Favorite Quotes

Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass.
A library is just a genteel black hole that can read
- Mort by Terry Pratchett

"The most dangerous creature in all the world is not a woman
scorned, rather an experienced Dungeon Master rallied to a cause."
- Annonymouse...

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of
darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity

Human subtlety...will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than
does nature, because in her inventions nothing
is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes
useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Favorite Quotes

The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled
with an infinite number of images which are produced by the
various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is
the target, a lodestone, of these images.
- Leonardo da Vinci

That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations
of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface
of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The theories which I have expressed there,
and which appear to you to be so chimerical,
are really extremely practical — so practical
that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything
which the mind of man could invent."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

Picard: "Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk."
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode: Darmok

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

Quotaria

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx

He who does not punish evil,
commands it to be done.
- Leonardo da Vinci

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a
fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but
refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you
get to go into the private world of real creeps
without having to smell them.
- Penn Jillette

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
- John N. Mitchell

"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
- Artemus Ward

Quotes

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
- Carl Sagan, US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the
falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford

Forget injuries, never
forget kindnesses.
- Confucius

No human investigation can be called real science
if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Eighty percent of married men cheat
in America. The rest cheat in Europe."
- Jackie Mason

"People that are really very weird can
get into sensitive positions and have
a tremendous impact on history."
- Dan Quayle