#Winning Quotes #Goes On Quotes
“Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things. You don't go and get swept off your feet. That's not your job and that's not why you're hired. So if you get so mesmerized that you forget to do what you're supposed to do, whether it's to open the cargo door of the space shuttle or configure something inside, then you should not be there as a professional operator.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.”
“FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.”
“Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.”
“We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.”
“Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.”
Source : Joseph Silk (2008). “The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology”, p.12, OUP Oxford
“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”
“The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.”
David Palmer squash player
Jahangir Mughal Emperor
Samina Baig
