~Reflecting Time
posted by Optikal at 11:59 PM
Friday, July 28, 2006
Facts - Quotes - Comments
-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
-Our eyes never grow, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
-A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
-The most common blood type in the world is type O.
-The rarest blood type in the world is type A-H, less than 12 people have it.
-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
-You consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp.
-It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery provides you with.
-Many people think eating fish makes you more intelligent.(sorry - it doesn't)
-Some lions mate 50 times a day.
-No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver.
-The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
-Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
-Red does not make bulls angry, bulls are colour blind.
-The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
-Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
-In the Scottish language Gaidhlig (Gaelic), there is no word for 'yes' or 'no'.
-The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants.
-The word 'rhythm' has no vowels.
-It is commonly believed that acne is caused or made worse by poor diet or poor hygiene.
-Number of lottery combinations (6 numbers from 49): 13,983,816 The first million decimal places of pi!
-"Almost" is the longest word with all the letters in alphabetical order.
-Satan is an anagram of Santa.
-All polar bears are left-handed.
-Dreamt is the only word ending in "mt."
-Crocodiles have 2 penises...
-A pig's orgasm can last 30 minutes..
-The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
-Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
-111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321.
-The number 9,876,543,210 has 72 factors.
-An ant can lift 50 times its own weight & can pull 30 times its own weight.
-Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to size)
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
-The human brain is about 85% water.
-Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
-Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
-Smokers need twice as much vitamin C (80mg) as non-smokers (40mg) daily.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-You blink about 25,000 times a day.
-Blonds have more hair than dark haired people do.
-The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
-When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
-The average human eats 8 spiders in his/ her lifetime at night.
-Flies are deaf.
-Slugs have 4 noses.
-Starfish have no brains.
-Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
-Pencils contain graphite or carbon, NOT lead.
-If you had a lead pencil you would have great difficulty writing with it.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
-Bananas don’t grow on trees.
-There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-The 'you are here arrow' on a map is called the IDEO locater.
-A person who practises karate is called a karateka.
-A person who practices judo is called a judoka.
-Dolphins and humans are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.
-Giraffes & rats can go without water longer than a camel can.
- ..-40 degrees Celsius equals -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
-The gas methane can be found from Uranus.
-From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
-The earth rotates east on its axis.
-Saturn is the only planet that could float on water.
-The 21st century started in 2001, not 2000.
-On AOL, women outnumber men.
-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
-The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky.
-There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
-A dentist invented the electric chair.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-A watched clock never boils..
-In the constellation of Pisces, 100 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are smashing together in a dramatic demonstration of our far future: when the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy.
-Lightening is 3 times hotter than the surface of the sun. The surface temperature of our sun is around 10,000 degrees Farenheit, while lightening is 30,000 degrees.
-A light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year..about 9.46 million million kilometers.
-For North America the Earth is actually closer to the Sun in the Winter.
-Stars twinkle because the light we see coming from the stars travels through the atmosphere around the earth and there is turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
-If you were to drive a car at 100 kilometers an hour, 24 hours a day then you could reach the sun in about 3 years.
-If we could travel in a space ship at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per hour, it would take over 88,000 years to reach the nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri.
-Our sun is moving at 12 miles-per-second towards the constellation Hercules.
-If the sun were the size of the dot over a letter "i", the nearest star would be a dot 10 miles away.
-Every square yard of the sun's surface sends out energy equal to the power of 700 automobiles. About one two-billionth of this energy actually reaches us.
-A pulsar is a neutron star that emits pulsed radio signals. The first pulsar was discovered in 1967.
-A protostar is a portion of a nebula that is about to form into a new star.
-A faculae is an area on the surface of a star that appears brighter by comparison to surrounding regions.
-Some stars are 600,000 times as bright as our own sun.
-Of the 92 "natural" elements on Earth, 2/3 have been found in the sun. The rest are probably present as well.
-The evening star is actually a planet, usually Mercury or Venus, when seen in the western sky just after sunset.
-Mercury is more dense than any object in the solar system, save Earth.
-Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, with temperatures reaching 860 degrees Fahrenheit! It is so hot, that it can melt lead!
-Venus has an extensive atmosphere with the high albedo of 76%, which completely covers and hides the surface.
-The canals of Mars, now known to be an optical illusion, were once touted as evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
-The Martian "day" is only slightly longer than a day on Earth. On Mars, a day is 24 hours, 37 minutes, 23 seconds long whereas on Earth, a day is 23 hours 56 minutes, 04 seconds long.
-Uranus is unique among the planets in that its equitorial plane is almost perpendicular to the orbital plane.
-Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
-I'll sleep when I'm dead - Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
-There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
-When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
-While we are postponing, life speeds by - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
-First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
-Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die - Mel Brooks
-Wit is educated insolence - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
-The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is actually redshifted towards us. That means that the Milky Way and Andromeda are rushing towards each other.
-Quasars are the most distant objects in the known universe.
-If you could fly across our Galaxy from one side to the other at light speed, it would take 100,000 years to make the trip.
-The largest galaxy discovered yet is over 137 Million light years across.
-The formula for determining magnification is M= FT / FE where M = Magnification, FT - Focal Length of telescope, and FE = Focal Length of eyepiece. Be sure to convert all numbers to similar convention; metric or otherwise.
-The first telescope was put to practical use in 1609 by Galileo. It was a simple refractor.
-Death is more universal the life, everyone dies, not everyone lives.
-Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
-War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased god to afflict men.
