"Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to
be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it
doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.
What do you assume?"
-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
"All your life, you live so close to the truth, it becomes a permanent blur
in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline, it's like
being ambushed by a grotesque."
-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
"In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false."
--unknown
"I used to think math was no fun
'Cause I couldn't see how it was done.
Now Euler's my hero
For I now see why 0
=e^(i*pi) + 1."
--Unknown
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There
must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occured to you that
you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering - stamped into one's
memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occured to me at all.
--Tom Stoppard/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
--The Little Prince
". . . the different branches of arithmetic - Ambition, Discraction, Uglification,
and Derision. . ."
--Alice in Wonderland
"Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that King were to wake,
you'd go out -bang!- just like a candle!"
--Through the Looking Glass
"What does it matter where my body happens to be? My mind goes on working
just the same."
--Through the Looking Glass
"But I don't want to go amoung mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat: "We're all mad here.
I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" Said Alice.
"You must be," said the cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
--Alice in Wonderland
Sam: "You don't like raisins?"
Joon: "Not really"
Sam: "Why?"
Joon: "They used to be fat and juicy, and now they're twisted like they've had
their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet but really they're just humiliated
grapes."
--Benny and Joon
"Zen is probably not sticky on one side."
"A tetrahedron is probably not dangerous "
-- wisdom from the Twenty Questions Server at http://www.20q.net