Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

True greatness consists in the use of
a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others.
- Voltaire

Taking a new step, uttering a new
word, is what people fear most.
- Dostoyevsky

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the
word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger;
the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Richard Nixon

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew
before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac, English physicist in US (1902 - 1984)

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a
difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing
it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?
- Brady

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