Quotes

"I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."- Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.- Douglas Adams

"lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today." - Isambard K. Brunel

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "Winston Churchill

"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person." Michael Palin

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." Leonardo da Vinci

"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right." Ralph Vaughan Williams

"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it." Ralph Vaughan Williams

"I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant." Ralph Vaughan Williams

"There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require." Edward Elgar

"You should really mean make demands on their musicality, just as you make demands on the musicians' musicality." Peter Maxwell Davies

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." Leonard Bernstein

"We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands." Johann Nepomuk Hummel

"Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter." - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd).

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - General John Sedgwick (1813-1864), last words

"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."- Georges Danton (1759-1794), to his executioner

"Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something."- Pancho Villa (1877-1923), last words

"Sibelius would have used Sibelius" - Michael Kamen

"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming."
- Guy Kawasaki

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981

"There is no better indication of being Manx than asking the question "got any skeet" and then summing it up by saying ", at ya?"

"It’s the sophisticated delivery of Skeet that sets it apart from mere gossip" - Kerry Sharpe

"The whole [University] should be mac-based. In fact, the whole world should be mac-based!"