-It is well war is terrible, or we should get to fond of it.
-Was is a series of disasters which results in a winner.
-It is not that i am afraid to die, i just don't want to be there when it happens.
-Once the game is over, the king and pawn go back in the same box.
-The 200-inch mirror for the telescope on Palomar Mountain weights over 14 tons and is 27-inches thick. The telescope gathers 640,000 times as much light as the human eye.
-Astronomy is considered a "passive" science compared to most others because knowledge is based mostly upon observation rather than experimentation.
-Absolute Magnitude is the magnitude that any star would have if it were placed exactly 10 parsecs from the observer.
-Light from the Sun takes eight minutes to reach Earth. The light we see today from the next nearest star was emitted about four years ago. -Light from the nearest galaxy like our own, Andromeda, takes over 2 million years to reach us.
-By studying the properties of galaxies at different epochs, we can map the evolution of the universe.
-Almost any valid C program is also a valid C++ program and, in fact, the addition of about 12 keywords is the only reason that some C programs will not compile and execute as a C++ program.
-Intel temporarily cut its chip set production to focus on mobile products such as Centrino.
-Avoid touching the card-edge-connectors on Ram modules or expansion boards and the top of your cpu before you install the heat sink.
-Biometric fingerprint readers make it easier to log into your pc.
-A survey showed half of all US firms dealt with computer porn last year, and offenders were fired in 44% of the cases.
-Paper was made in the second century BC in China. The process was a closely guarded secret until the 7th century where it spread to Japan, and later to Arabia. It reached Europe when the Arabs invaded Spain in 711.
-Simple dobsonian telescopes are cheap, practical telescopes for beginner and intermediate observers. -Many seasoned observers also use large dobsonians.
-One parsec is equal to 19.2 million million miles.
-Plasma is an ionized gas.
-Astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs make actual and important contributions to the science.
-In general the left and right hemispheres of your brain process information in different ways. We tend to process information using our dominant side. However, the learning process is enhanced when all of our senses are used. This includes using your less dominate hemisphere.
-If you are left-brained, you would enjoy making a master schedule and doing daily planning. You complete tasks in order and take pleasure in checking them off when they are accomplished. Likewise, learning things in sequence is relatively easy for you ie spelling.
-If you are right-brained,you may flit from one task to another. You will get just as much done if not more but perhaps without having addressed priorities. An assignment may be late or incomplete, not because you weren't working, but because you were working on something else.
-The left brain has no trouble processing symbols. Many academic pursuits deal with symbols such as letters, words, and mathematical notations. The left-brained person tends to be comfortable with linguistic and mathematical endeavors.
-The right brain, on the other hand, wants things to be concrete. The right-brained person wants to see, feel, or touch the real object. -Right-brained people may have had trouble learning to read using phonics. They prefer to see words in context and to see how the formula works.
-The first family of viruses for windows Vista were unleashed after it was in beta for only a week, subsequently microsoft will cut the potential target, the Monad scripting shell, from Vista's first general release.
-Mirrors, your body and chicken wire in the walls can block wifi radio signals.
-A study has shown most blog visitors are young wealthy people.
-Microsofts proposed new RFID postal system will allow both the sender an receiver to track the exact location of the package.
-Left-brained people have little trouble expressing themselves in words. Right-brained people may know what they mean but often have trouble finding the right words.
-The pencil was invented independently around 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Contre of France and Joseph Hardtmuth of Austria.
-Radio waves travel at the speed of light (approx.186,000mps). The frequency of a wave is measured in hertz, the terms for thousands and millions of cycles per seconds are 'kilohertz' and 'megahertz'.
-Radio waves consist of two components, a varying magnetic field and a varying electric field, which lie @ right angles to each other, the fields need no supporting medium, such as air, and can be transmitted through space.
-Vaccine, from the latin 'vacca', which means cow.
-The oldest known watch was made in 1504 by Peter Henlein of Nuremburg, Germany, and is now in the Imperial Hall, Philadelphia.
-Random facts are well known for stimulating your brain. They help keep your brain younger, sharper, and generally more pleasant to be around.
-The average person spends 1 - 2 months during a lifetime looking aimlessly into the fridge for something to eat.
-If a man watches a woman undress in front of a window, he can be arrested as a peeping tom, if a woman watches a man undress in front of a window, she can have him arrested for indecent exposure.
-In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
-Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
-The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
-You are a cosmic thought manifested into form to play the game of life..
-No president of the United States was an only child.
-An axiom is a statement universally accepted as true, like an established principal or law of science.
-A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
-Experience: A name we give to our mistakes.
-Happiness can't buy money.
-You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
-Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
-The only difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is your point of view.
-Inflation is a result of legalized counterfeiting.
-The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
-It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one...
-Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
-Money can't buy happiness, but allows a choice of misery.
-The chances of your dying on the trip to buy your Lotto ticket is greater than your chance of winning..
-If you sit around anywhere long enough, you'll die.
-Experience teaches you to recognize a mistake when you've made it again.
-Bride in the old english means 'cook', a groom on the other hand means 'Child', make of that what you will..
-"Maturity is knowing when and where to be immature."
-"People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them."
-"God loves stupid people, that's why he made so many."
-"The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it's open."
-"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page."
-"Achievement is a balance between desire to win and fear of failure."
-"It's so easy to let the fear of failure to get the upper hand and to shrink into passivity and negative thinking."
-"If you can't imagine it, you can't do it."
-"People may not remember what you said or what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel!"
