Bookhammer Lewes Quotes & Sayings

The Feynman Dilemma
A diner says to a waiter, "What's this fly doing in my soup?" And the waiter says, "It looks like the backstroke." Yet if the same scene is viewed while plunging into a black hole at the speed of light, it will look like a Mickey Mouse lunch pail from the thirties, except that Mickey's head has been replaced by a Lincoln penny — Steve Martin

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care. — Kanye West

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
— Louis Zukofsky

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole
and yet
and yet
... — Lewis Carroll

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do. — Ravi Zacharias

The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him. — Jay Leno

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves — Stephen Covey

It worried him. Like him, she had to be exhausted. She smelled like gasoline; her clothes were torn. She had a small white bandage on her forehead where the EMT had cleaned her cut. Dirt smudged her face, her arms, her legs. He knew she still didn't have any underwear, and for the first time, he felt bad about it. Real bad. He wanted to protect her, make her feel secure, keep her from harm - and all he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up. — Tara Janzen

I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it. — Drew Houston

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects. — Alistair Cockburn

I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive. — Peace Pilgrim

Jewish men don't know anything. — Marilyn Monroe