Miscellaneous Musings

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.” - Robert Benchley

“Young man, in math you don’t understand things, you just get used to it! ” - John Von Neumann

“You haven't lived until you died in New York.” - Alexander Woollcott

“The bottle of Irish whiskey said to me, ‘Trust me, you know how to dance.’ ” - Peter DeArmond

“Nobody understands quantum theory.” - Richard Feynman

“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice” - Albert Einstein

“Stop telling God what to do.” - Niels Bohr

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” - Max Planck

“If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.” - Niels Bohr

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” - Potter Stewart

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” - James Thurber

"In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do." - C.S. Lewis

“It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.” - Michio Kaku

“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.”    - Kurt Gödel

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” - E.B. White

“Ah Facebook, where scratch-and-sniff research is accepted as fact even when it stinks, where enlightenment comes from existential pseudoscience supported by catchphrases that you forget in 30 seconds, where labels and pejoratives are the norm, where you can wish for peace and love but post one-sided ‘facts’ that stir up a mob reaction, and where all this happens because people who lack critical thinking skills cannot accept that my mother’s fudge recipe is better than yours and always will be.”  - Peter DeArmond

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” - Robert Benchley

“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” - George Orwell

“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” - James Thurber

"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks" - Albert Einstein

“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.” - James Thurber

“Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.” - Dorothy Parker

“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.” - James Thurber

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.” - Ring Lardner

“The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.” - James Thurber

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” — Friedrich Hegel

“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.” - Ring Lardner

“I asked my friend how long he’s been taking Prevagen and he said, ‘As long as I can remember.’”

- Peter DeArmond

“ ‘Are you lost, Daddy?’ I asked tenderly. ‘Shut up,’ he explained.” - Ring Lardner

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.” - Damon Runyon

“I might like opera if it weren’t for all the singing.” - Peter DeArmond

“Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid.” - Damon Runyon

“I like to have a martini, two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.” - Dorothy Parker

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.” - Damon Runyon

“That woman speaks 18 languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.” - Dorothy Parker

“Extremists and conspiracy theorists expect you to follow them through their vapor trail of flawed reasoning.” - Peter DeArmond

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” - Dorothy Parker

Anyone who seriously says, “I’m a very stable genius” is neither stable nor a genius.  - Peter DeArmond

“If you take a dementia test and think it's an IQ test, then I'm sorry to say you failed both the IQ test and the dementia test.” - Seth Myers

“The only thing sadder than this vindictive, petulant child is the über loyalist group that refuses to see the truth of his behavior and the harm it causes.” - Peter DeArmond

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” - Dorothy Parker

“If attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler.” - Author unknown

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker

“It is fittingly ironic that the person who loves to call other people losers has become the biggest loser of all.” - Peter DeArmond

“The Republican Party that I want to get back to is the one that believes in freedom and truth and not one that attacks people who don't swear 100 percent fealty to the Dear Leader.” - former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” - C.S. Lewis

“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.” - Mark Twain

“There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” - Soren Kierkegaard

“The truth is still the truth, even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie, even if everyone believes it.” -  Spoken by the character Kelly Jones in the movie Fly Me to the Moon

“A half truth is a whole lie.” - Yiddish proverb

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” (Author Unknown)

“We live in the age of ever-shortening attention spans in which 30-second goofy videos exhort us to “Wait for it” or “Watch ’til the end.” Maybe I should produce a video that explains the meaning of “exhort,” but you’ll have to wait for it.” - Peter DeArmond

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” - Mark Twain

“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, 

For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”    ― G.K. Chesterton

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” - Harper Lee