-"The Sanskrit word 'Namaste' means 'I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honor the place in you of love, of truth, of peace, and of light, and when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. <<>>"
-"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-"To live a creative life, we must face our fear of being wrong."
-"Aim for success, not perfection. It is by being wrong often that we learn new things and move forward with our lives."
-"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
-"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
-"Man cannot discover new lands without losing sight of the shore."
-"One ounce of action is worth more than a ton of theory."
-"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do"
-"Tell me and I may forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand."
-"The Dictionary is the only place where success comes before work."
-"Age is relative - when you're over the hill, you pick up speed."
-"Tell the truth, there's less to remember."
-"An error only becomes a mistake, when you choose to ignore it."
-"There are two ways to be rich - make more or desire less."
-"Every day is a great a day, just some are greater than others."
-"Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't, you are right !"
-"The man who smiles when everything goes wrong, has just thought of someone to blame it on"
-"Never put off until tomorrow, that which can be completely avoided."
-"There can be no rainbow without rain."
-"You're not a failure because you didn't make it, you're a success because you tried."
-"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday, and all is well."
-"If life gives you lemons, then make lemonade."
-"If ignorance is bliss, then why aren't more people happy?"
-"Your mind is like a parachute - It works best when open."
-"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've already got."
-"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-"Ability is what you're capable of doing, motivation determines what you do, attitude determines how well you do it."
-"Leadership is doing what is right when no-one is watching."
-"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
-"The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot."
-"He who asks questions is a fool for a minute, he who doesn't is a fool for life."
-"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."
-"The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one."
-"No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less Edgar Watson Howe"
-"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power, and magic"
-"Even if you are on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there."
-"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"
-"Heaven isn't a place, it's a feeling"
-"Our enemies are sacred because they make us strong"
-"What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now"
-"If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail"
-"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered"
-"You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair"
-"When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first."
-"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important"
-"To a shaman imagination is a vehicle that sends thoughts and feelings to make real changes in the physical world"
-"When we judge something we only prove that we have an incomplete view of it"
-"You are not your thoughts!"
-"Reality is where your consciousness is located"
-"The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth"
-"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
-"Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes"
-"Government is like gravity, it doesn't matter whether you believe in it or not, accept it"
-"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect"
-"Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed"
-"Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill"
-"Some things have to be believed to be seen"
-"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital"
-"A word to the wise is... unnecessary"
-"Dreams are pictures of feelings."
-"Fortune knocks but once, misfortune has much more patience"
-"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice."
<<< "I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with" >>> Plato...427-347 bc
-"The faults of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive"
-"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself."
-"Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?"
-"God does not play dice with the universe."
-"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-"Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary."
-"I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research."
-"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."
-"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
-"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
-"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. "
-"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
-"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science"
-"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Never the less, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact perdiction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
-"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
-"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside"
-"I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
-"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
-"Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality".
-"I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
-"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
-"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."
-"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
-"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber."
-"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
-"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
-"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
-"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
-"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
-"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." or sometimes quoted as "God does not play dice with the universe."
-"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
-"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
-"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
-"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
-"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
-"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
-"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
-"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
-"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
-"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
-"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy."
-"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
-"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
-"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people ."
-"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others ."
-"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while ."
-"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within ."
-"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
-"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism"
-"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
-"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
-"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
-"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
-"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
---When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!---
-"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
-"Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. "
-"The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us."
-"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
-"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty ."
-"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge ."
-"The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?"
-"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." (So True)
-"One should guard against inculcating a young man {or woman} with the idea that success is the aim of life, for a successful man normally receives from his peers an incomparibly greater portion than than the services he has been able to render them deserve. The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. The most important motive for study at school, at the university, and in life is the pleasure of working and thereby obtaining results which will serve the community. The most important task for our educators is to awaken and encourage these psychological forces in a young man {or woman}. Such a basis alone can lead to the joy of possessing one of the most precious assets in the world - knowledge or artistic skill."
-"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
-"Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels."
-"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world."
-"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. "
-"The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."
-"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." (1929)
-"Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become in jurious for the individual and for the community. "
-Experience is a tough teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
-War isn't about who is right, it is about who is left.
-A man who wont die for something is not fit to live.
-You might as well fall flat on your face, as lean over too far backwards.
-In war there is no substitute for victory.
-Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
-A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic..
-The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
-Death is a very dull, drairy affair, my advice is to have nothing what-so-ever to do with it.
-The object is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.. G.C.Patton
-Every war we find a new way to kill.
-I don't believe in a fate that falls on men, however i believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-Much good work is lost for lack of a little more.
-Man must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
-War is a game played with a smile, if you cant smile, grin, if you cant grin, stay out of the way till you can.
-Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
-Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
-Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
-Don't be so humble - you are not that great - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
-This book fills a much-needed gap - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
-The full use of your powers along lines of excellence - definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
-I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart - e e cummings (1894-1962)
-Give me a museum and I'll fill it - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
-In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
-I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
-Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
-In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
-Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
-Do or do not, there is no 'try' - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
-The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed - George Burns (1896-1996)
-I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
-The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense - Edsgar Dijkstra
-A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
-Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
-The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
-If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
-Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
-The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
-Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego' - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
-Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
-I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song.
-Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
-Talent does what it can; genius does what it must - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
-The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed' - Unknown
-Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship - Sharon Stone
-If you are going through hell, keep going - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
-He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how' - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
-I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
-Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh - Voltaire (1694-1778)
-He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
-I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
-I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
-When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
-How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
-I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
-Maybe this world is another planet's Hell - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
-Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
-Black holes are where God divided by zero - Steven Wright
-It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966)
-The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true - James Branch Cabell
-All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
-You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
-I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth - Umberto Eco
-People that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
-The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working - Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
-There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life - Frank Zappa
-Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint Exupery
-It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts - G. B. Burgin
-Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action - Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
-To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ) - Jimi Hendrix
-It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough - Mario Andretti.
-I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925
-My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
-It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
-In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience - W.B. Prescott
-It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
-A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
-From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
-In the end, everything is a gag - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
-I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known - Walt Disney (1901-1966)
-If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
-An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
-Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug - Jon Lithgow
-Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories - John Wilmot
-There's nothing that keeps its youth,So far as I know, but a tree and truth - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
-It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
-Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
-A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward - Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
-By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates
-The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance - Socrates
-I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either - Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)
-Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
-Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
-The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
-A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
-An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
-Strychnine was in Hitler's anti-gas pills which he took daily. It was suspected his doctor was trying to assassinate him slowly..
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-Random facts have always made for good conversation starters. Have an ample supply of random facts to grease your social interactions. Careful, however, not to be overdo it, as Confucious says, "Man who tell too many light bulb jokes soon burn out."
-In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."
-Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
-The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
-A battalion is about 5,000 men.
-China has more English speakers than the United States.
-A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
-Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
-The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
-The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
-The US Navy submarine have been using active sonar technology, a deafening burst of noise that is dangerous even 300 miles from it's source. Some mid-frequency sonar systems can put out over 235 decibels, about as loud as a rocket launch.Animals for hundreds of miles literally jump out of the water to try to avoid the sound. The effects vary, causing internal bleeding and bursting organs including lungs and eardrums. Next time you see news about beached dolphins, now you know why.
-Cat's urine glows under a black light.
-Thai researchers have succeeded in generating electricity from natural gas made from elephant dung.
-Can't see the morons for the trees Illinois State University has cleared away the trees in front of Stevenson Hall so they can begin construction of the sculptured centerpiece of its Fell Arboretum, an area set aside for the preservation and study of trees. -- Bonehead of the Millennium Award
-When the U.S. began the occupation of Iraq 72% of Americans thought that Saddam Hussein ORDERED the September 11th attacks, despite the fact that none of these people ever saw any evidence to support it. In the realm of the uniformed, having a leader is more important than having facts.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female. It is not known how the angler got this beast home or how he (we can assume it's a he, can't we?) fit it in the freezer.
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-In the ant kingdom some ants are soldiers, or army ants. These soldier ants are so genetically designed to fight, pinch, clamp and sting their giant pincers prevent them from feeding themselves. They must rely on other ants to feed them.
-It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
-An ostrich does not stick it's head in a hole to hide.
-Although bourbon is Kentucky's leading export and its production directly employs thousands of people, it is illegal to buy the product in the very counties in which it is produced. They are all, to this day, still dry.
-BEIJING, July 22(Xinhuanet)-A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only, like humans, after a near death experience. Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv, was diagnosed with severe stomach flu with three other monkeys and slipped into critical condition two weeks ago. CRIENGLISH.com reported Thursday. After intensive treatment, her condition stabilized. But to everyone's surprise, when she was released from the clinic, she began walking upright like a human. Her veterinarian says the only possible explanation is that the monkey suffered brain damage from the illness.
-A tortoise can live up to 140 years old. Amazingly some do despite the fact that a tortoise must never fall on it's back, because a tortoise on it's back is a dead tortoise.
-Siamese fighting fish must be kept isolated because they will fight, immediately, often to the death. In an experiment, 2 fish were dropped in a lake. Would this be enough space? Were these tiny fish interested in exploring? No, immediately started fighting.
-A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
-A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
-Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-Hitler slept in and could not be woken when the beaches of Normandy (10 years of Parkinson causes mental inflexibility in all patients) were stormed. and refused to send reinforcements for over 48 hours.
-A cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
-Scientists revealed that the world's oceans have soaked up half of the carbon dioxide pumped into the air by human activities since the beginning of the industrial age, according to two new studies.
-His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
-If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
-I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
-People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
-Give me chastity and continence, but not yet - Saint Augustine (354-430)
-Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use - Galileo Galilei
-The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work - Emile Zola (1840-1902)
-Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
-In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400 day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
-The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.
-The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
-The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
-The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
-Health regulators estimated that up to 93 percent of silicone breast implants ruptured within 10 years.
-A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
-Why don't humans get along? Principled people with high 'morals' or 'values', plenty of 'devotion', 'passion' etc., and limited information. Those with heavy 'emotional' investments in a particular point of view are most troublesome.
-The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
-The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building(they may have fixed the problem by now..)
-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
-A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
-Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.
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-ABN AMRO- In the 1960s, the Nederlandse Handelmaatschappij (Dutch Trading Society 1824) and the Twentsche Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank Nederland ( ABN General Bank of the Netherlands). In 1966, the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank merged to form the Amro Bank. In 1991, ABNand Amro Bank merged to form ABN AMRO.
-Acccenture- Accent on the Future. Greater-than 'accent' over the logo's t points forward towards the future. The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norwayas part of a internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Prior to January 1, 2001 the company was called Andersen Consulting.
-Adidas- from the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
-Adobe- came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.
-AltaVista- Spanish for "high view".
