J Robert Oppenheimer Famous Quotes
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita."
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J Robert Oppenheimer Quotations
"It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth."
Robert Armstrong
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
H L Mencken
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
William Bridges
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
Logan Pearsall Smith
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
Art Buchwald
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."
Thomas Sowell
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
Brendan Francis Behan
"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."
Rich Cook