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Last change: March 28th, 2006 
  Leonardo da Vinci Study the science of art and the art of science.
  African proverb Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet.
  Murphy Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
  Murphy There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.
  Murphy The more knowledge you gained, the less certain you are of it.
  Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
  Paul van der Vet The image a mathematician has of reality is like the image a playboy reader has of sex.
  Joe Lewis You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
  James Bond (Sean Connery) You only live twice.
  Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything, he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
  Anna Sewell We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
  Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
  Steven Wright Black Holes are where God divided by zero.
  William Whewell Every failure is a step to success.
  Paul van der Vet Opportunities are just like girls, if you pass up to many of them you end up with an ugly one.
  Dilbert Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
  Dilbert Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again.
  Unencyclopedia.com Weapons that don't exist but should.
  Jim Carry Somebody stop me.
  Mikhail Bakunin By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
  Unknown Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
  Robert Browning Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
  Erin Majors A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
  Leo Burnett When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
  Unknown Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
  Harriet Braiker Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
  Sir Winston Churchill Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
  George Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
  Wilson Mizner Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
  Alan Kay The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
  Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said.
  Thomas Watson I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
  Mark Twain Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
  Wernher Von Braun Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
  Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
  A standing biology joke Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
  Ingo Wassink A clever person solves a problem, a wise person avoids it. I don't see the problem.
  Unanimous UWH enthusiast The aim for which I would like to organize this underwater hockey workshop is to exchange ideas and to get acquainted with the group. En how better to do this that under water?!
  Bill Buxton If you can only manipulate one point, regardless of with a mouse, touch sreen, joystick, trackball, etc., you are restricted to the gestural vocabulary of a fruit fly.
  Bill Buxton If the finger were the ultimate device, why didn't Picasso and Rembrant restrict themselves to finger painting?
  Justine Cassell I don't believe that everyday human users have any more experience with, or natural affinity for, a `gestural language' than they have with DOS commands.
  Bill Buxton I hate computers -- I fucking HATE computers -- but I especially hate Windows computers.
  Bill Buxton The only way to engineer the future tommorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.
  Bill Buxton If you are going to break something, including a tradition, the more you understand it, the better job you can do.
  Matt Harding Why is the world so screwed up: men. How do we fix it: women.
  Chinese proverb Yesterday is past, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
  Unknown Dutch Vroeger, toen sex nog seks was.
  Unknown Do not fear what you can't see, fear what you can see but choose not too.
  Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
  Unknown Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
  Unknown Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
  Phil McGraw You would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.
  Steven Wright The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
  Friedrich Nietzche That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger.
  Chinese Proverb The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.
  Unknown The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
  Socrates The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
  Unknown Never be afraid to try; amateurs built the ark but professionals built the Titanic.
  Randy Pausch It is cool to meet your childhood idol but it is nothing compared to your childhood idol walking up to you to see what cool stuff you are doing in your lab.
  Ivo Swartjes Jeej, I made Little Red Riding Hood cry!