My favorite quotations and such.
1. "The lyfe so short; the craft so long to lerne." — Chaucer
2. "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." — Latin proverb
3. "Art and science have their meeting point in method." — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Art and science have their real meeting point in trying to make the printer work." — Kenneth Goldberg
4. "Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait."
— Kenneth Goldberg
5. "Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards."
— Kenneth Goldberg
6. "Reach(man) > Grasp" — Kenneth Goldberg, à la Browning
7. "If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need." — Kenneth Goldberg
8. "To the capable goes the work." — Kenneth Goldberg
9. "The flexible bend." — Kenneth Goldberg
10. "The idea that the universe is a giant hologram is interfering with my weekend." — Kenneth Goldberg
11. "CCD Background exposure: it's the new black." — Kenneth Goldberg
12. "If all you have is a microscope, everything looks like a defect." — Kenneth Goldberg via Maslow
13. "To err is human, ⌘-Z sublime." — Kenneth Goldberg
14. "Possession is 9/10ths of the tantrum." — Kenneth Goldberg
15. "There's no sense aging bad wine." — Kenneth Goldberg
16. "Nobody expects a metastable equilibrium." — Kenneth Goldberg
17. "Aberrations cannot hide from the knife." — Kenneth Goldberg, a Foucault
18. "At 10-7 Torr, no one can hear you scream." — Kenneth Goldberg
19. "I've got 1e99 problems and floating-point roundoff error is 1." — Kenneth Goldberg
20. "Bendable all mirrors are." — Kenneth Goldberg via Yoda
21. "To my toddler son: All good swings must come to an end. " — Kenneth Goldberg
22. "This sentence is worth 0.006 pictures. " — Kenneth Goldberg
23. "If adaptive x-ray optics fails, they will call it, 'maladaptive optics.'" — Kenneth Goldberg
24. "One man's defect is another man's feature." — Kenneth Goldberg
25. "The longest journey begins with a single schlep." — Kenneth Goldberg
26. "When two flexible cords, of lengths L1 and L2, rest on a surface for time T, the probability that they will become intertwined is 1. At the molecular scale, I posit this as the origin of life." — Kenneth Goldberg
27. "No experiment plan survives contact with the beam." — Kenneth Goldberg via Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
28. "No agenda survives first contact with the review committee." — Kenneth Goldberg
29. "Each brick / mortared into place / assumes its role / as the highest point / then spends eternity / supporting others." — Kenneth Goldberg
30. "Everything that happens is ironclad proof of my confirmation bias." — Kenneth Goldberg
31. "There's a fine line between physics and crazy-talk." — Kathryn K. Goldberg
32. "My female intuition trumps your science every day." — Kathryn K. Goldberg
33. "Sometimes the best thing you can do for something is nothing." — Kathryn K. Goldberg
34. "Remember, before the internet, you had to just sit there and wonder." — Kathryn K. Goldberg
35. "Rule: People push buttons." — Kathryn K. Goldberg
36. "Everything is linear, to first order." — A physicist maxim
37. "Life is too important to take seriously." — Hector Medecki (and maybe Oscar Wilde?)
38. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Will Durant
39. "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." — Albert Szent-Gyrgyi
40. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln
41. "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." — Buddha (also Marie Curie)
42. "There's a new security update for Windows users: It's called Macintosh." — Ta-dum
43. "Faced with a choice, do both." — Dieter Rot (Roth)
44. "...We are further removed from a deeper insight into elementary processes than most of our contemporaries believe...." — Albert Einstein
45. "...Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep on moving." — Albert Einstein
46. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." — Albert Einstein
47. "You do not really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother." — Albert Einstein
48. "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" — Albert Einstein
49. "Three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." —Albert Einstein
50. "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." —Albert Einstein
51. "Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered." — Barry Targan
52. "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." — Groucho Marx
53. "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture." — Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
54. "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." — Gandhi
55. "The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them." — Joseph Henry
56. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." — Henry Ford
57. "Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free." — Richard Avedon
58. "Quod Natura Munimento Inviderat Industria Adiecit
(What nature guards jealously, hard work has addressed)."— Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (Orvieto)
59. "I am proud to be a heretic.... If I could persuade everyone to agree with me, I would not be a heretic. — Freeman Dyson
60. "New truths become evident when new tools become available." — Rosalyn Yalow
61. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." — Henry Ward Beecher
62. "Given enough coffee, I could rule the world." — Author Unknown
63. "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year." — John Foster Dulles
64. "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." — F. P. Jones
65. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." — Samuel Johnson
66. "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." — M. C. Escher
67. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — Dennis Gabor
68. "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists—to protect them and to promote their common welfare—all else is lost." — Barack Obama
69. "It's not where you take things from—It's where you take them to." — Jean-Luc Godard
70. "Maxwell mnemonic
del dot E is rho
del dot B equals zero
No source for confusion." — Paul Tandy
71. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn
72. "Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction—from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." — Vince Lipsio
73. "There is nothing impossible to him who will try." — Alexander of Macedon
74. "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." — Lachlan McLachlan
75. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." — Henry David Thoreau
76. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." — Henry David Thoreau
77. "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" — Mary Anne Radmacher
78. "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it; and Virtue is doing it.'" — David Starr Jordan
79. "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." — Pablo Picasso
80. "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." — Pablo Picasso
81. "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." — Pablo Picasso
82. "I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!" — Steve Jobs
83. "Nobody's safe around a writer" — Lanford Wilson
84. "Well done is better than well said." — Benjamin Franklin
85. "We're always one minus sign away from disaster." — Farhad Salmassi
86. "The only free cheese is in the mousetrap." — Russian Proverb via Valeriy Yashchuk
87. "But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up ten." — Roz Savage via Proverbs 24:16
88. "Fall down seven times, get up eight 七転び八起き "Nana korobi ya oki" (literally: seven falls, eight getting up)" — Japanese proverb via Presentation Zen
89. "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." — Samuel Beckett
90. "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." — Samuel Johnson
91. "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." — Carl Sagan
92. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." — Thomas A. Edison
93. "All glory comes from daring to begin." — Eugene F. Ware
94. "You can do anything, but not everything." — David Allen
95. "Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable." — Kurt Vonnegut
96. "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men—true nobility is being superior to your former self." — Ernest Hemmingway
97. "No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Carl Von Clausewitz
98. "Newton's 3rd law corollary: For every shortcut, there is an equal and opposite disaster." — Anonymous
99. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." — William Shakespeare, Hamlet 1-V
100. "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." — Bill Bradley
101. "I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it." — Sir Nicholas Winton
102. "Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
103. "Action is the foundational key to all success." — Pablo Picasso
104. "Physics is much too hard for physicists." — David Hilbert
105. "Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other." — Barack Obama
106. "Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean that you don't have to keep time." — Theloneous Monk to Steve Lacey
107. "When you're swinging, swing some more!" — Theloneous Monk to Steve Lacey
108. "We are always searching. I think that now, we're on the point of finding." — John Coltrane
109. "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." — Rene Magritte
110. "(On Physics) It's not like a 9-to-5 thing. When you're tired you sleep, and when you're not, you do physics." — Sabrina Pasterski
111. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination." — Tommy Lasorda
112. "We will find a way, or make one." — Hannibal
113. "Throw deep, always." – Tom Hanks
114. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." – Thomas Alva Edison
115. "You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." – Rabindranath Tagore
116. "It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. " — Galileo Galilei
117. "Action Expresses Priorities. " — Ghandi
118. "You can see a lot by just observing. " — Yogi Berra
119. "'It can't happen here' is number one on the list of famous last words. " — David Crosby
120. "If it is to be, it is up to me. " — Cory Booker
121. "He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war." — Spartan Warrior Creed
122. "The secret of life is this: When you hear the sound of the cannons, walk toward them." — Marcel France
123. "The stronger you become, the gentler you will be." — Thich Nhat Hanh
124. "The meaning of life is to give life meaning." — Viktor Frankl
125. "What is to give light must endure burning." — Viktor Frankl
126. "He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war." — Spartan Warrior Creed
127. "The secret of life is this: When you hear the sound of the cannons, walk toward them." — Marcel France
128. "The obstacle is the way." — Ryan Holiday, via Marcus Aurelius
129. "Almost everyone is more interesting at 1.5x speed." — Chris Mack
130. "When day comes we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid / The new dawn blooms as we free it / For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it / If only we’re brave enough to be it." — Amanda Gorman
131. "It's easy to make things complex; the complexity is in making things easy." — Fortune Cookie