-Amazon.com- Founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company to Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online bookstore as opposed to the then prevalent bookstores. (Alternative: It is said that Jeff Bezos named his book store Amazon simply to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo at the time. Yahoo listed entries alphabetically, and thus Amazon would always appear above its competitors in the relevant categories it was listed in).
-AMD- Advanced Micro Devices.
-Apache- The name was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé), well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. Secondarily, and more popularly (though incorrectly) accepted, it's considered a cute name that stuck: its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'a patchy' server â€" thus the name Apache.
-Apple- For the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computer if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 p.m. Apple's Macintosh is named after a popular variety of apple sold in the US. Apple also wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by the other computer companies at the time had names like IBM, NEC, DEC, ADPAC, Cincom, Dylakor, Input, Integral Systems, SAP, PSDI, Syncsort and Tesseract. The new company sought to reverse the entrenched view of computers in order to get people to use them at home. They looked for a name that was unlike the names of traditional computer companies, a name that also supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different. Note: Apple had to get approval from the Beatle's Apple Corps to use the name 'Apple' and paid a one-time royalty of $100,000 to McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., a maker of high-end audio equipment, to use the derivative name 'Macintosh', known now as just 'Mac'.
-AT&T- American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its name to AT&T in the 1990s.
-Bauknecht- Founded as an electro technical workshop in 1919 by Gottlob Bauknecht.
-BBC- Stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.
-BenQ- Bringing ENjoyment and Quality to life.
-Blaupunkt- Blaupunkt (Blue dot) was founded in 1923 under the name Ideal. Their core business was the manufacturing of headphones. If the headphones came through quality tests, the company would give the headphones a blue dot. The headphones quickly became known as the blue dots or blaue Punkte. The quality symbol would become a trademark, and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.
-BMW- Abbreviation of Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Factories).
-Borealis- The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis, is the celestial phenomenon that features bursts of light in colorful patterns dancing across the night skies of the north. Borealis, inspired from the shining brilliance of the Northern Lights, was formed in 1994 out of the merger between two northern oil companies, Norway's Statoil and Finland's Neste.
-BP- Formerly British Petroleum, now "BP" (The slogan "Beyond Petroleum" has incorrectly been taken to refer to the company's new name following its re-branding effort in 2000).
-BRAC- Abbreviation for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, world's largest NGO (non governmental organization). It works in development programs around the world.
-Bridgestone- Named after founder Shojiro Ishibashi. The surname Ishibashi (??) means "stone bridge", i.e. "bridge of stone".
-Bull- Compagnie des machines Bull was founded in Paristo exploit the patents for punched card machines taken out by a Norwegian engineer, Fredrik Rosing Bull.
-Cadillac- Cadillac was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe , sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan. Cadillac is a small town in the South of France.
-Canon- Originally (1933) Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory the new name (1935) derived from the name of the company's first camera, the Kwannon, in turn named after the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy.
-CGI- From the first letter of Information Management Consultant in french (Conseiller en Gestion et Informatique).
-Cisco- Short for San Francisco. It has also been suggested that it was "CIS-co" -- Computer Information Services was the department at StanfordUniversitythat the founders worked in.
-COBRA- Computadores Brasileiros, "Brazilian Computers", electronics and services company, was the first state-owned designer and producer of computers in the 1970s, later acquired by the Banco do Brazil.
-Coca-Cola- Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Cola creator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' for the name to look better.
-Colgate-Palmolive- Formed from a merger of soap manufacturers Colgate & Company and Palmolive-Peet. Peet was dropped in 1953. Colgate was named after WilliamColgate, an English immigrant, who set up a starch, soap and candle business in New York Cityin 1806. Palmolive was named for the two oils (Palm and Olive) used in its manufacture.
-Compaq- From "comp" for computer, and "pack" to denote a small integral object; or: Compatibility And Quality; or: from the company's first product, the very compact Compaq Portable.
-Comsat- An American digital telecommunications and satellite company, founded during the President Kennedy era to develop the technology. Contraction of Communications Satellites.
-Daewoo- The company founder Kim Woo Chong called it Daewoo which means "Great Universe" in Korean.
-Dell- Named after its founder, Michael Dell. The company changed its name from Dell Computer in 2003.
-DHL- The company was founded by Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom , and Robert Lynn , whose last initials form the company's moniker.
-eBay- Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. " EchoBay" didn't refer to the town in Nevada, the nature area close to Lake Mead, or any real place. "It just sounded cool," Omidyar reportedly said. When he tried to register EchoBay.com, though, he found that Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, had gotten it first. So, Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.
-Epson- Epson Seiko Corporation, the Japanese printer and peripheral manufacturer, was named from "Son of Electronic Printer".
-Fanta- was originally invented by Max Keith in Germanyin 1940 when World War II made it difficult to get the Coca-Cola syrup to Nazi Germany. Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam production. The name comes from the German word for imagination (Fantasie or Phantasie), because the inventors thought that imagination was needed to taste oranges from the strange mix.
-Fazer- Named after its founder, Karl Fazer.
-Fiat- Acronym of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Factory of Cars of Turin).
-Fuji- From the highest Japanese mountain Mount Fuji.
-Google- The name is an intentional misspelling of the word googol, reflecting the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.
-Haier- Chinese ? "sea" and ? (a transliteration character; also means "you" in Literary Chinese)
-HP- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
-Hitachi- Old place name, literally "sunrise"
-Honda- From the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda.
-Honeywell- From the name of Mark Honeywell founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co. It later merged with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company and was finally called Honeywell Inc. in 1963.
