Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Previously in favourite quotations (5)

The eye takes in at a glance what tongue cannot tell or hand write in an hour - William Russell


Genius asserts itself early in life, talent rises slowly - Harry Furniss


A picture is worth 1000 words but it uses up 1000 times the memory - Anon


We are neither a pure energy struggling to free itself from a prison of circumstance nor purely malleable clay waiting to be shaped by the forces about us - David Kolb


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing & mean your mother - Anon


We often pay our debts because by doing so we make it easier to negotiate loans in the future - La Rochefoucauld


Robots aren’t clever enough to be human & humans aren’t clever enough to build an intelligent robot - David Chater


Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern despotism - Mary McCarthy


In by-elections there are no defeats, only victories and moral victories - Jerome K Jerome




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