Hey guys,
What are some of your favorite quotes or poems? Here are some of mine:
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. -Max Planck
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. -Wernher Von Braun
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. -Nikola Tesla
And my favorite poems are:
Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen
The conquerer worm by Edgar Allan Poe
(These two poems are brilliant IMO, they really are worth taking a look at)
Quotes:
- Short cuts make for long delays
- Done is better than perfect
- Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. ~Japanese proverb
- I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ~Robert Frost
Poems:
- The Raven (I know, not very original...)
- Kubilah Khan
- Ulysses
"Everybody's got a plan...till I hit em"- Iron Mike Tyson
"No battle plan has ever survived first contact with the enemy" - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
I wrote up a huge post about how much I like the poem The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I had pulled out passages that have special meaning to me, did little research, expressed my thoughts. etc. it was a bunch of work. And them somehow I clicked off the page and lost everything.
"snip......
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dam body. The smell, you know, that gasoline smell, the whole hill smelled like - victory." -- Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
.....snip
I, for one, recognize and applaud your new-found abilty !This thread only inspires my humor,... (I am practicing leaving useless messages,...)
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