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The following cartoons are mostly from SPEED BUMP by Dave Coverly, and BIZARRO by Dan Piraro, and they all geekish, sorry.how do you like your new smoking habit? - Dilbert. how to induce the subject to stop breathing. check out the airheads scared of getting wet. ambiguous toilet/computer terminology. what happened to the three average men. engineers withhold info - Dilbert. can I interest you in an upgrade? time to ween yourself off milk. how the driver's licence photographer is chosen. Picasso's optometrist almost ruins him. Anarchists unite - waaaait a minute. you're listening to your calculator. The following sayings are randomly collected.Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. - Albert Einstein If you put a spoonful of wine into a barrel of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage into a barrel of wine, you get sewage. - Schopenhauer's law of entropy To lead people, walk behind them. In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. Those who have finished learning find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world, we learn that we are spirits, not animals and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. - Winston Churchill A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. - Thomas Jefferson Incidentally interesting sayings from the wisdom of Yoda: When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can. Control, control. You must learn control. If you choose the quick and easy path...you will become an agent of evil. Beware of the dark side. Anger...fear...aggression. Once you start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny, consume you it will.. The best of man is like water, So the sage: He does not contend, and none contend against him. - Lao Tze Varia.A good ear for music and a taste for music are two very different things which are often confounded; and so is comprehending and enjoying every object of sense and sentiment. - Lord Grenville (1554-1628), English poet. If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions. - Winston Churchill When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do? - John Maynard Keynes, reacting to a charge by a critic that he was contradicting himself. We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don't know . . . and those who don't know they don't know. - John Kenneth Galbraith One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is a voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. - Bertrand Russell. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more [lost - highly developed in the mature than the young? - source lost] It is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be [lost - reminded than instructed? - source lost Johnson?] Just as our success in the industrial age depended on a school system that taught us how to read and write, add and subtract, our success in the information age depends on a school system that teaches us how to manage information, utilize technologies, innovate and - above all - think. - Bank of Montreal chairman Matthew Barrett. I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the question "1". After much reflection, I put a bracket around it thus: "(1)". But thereafter I could not think of anything that was either relevant or true....It was from these slender indications of scholarship that Mr. Welldon drew the conclusion that I was worthy to pass into Harrow. It is very much to his credit. - Winston Churchill in My Early Life (1930). Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. - Taoist I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randell Jarrell. Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. - Ogden Nash. I have selected several cartoons from the editorial pages of the Globe and Mail (permission to post being applied for) - thoughtful? nahh - just entertains a Water Resources Engineering professor?Quebec hydro engineers heroics during ice storm. an Iraqi message to the Kurds? A U.S. message to Saddam? Personally I prefer email whoaa - population problem with conservation leave cod alone and they'll recover. |
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