Quotes

"Berkeley" in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional are the same in this case) and "Berkeley" in Japanese. 18 August 2004

22June 2004
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

10 June 2004
Everything is relative.
-Author Unknown

4 June 2004
You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
- John Lennon - Imagine

27 May 2004
There are two major products to have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-Jeremy S. Anderson

27 May 2004
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
- Seymour Cray, talking about computer virtual memory

27 May 2004
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
-Keith Bostic

27 May 2004
Exploiting [the transistor's] potential caused many headaches. A colleague called it a 'persistor', because persistence was what it took to make it.
- William Shockley, Father of Transistor

27 May 2004
Keyboard not found: press F1 to continue.
- Author Unknown

27 May 2004
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
-Muhammad

27 May 2004
To laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

27 May 2004
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please.
- P.J. O'Rourke

27 May 2004
Lottery - a tax on people who are bad at math.
- Author Unknown

27 May 2004
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
-Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

27 May 2004
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

27 May 2004
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln, 1858

27 May 2004
There are two major products to have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-Jeremy S. Anderson

27 May 2004
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
-Sigmund Freud

27  May 2004
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
-Thomas Jefferson

17 May 2004
A man ought never to go hungry.
-Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac

01 Nov 2001
That all men are created equal,
That they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights,
That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson

16 May 2004
We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual.
-Marie Curie (1867-1934)

16 May 2004
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
-Enest Rutherford

02 May 2004
No. No. No. It's not the size of the ship. It is the work in the ocean, so learn to work it.
-Natasha Joplin, a Human Sexuality Instructor

02 May 2004
Character is what you do when no one is looking.
- The Boy Scout Manual

02 May 2004
Everything requires hard work, but if you enjoy doing the work, the trouble doesn't matter.
-Bill Hung

18 April 2004
Who decides where to draw the line of insanity? Aren't there those who cross and recross the line?
- Author Unknown, Cowboy Bebop the Movie

18 April 2004
This is how history is made - by the first-timer.
- Author Unknown

18 April 2004
Freedom is having the right to choose.
-Author Unknown

18 April 2004
The ship that sets sail either keeps sailing or it sinks.
- Author Unknown, Cowboy Bebop the Movie

18 April 2004
To make the unconscious conscious.
- Sigmund Freud

18 April 2004
Everything comes to those who wait.
- Author Unknown

18 April 2004
We have two classes of economic forecasters: Those who don't know... and those who don't know they don't know.
 - John Kenneth Galbraith, from the Preface written by Roger Mack

11 April 2004
Nearly all man can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

11 April 2004
Winning isn't everything...it's the only thing! - Vince Lombardi - legendary football coach

27 Mar 2004
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. -Author Unknown
 

22 Feb 2004
Beware of he who would deny u access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself ur master!
- Author Unknown, from Yaniv Rosen's ICQ Info

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.  - Thomas Alva Edison

Hell, there are no rules here! we're trying to accomplish something. -Thomas Edison

27 May 2004
There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Alva Edison

I can never leave Africa. It is in my blood, in my face, in my name.
-Ken Wiwa, from the email of Jefferson Shirley, a Math instructor

Do not squander time, because that's what life is made of.
-Gone with the Wind

The key to multiculturalism, is awareness" - awareness that one's own way of thinking is shaped by culture, and awareness that there are other, equally valid cultures in the world
-Jaime S. Wurzel, professor of education, read by Bill Hung during his Cultural Exchange Student Year

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
-Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli prime minister

From now on, I promised myself, I would only flow with the strongest current and drift with the steadiest wind - and not resist. -Le Ly Hayslip

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without you consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana

Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -Albert Einstein

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write. -H. G. Wells

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where - " said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
-Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Experience isn't what happens to you. It's what you make out of what happens to you. (Aldous Huxley)

How can it be that mathematics, a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? (Albert Einstein)

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. (Descartes)

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certainty. (Voltaire)

We see that the theory of probabilities is at bottom only common sense reduced to calculation. -Pierre Simon Laplace

To guess is cheap,
To guess wrongly is expensive,
Tell me, I'll forget.
Show me, I may remember.
But involve me and I'll understand.
-Old Chinese Proverbs

The buck stops here! (A sign, which sat on Harry Truman's desk, expressed that the President of the United States cannot shirk responsibility for tough decisions.)

Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. (Refrain that echoed throughout the United States during WWII)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus C. 544 - 483 B.C.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Von Goethe 1749-1832

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
-Confucius 551 - 479 B.C.

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. (J. Robert Oppenheimer - founder of atomic bomb, original from Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu holy book)

Never again to tolerate, anywhere on the face of the earth, a regime of evil and murder and discrimination among human beings on the basis of their religion, race, or color. (Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak)

If they come to take my farm, I'm going to fight. I'd rather be killed outright than die by starvation. (America Great Depression famous quote)

Massive government spending could help a collapsing economy and encourage more private spending. (Britist economist John Maynard Keyes)

Fight as if you never lose, love as if it never hurt. (Author unknown)

In order to have political power, you gotta have money. (Joan Reichardt - American History teacher)

I shall stand or fall in this struggle. I shall never survive the defeat of my people. (Adolf Hitler)

It has become abundantly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. (Albert Einstein)

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured. (Galileo Galilei)

Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon)

To be or not to be, that's the question. (William Shakespeare - Hamlet)

It's the small things that change how you feel, not the trip to Hawaii. (Leslie Parrot, Center for Relationship Development in Seattle)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon, from Princess Dairy the movie

Give a man a dole [handout], and you save his body and destroy his spirit. Give him a job and pay him an assured wage and you save both the body and the spirit. (Harry Hopkins)

So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value. (Aldous Huxley - Brave New World)

Death is not our enemy, suffering is.
-Author Unknown

What matters our creative endless toil, when at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil. (Goethe)

Tell me what you do and I'll tell you who you are. - Author Unknown

Even a dutiful person will eventually get tired of always being dedicated and meticulous. (Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World)

I think, therefore I am. (Descartes)

As long as we exist, death is not here, and when it does come, we no longer exist. (Epicurus)

To mankind, mankind is holy. (Slogan of humanism)

The devil find work for idle hands (Old saying)

Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less. (Robert E. Lee)

15 April 2004
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. -Robert E. Lee

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. (Socrates)

How many constrains are all designed at the very beginning that we were born? (Author unknown)

I wasn't crying for him at all, but for all the things he did. (Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451)

"If we had no winter, then spring would not be so pleasant" (Anne Bradstreet, Poet)

He said he'd been coming up to the library every day to try and talk to me, but he hadn't been able to pluck up the courage. (K. J. Rowling - Harry Potter)

The trees in the countryside can teach me nothing. (Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World)

The question is complex and life is short. (Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World)

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another? Never! Never! (William Shakespeare  - Julius Caesar)

Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar. (William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar)

We don't always want the best, we always want better. (Xenos IHMV)

有時會發現”藝術”成了貶義詞，代表不能理解，甚至不知所謂的東東。 (Mau=O_O= Lee)

你是我活著的緣由。我會貢獻出我擁有的一切，只希望你能愛慕我。(Rabindranath Tagore泰戈爾)

你可以疑心星星是火把；你可以疑心太陽會移轉；你可以疑心真理是謊話；可是永遠別疑心我的愛。(William Shakespeare莎士比亞 - Hamlet)

愛使人脆弱；使人快樂的是──被愛。(Sigmund Freud佛洛伊德)

白晝、夜裏，我不時地輕輕呼喚你的名字，愛，你能感覺得到嗎?(梁實秋)

在眼淚中浸潤過的愛情是最可愛的。(Oscar Wild王爾德)

天下最遙遠的距離，是我站在你面前，而你不知道我愛你。 (佚名)

18 April 2004
玩人喪德，玩物喪志。-中國彥語

05 May 2004
禮多人不怪，鹽多菜不壞。
-中國彥語