-Hotmail- Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" - the markup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. (If you click on Hotmail's 'mail' tab, you will still find "HoTMaiL" in the URL).
-HSBC- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
-Hyundai- Connotes the sense of "the present age" or "modernity" in Korean.
-IBM- Named by Tom Watson, an ex-employee of National Cash Register. To one-up them in all respects, he called his company International Business Machines.
-ICL- Abbreviation for International Computers Ltd, once the UK's largest computer company, but now a service arm of Fujitsu, of Japan.
-IKON- Copier company name derived from I Know One Name.
-Intel- Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore initially incorporated their company as N M Electronics. Someone suggested Moore Noyce Electronics but it sounded too close to "more noise" -- not a good choice for an electronics company! Later, Integrated Electronics was proposed but it had been taken by somebody else. Then, using initial syllables from INTegrated ELectronics, Noyce and Moore came up with Intel. To avoid potential conflicts with other companies of similar names, Intel purchased the name rights for $15,000 from a company called Intelco. (Source: Intel 15 Years Corporate Anniversary Brochure).
-Interland- A web hosting provider formally known as Micron Computer, Inc. which was named either after Internet Land or the combination of the largest acqusition it performed, Interliant with the word Land.
-Kawasaki- From the name of its founder, Shozo Kawasaki
-Kodak- Both the Kodak camera and the name were the invention of founder George Eastman . The letter "K" was a favorite with Eastman; he felt it a strong and incisive letter. He tried out various combinations of words starting and ending with "K". He saw three advantages in the name. It had the merits of a trademark word, would not be mis-pronounced and the name did not resemble anything in the art. There is a misconception that the name was chosen because of its similarity to the sound produced by the shutter of the camera.
-Konica- It was earlier known as Konishiroku Kogaku. Konishiroku in turn is the short for Konishiya Rokubeiten which was the first name of the company established by Rokusaburo Sugiura in the 1850s.
-Korg- Formed from the surnames of the founders, Tsutomu Katoh and Tadashi Osanai, combined with the letters "rg" from the word organ.
-LG- Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexicopublicists explained the name change to the public as an abbreviation to LÃnea Goldstar Spanish for Goldstar Line).
-L'Oréal- In 1907, Eugène Schueller, a young French chemist, developed an innovative hair-color formula. He called his improved hair dye Auréole.
-Lotus Software- Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
-Lucent Technologies- a spin-off from AT&T, it was named Lucent (meaning "luminous" or "glowing with light") because "light as a metaphor for visionary thinking reflected the company's operating and guiding business philosophy," according to the Landor Associates staff who chose the name. Source: Design Management Journal 8:1 (Winter 1997).
-Lycos- From Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders.
-Mazda Motor- From the company's first president, Jujiro Matsuda . In Japanese, no syllables are ever stressed and some inner syllables are virtually skipped. Thus, Matsuda is pronounced "Matsda". To make the name fly better outside of Japan, the spelling was changed to Mazda.
-McDonald's- From the name of the brothers Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald, who founded the first McDonald 's restaurant in 1940.
-Mercedes- This is the first name of the daughter of Emil Jellinek, who worked for the early Daimler company around 1900.
-MGM- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed by the merger of three picture houses Metro Picture Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Goldwyn Picture Corporation in turn was named after the last names of Samuel Goldfish and Edgar and Archibald Selwyn.
-Micron- Computer memory producer named after the microscopic parts of its products. The official name was Micron Computer, Inc. Since, the company has become Interland, a web hosting provider, after selling/spinning off its RAM division and closing down its computer division, licensing the name. The company is now headquartered in Atlanta.
-Microsoft- Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
-midPhase- The post-dotcom era gave using the .com in a companies official name untrendy. A new dotcom company may be named traditionally, in midPhase's case it was named midPhase Services, Inc., the midPhase stands for Middle Phase, or middle of the road.
-Mitsubishi- The name Mitsubishi (??) has two parts: mitsu means three and hishi (changing to bishi in the middle of the word) means water chestnut, and from here rhombus, which is reflected in the company's logo.
-Motorola- Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company (at the time, Galvin Manufacturing Company) started manufacturing radios for cars. Many audio equipment makers of the era used the " ola" ending for their products, most famously the "Victrola" phonograph made by the Victor Talking Machine Company. The name was meant to convey the idea of "sound" and "motion". The name became so recognized that the company later adopted it as the company name.
-Mozilla Foundation- From the name of the web-browser that preceded Netscape Navigator. When Marc Andreesen , founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace the Mosaic browser, it was internally named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla) by Jamie Zawinski.
-MRF- Madras Rubber Factory, founded by K M Mammen Mappillai in 1946. He started with a toy balloon-manufacturing unit at Tiruvottiyur, Chennai (then called Madras). In 1952, he began manufacturing tread-rubber, and in 1961, tyres.
-Nero- Nero Burning ROM named after Nero burning Rome.
-Netscape- Named by first marketing employee Greg Sands, in a panic when the University of Illinois threatened to sue the new company for its original name, Mosaic. Netscape then paid Landor $50,000 to design a logo.
-Nike- Named for the Greek goddess of victory.
-Nikon- The original name was Nippon Kogaku, meaning "Japanese Optical".
-Nissan- The company was earlier known by the name Nippon Sangyo which means "Japanese industry".
-Nokia- Started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia. The company later adopted the city's name.
-Nortel- The Nortel Networks name came from Nortel (Northern Telecom) and Bay Networks. The company was originally spun off from the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd in 1895 as Northern Electric and Manufacturing, and traded as Northern Electric from 1914 to 1976.
