of Physics' Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!"
Clifford A. Pickover
"Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people."
Warren Buffett
"It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are."
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