When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Goodheart's Law:
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Gore Vidal:
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton:
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le
loisir de la faire plus courte.
(I have made this [letter] longer
because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Groucho Marx:
I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me as a member.
Plato, Phaedrus:
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded.
A. A. Milne:
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries.
Albert Einstein:
If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
But do it first, do it fast, and do it best.
The Golden Rule:
Them that has the gold makes the rules.
Teddy Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes up short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends
himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst,
at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat.
Albert Einstein:
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.