Fortune Quote #1582

The Basic Principle of Differential Calculus (from Strichartz): "Do unto
the derivative what you would do unto the function."

Fortune Quote #1581

This is not to say that g'(t0) = 0 necessarily implies that the curve is
not smooth at t0. There are many different parametric representations of a
curve, and we can always stop along a smooth curve to admire the
view. -- Robert S. Strichartz, "The Way of Analysis"

Fortune Quote #1580

You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi,
you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and
a huff. -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #1579

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? --
Steven Wright

Fortune Quote #1578

Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what is
good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. -- John
Kenneth Galbraith

Fortune Quote #1577

We is confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt
Kelly, "Pogo"

Fortune Quote #1576

We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Walt Kelly

Fortune Quote #1575

Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly

Fortune Quote #1574

Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. --
Will Rogers

Fortune Quote #1573

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is
a match. -- Will Rogers

Fortune Quote #1572

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. -- Larry Gelbart

Fortune Quote #1571

Life is wasted on the living. -- The Restaurant at the Edge of the
Universe.

Fortune Quote #1570

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be
unhappy. -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #1569

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a
tune. -- Woody Allen

Fortune Quote #1568

If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few
people die past the age of a hundred. -- George Burns

Fortune Quote #1567

I'd never join any club that would have the likes of me as a
member. -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #1566

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. --
Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #1565

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The
answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. -- Charles
Schulz, 'Peanuts'

Fortune Quote #1564

I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over
it. -- Steven Wright

Fortune Quote #1563

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that
either. -- Jack Benny

Fortune Quote #1562

I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd
rather dance with the cows till you come home. -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #1561

When I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned. -- Ogden
Nash, "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"

Fortune Quote #1560

"From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed
with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." -- Groucho Marx,
from "The Book of Insults"

Fortune Quote #1559

Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent. -- Walt
Kelly

Fortune Quote #1558

Boy, life takes a long time to live. -- Steven Wright

Fortune Quote #1557

Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and
none of his friends like him either. -- Oscar Wilde

Fortune Quote #1556

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too
dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #1555

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other
bastard die for his. -- General Patton

Fortune Quote #1554

Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike--for we are
all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need
mending. -- Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"

Fortune Quote #1553

Come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove
himself cannot. -- Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"