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Franklin Webber's Opinions Eutaxy.Net home Last modified 2007 Dec 22. |
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An Old Folk Saying:
As fast as the hardware guys make it, the software guys piss it away.
From The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III: Quantum Mechanics: Epilogue:
I wanted most to give you some appreciation of the wonderful world and the physicist's way of looking at it, which, I believe, is a major part of the true culture of modern times. (There are probably professors of other subjects who would object, but I believe they are completely wrong.)
King George III, when told that George Washington would retire to his farm rather than declare himself emperor:
If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.