Fortune Quote

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Fortune Quote #1298

We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own
facts. -- Patrick Moynihan

Friday, February 19, 2016

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides
us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own
feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Fortune Quote #1296

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two,
opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have
none. -- Doug Larson

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Fortune Quote #1295

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation
to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Fortune Quote #1294

Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. --
Bertrand Russell

Monday, February 15, 2016

Fortune Quote #1293

"This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant." And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..." -- From a 1B Electrical
Engineering lecture.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Fortune Quote #1292

This is the theory that Jack built. This is the flaw that lay in the
theory that Jack built. This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw
that lay in...

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Fortune Quote #1291

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're
talking about. -- John von Neumann

Friday, February 12, 2016

Fortune Quote #1290

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express
it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiares"

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Fortune Quote #1289

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be
done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- E. Hubbard