-Novartis- After the Latin _expression "novae artes" which means something like "new skills".
-Oracle- Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or some such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. The project eventually was terminated but they decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they changed the name of the company, Relational Technology Inc, to the name of the product.
-Pepsi- Pepsi derives its name from (treatment of) dyspepsia, an intestinal ailment.
-Philips- Royal Philips Electronics was founded in 1891, by brothers Gerard (the engineer) and Anton (the entrepreneur) Philips .
-Qantas- From its original name, Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services.
-Red Hat- Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. People would turn to him to solve their problems, and he was referred to as 'that guy in the red hat'. He lost the cap and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone.
-Reebok- Another spelling of rhebok (Pelea capreolus), an African antelope.
-SAAB- Founded in 1937 in Swedenas "Svenska Aeroplan aktiebolaget" (Swedish Aeroplane Company) abbreviated SAAB.
-Samsonite- Samsonite was launched as a brand in 1941, receiving its name from the Biblical character Samson, renowned for his strength.
-Samsung- Meaning three stars in Korean.
-Sanyo- The Japanese translation is disputed, although the Chinese name is "??" (literally, "Three Oceans").
-SAP- "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formerly "System Analyse and Programmentwicklung" (German for "System analysis and program development"), formed by 4 ex- IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
-SEGA- "Service Games of Japan" (SeGa) Founded by Marty Bromley (an American) to import pinball games to Japanfor use on American military bases.
-Sharp- Japanese consumer electronics company named from its first product, an ever-sharp pencil.
-Shell- Royal Dutch Shell was established in 1907, when the Royal Netherlands Petrol Society Plc. and the Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd. merged. The Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd. had been established at the end of the 19th century, by commercial firm Samuel & Co (founded in 1830). Samuel & Co were already successfully importing Japanese shells when they set up an oil company, so the oil company was named after the shells Samuel & Co were importing.
-Siemens- founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske: the company was originally called Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske.
-Sprint- From its parent company, Southern Pacific Railroad INTernal Communications. Back in the day, pipelines and railroad tracks were the cheapest place to lay communications lines, as the right-of-way was already leased or owned.
-Sun Microsystems- Its founders designed their first workstation in their dorm at Stanford University, and chose the name Stanford University Network for their product, hoping to sell it to the college. They didn't.
-Suzuki- From the name of its founder, Michio Suzuki.
-Tesco- Founder Jack Cohen, who from 1919 sold groceries in the markets of the London East End, acquired a large shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and made new labels by using the first three letters of the supplier's name and the first two letters of his surname forming the word "TESCO".
-Toshiba- Was founded by the merger of consumer goods company Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and electrical firm Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).
-Toyota- From the founder's name Sakichi Toyoda. Initially called Toyeda, it was changed after a contest for a better-sounding name. The new name was written in katakana with eight strokes, a number that is considered lucky in Japan.
-Unisys- Made-up name for the company that resulted from the combination of two old mainframe computer companies, Burroughs and Sperry [Sperry Univac/Sperry Rand]. It "united" two incompatible ranges. Unisys was briefly the world's second-largest computer company, after IBM.
-Verizon- A portmanteau of veritas (Latin for truth) and horizon.
-Vodafone- Is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in the United Kingdom. Its name is made up of VOice, DAta, TeleFONE. Vodafone made the UK's first mobile call at a few minutes past midnight on the 1 January 1985.
-Volvo- From the Latin word "volvo", which means "I roll". It was originally a name for a ball bearing being developed by SKF.
-Xerox- The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
-Yahoo!- A "backronym" for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang selected the name because they jokingly considered themselves yahoos.
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-Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
-A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
-A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that..
-A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.(My geuss is the frequancy)
-A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
-During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (That explains some randoms)
-Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
-Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
-The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before that book was published.
-The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.(Curious how one found out this information)
-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.(Classic fact)
-The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
-The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
-The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
-The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
-Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
-By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.(Ponders when this fact could possibly be of any use...you never know i geuss)
-Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
-An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
-The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
-Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.(I recall seeing 'Batman' taking a right once..)
-Hewlett Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
-Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
-Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
-If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
-In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
-Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.(Ponders how such things come to pass)
-Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
-The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
-The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.(..Who are these people getting animals and insects (who knows what else) drunk..)
-The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six drivers licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
-People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the same symbol.
-Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro.
-Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 "puppy" teeth, then 42 adult teeth.
-A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
-The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
-Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
-There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia.
-Twenty years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
-A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
-Author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide recently, wanted to be cremated and his ashes to be shot out of a cannon on his ranch.
-Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
-There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelery for a loved one.(Now that is impressive)
-The RIAA sued an 83 year old woman for downloading music illegally, even though a copy of her death certificate was sent to the RIAA a week before it filed the suit.
-Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.(Not surprised)
-A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.(No clue on SAT scores or how they work, someone should make one test universal)
-Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers. The Ku Klux Klan is also involved in the adopt-a-road program in the state of Arkansas.(How.. Why.. WFT..)
-Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".
-McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).
-The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
-Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government.(The police don't even carry guns here..(N.Z))
-All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
-A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.(Who gives these people power, someone has to..)
