commit d2c12b7e432584bb14efa02652c4e3f37c52ec1f
parent b5f94087530442ec241c1d95254255400b423bc2
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb@uw.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 00:31:50 -0700
Add quotes
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diff --git a/assets/quotes.txt b/assets/quotes.txt
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"In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them" - John von Neumann
"There is no such thing as a random number — there are only methods to produce random numbers" - John von Neumann
"In our sincerely cynical times, the greatest taboo seems to be sincerity itself" - Slavoj Žižek
-"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power" - Oscar Wilde
"Terror without virtue is destructive; virtue without terror is impotent" - Maximilien Robespierre
"The value of an education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think" - Albert Einstein
"Strange women lying in ponds disturbing swords is no basis for a system of government" - Denis
@@ -203,3 +202,28 @@
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" - Harvey Dent
"I know not what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me" - Isaac Newton
"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard" - Fantastic
+"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it" - Albert Einstein
+"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear"
+"Perfection is the enemy of perfectly adequate" - Jimmy McGill
+"Is math related to science?" - Katy Perry
+"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every women in Africa would be a millionaire" - George Monbiot
+"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand" - Martin Fowler
+"The radio, nuclear weapons, and above all else, the microwave burrito, is the legacy of modern physics" - Bruce Hevly
+"Truth is not a weeny roaster" - Bruce Hevly
+"As soon as you get a parking spot, you are a professor" - Professor Bruce Hevly
+"One problem with this theory is that it's physically nonsense, other than that it's a pretty good model" - Bruce Hevly
+"My father always wanted me to do real work and not be lazy, little did he know I would become an historian" - Bruce Hevly
+"There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page" - ChenNing Yang
+"The only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down" - Alex Jason
+"Truth is in the eye of the beholder" - Ruth Hubbard
+"Laws change depending on who's making them, but justice is justice" - Odo
+"Trump hears that you don't like what Trump is doing" - Donald Trump
+"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs" - Ansel Adams
+"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan
+"Why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his" - Robert G Ingersoll
+"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably" - Aaron Satie
+"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt" - Joseph Cooper
+"We’re still pioneers, we’ve barely begun. Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, cause our destiny lies above us" - Joseph Cooper
+"Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here" - Joseph Cooper
+"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same" - Donald Trump
+"Do not mistake composer for ease" - Tuvok
