xlink29
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
- Guy Davenport

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)

"The mistakes are all waiting to be made."
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)


Anthrax (band) Aphex Twin Fiona Apple Aqua (band) Tina Arena Art Of Noise Ashanti (artist) Asia (band) ATC (band) Atheist (band) Atlanta Rhythm Section The B.G. B2K Babyface Bachman Turner Overdrive Badfinger Bad Brains Erykah Badu Bananarama Buju Banton Barenaked Ladies Basia Toni Basil Shirley Bassey Bay City Rollers The Beatles Beck The Bee Gees Beenie Man Lou Bega Behemoth (band) Bell Biv Devoe Belly (band) Benzino Berlin Beyonce The Big Bopper Big Daddy Kane Big Punisher Billy Talent Biz Markie Cilla Black Clint Black Black Eyed Peas Black Oak Arkansas Blackstreet Blind Melon Black Sabbath Blaque Blindside Blink-182 Bloodhound Gang Kurtis Blow