Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Stumbling

Recent stumbling (www.stumbleupon.com) turned up many interesting things, of which I remembered to save only one :


http://www.amk.ca/quotations/quotations.txt
Its a page of quotations. It fit my taste exactly, general human nature and philosophy, along with a dose of mathematics, physics and computer science. Here's one I liked:


K is for KENGHIS KHAN. *He* was a very *nice* person. History has no record of
him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Quotes are mostly interesting. Arthur Conan Doyle manages to be completely wrong though - the point of a theory is to be able to make it before looking at data and allowing for the data to falsify. Constructing theory based on data is the disdainful business school practice.

Arvind