Johnny Carson Quotes

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Grim Cris

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I know you’ve been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: “Are your ready?”

Best Albert Einstein Quotes

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Grim Cris

Let me share with you some of the best Albert Einstein Quotes. Let me inspire you. Have a nice december! :)

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be acheved by understanding.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Mark Twain Quotes

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Grim Cris

Today we celebrate Mark Twain’s birthday in our own, favorite way: sharing quotes. Let me show you some wonderful inspirational Mark Twain Quotes.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat.

Richard Carlson Quotes

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Grim Cris

Circumstances don’t make a person; they reveal him or her.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart… it comes from being alive.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness… an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Louis Daguerre Quotes

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Grim Cris

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

Here, at FIW Quotes, we love… quotes, of course. Quotes are those special words that are great with some photos. We love photos like we love quotes. That’s why we want to celebrate Louis Daguerre birthday. Who was Louis Daguerre? We (and the entire World) call him the father of photography.

Happy birthday, Louis Daguerre! We found only one quote from him, but we need to appreciate his art because we all use photos nowadays.

Marie Curie Quotes

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Grim Cris

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Wise Carl Jung Quotes

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Grim Cris

Carl Gustav Jung was a psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Today I want to share with you his wise toughts. Enjoy this list of wise Carl Jung Quotes and, if you like them, choose your favorite. Thanks!

A “scream” is always just that – a noise and not music.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Grim Cris

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Orson Welles Quotes

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Grim Cris

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles Quotes

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles Quotes

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. – Orson Welles Quotes

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. – Orson Welles Quotes

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. – Orson Welles Quotes

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. – Orson Welles Quotes

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him. – Orson Welles Quotes

Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one! – Orson Welles Quotes

Fake is as old as the Eden tree. – Orson Welles Quotes

Gluttony is not a secret vice. – Orson Welles Quotes

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. – Orson Welles Quotes

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t pray because I don’t want to bore God. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. – Orson Welles Quotes

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them. – Orson Welles Quotes

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. – Orson Welles Quotes

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. – Orson Welles Quotes

I have an unfortunate personality. – Orson Welles Quotes

Dennis Ritchie Quotes

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Grim Cris

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open – any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

I’m just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

I’m not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

I’ve done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

Over the past several years, I’ve been more in a managerial role.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn’t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.