Anonymous
- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
- What if there were no such thing as a hypothetical situation?
- Before we put the motion 'that the motion be now put', should we not first put the motion "that the motion 'that the motion be now put' be now put?"
(Chairman of a meeting of the Society of Logicians)
- The more you know, the less you think you know.
See Socrates
- "These mines must be stored with the bottom at the top. For clarification, the top of the container has been labelled bottom."
(Admiralty instruction issued during the Second World War. Taken from, Beaurocrats - How to annoy them. By R T Fishall.)
- "Do not turn upside down."
(Warning on Tesco's Tiramisu dessert - printed on bottom.)
- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
- There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
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- The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Said to have been traced to a lost treatise of Empedocles; quoted in the 'Roman de la Rose' and by St Bonaventura in 'Itinerarius Mentis in Deum'.
- Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
- In the next sentence, the number of occurences of 0 is 1,
of 1 is 7, of 2 is 4, of 3 is 1, of 4 is 1, of 5 is 1,
of 6 is 1, of 7 is 1, of 8 is 2, and of 9 is 1.
In the previous sentence, the number of occurences of 0 is 1,
of 1 is 8, of 2 is 2, of 3 is 1, of 4 is 2, of 5 is 1,
of 6 is 1, of 7 is 2, of 8 is 1, and of 9 is 1.
(For more information about self-referential sentences click HERE.)
- Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
- The average human has about one breast and one testicle.
From Statistics 101.
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
- Women who want to be equal to men have no ambition.
- "Everyone loves to argue with Milton, particularly when he's not there."
Saying at Chicago University, about the economist Milton Friedman who lectured there.
- Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
- There are 10 sorts of people in the world: people who understand binary, and people who don't.
- Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
17th Century proverb
- You never know what's going to happen yesterday.
Russian saying
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