![]() When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly. Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ![]() On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. The law will never make men free it is men who have got to make the law free. I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. It is the source of all true art and all science. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. ![]() This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' ~ Winston Churchill 24. I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For her own person, it beggard all description ~ (Enobarbus, II.ii) Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 22. The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. ~ Education and the Social Order by Bertrand Russell 21. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Most people would rather die than think in fact, they do so. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein 15. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Martin Luther King (This was the first "Quote of the Day" at Wikiquote, selected by Nanobug on 11 July 2003.) 12. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. See also: QOTD by month - Quotes of the Year QOTD index Note: In the first few months of the Wikiquote project a new "Quote of the Day" was not always selected for each day, and sometimes several days would pass before a new one was chosen.Ģ003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ006 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ007 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ008 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ009 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ010 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberĢ011 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December The only such summary pages now regularly updated are those linked to QOTD by month where monthly listings of the layouts used are provided from November 2007 onward. This was useful for avoiding repetition of past selections in making proposals. This page lists all "Quotes of the day" that had been chosen at Wikiquote, in chronological order, until February 2012.
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