-Only 6% of the autographs in circulation from members of the Beatles are estimated to be real.(If you own such a signature.. what are the odds)
-The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.(This takes the cake, i now will collect a list of 'wasted' manpower/funds/time, just to see how many ..'trillians??'.. are wasted each annually)
-John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.(Who doesn't/wouldn't(privately naturally))
-41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.(Explains the higher ratio of asian style fastfood establishments)
-A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.(Harsh)
-So many Americans decided not to get a flu shot in winter 2004/2005 that there is now a surplus of flu immunizations; if more people don't get flu shots soon, there will be thousands of doses that will go to waste.
-G-rated family films earn far more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
-Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.(Hehe)
-More people (300million) study English in China than speak it in the United States of America.
-More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
-For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
-There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
-1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
-A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
-The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon..
-The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve.
-In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.(Something i didn't know)
-Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.
-Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.
-The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.(Now that is funny)
-Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.
-90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
-There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.
-A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day.(Sleep Well)
-John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president...
-Only 939 of the 1,400,000 high school seniors who took the SAT in 2004 got a perfect score of 1600. Two of them are twin brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith from Long Island, NY.
-In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.
-A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.(Imagine looking after that bunch)
-Even today, 85% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
-Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".
-Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.(Naturally)
-The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.(The point..??..)
-55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.
-All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) "rotten imperialist reactionary culture".(Good1)
-La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
-George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
-Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
-If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
-Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
-The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.
-CBS's fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast.
-Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.
-In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
-A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
-Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.
-Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States alone. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez(Major Spill).
-An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.
-In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
-Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.(Scetchy geusstimation if you ask me)
-At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.
-A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.(Blimey..)
-The New York City subway system, in an effort to raise revenue, is/was considering selling sponsorships of individual stations to corporations. Riders could soon be getting off at Nike Grand Central Station or Sony Times Square.
-The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.
-Gerald Ford once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan magazine.
-Gillette spent $1,000,000 to place razor samples in the welcome bags handed out at the Democratic National Convention, only to have them confiscated as they were considered a threat. This caused huge delays at all security checkpoints.
-Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.
-Jim Carrey voted in 2004 at the Beverly Hills City Hall. He had an assistant wait in line for him, however.
-As part of a charity event, 500 cats were spayed and neutered in the cafeteria of an elementary school. School was cancelled for days and $10,000 was spent on cleaning and sterilizing the room.(I bet they felt clever)
-The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
-Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.(Smells about right)
-The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.(Wonders if it's run by teens like most everywhere else)
-A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000.(Now that is interesting...)
-There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.(I want a Puma(Black Panther), only if i had the land)
-The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.(Crocodiles are another, fish eggs also popular)
-The number of US college students studying Latin is three times the number studying Arabic.
-In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.(Life evolves, why some think we(Humans)do not is beyond me)
-If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.(Vibrations..)
-Some dogs can predict when a someone is about to have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the individual from injury. (They're not trained to do this, they are believed to smell certain 'oders' before an attack arises)
-32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. (Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel..)
-The remains of 125 people will be launched into space where they will orbit the Earth for centuries.
-The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide.
-So far, Congress has authorized $152,600,000,000 for the Iraq war. This is enough to build over 17,500 elementary schools.(Or feed/cure alot of people)
-The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
-20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.(Tell me it isn't so..)
-The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market.
-On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night.
-When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
-There is a new television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite.(Sigh)
-The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.(Location-Location-Location)
-French author Michel Thaler published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.
-The spring thaw finally allows cemeteries in Alaska to start digging graves for those who died during the winter.
-Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen turned 18 in mid-2004, they will took official control of a company worth more than the gross national product of Mongolia. (Their earnings in 2003 topped $1 billion)
-New York City drinking water might not be kosher; it contains harmless micro-organisms that are technically shellfish.
-David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.
-A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
-In 1997, a woman in Bradenton, Florida lost her cat. In 2004, she got a call from the local animal shelter. The cat turned up wandering the streets in San Francisco, California. The cat's identity was proven with a microchip that had been implanted prior to 1997.(Impressive Journey)
-Almost 20% of the billions of dollars American taxpayers are spending to rebuild Iraq are lost to theft, kickbacks and corruption.
-The treasury department has more than twenty people assigned to catching people who violate the trade and tourism embargo with Cuba. In contrast, it has only four employees assigned to track the assets of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
-There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
-An estimated 800,000 senior citizens voluntarily give up their driving privileges each year. The average age at which they surrender the wheel is 85.
-More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean war.
-3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
-82% of Americans made a purchase at Wal-Mart in 2002.
-71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.(Hehe)
-The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
-Trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.(What's next)
-Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.
-One out of five people in the world live on less than $1 per day.
-The Swedish pop group ABBA recently turned down an offer of $2 billion to reunite.
-35 Billion(give or take a couple) e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
-The richest self-made American under 40 is Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computers. He is/was worth $18 billion.
-Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy.
-Airport security agents at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts caught a passenger trying to sneak a severed seal head onto a plane inside a cooler. The man said he was a biology professor and had found the dead animal on the beach.(Weird)
-Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia.
-A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
-The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
-Last December, the House of Representatives earmarked $50,000,000 to create an indoor rain forest in Iowa.
-Amusement park attendance goes up after a fatal accident. It seems many people want to ride upon the same ride that killed someone.
-For every tonne of fish that is caught in all the oceans on our planet, there are three tons of garbage dumped into the oceans.
-People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT.(Who does this research..)
-More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last, an increase that may be a result of the abuse of substances purchased with benefit checks that come at the beginning of each month.
-A Massachusetts surgeon left a patient with an open incision for 35 minutes while he went to deposit a check.
-In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.
-There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
-The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.
-The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
-In an effort to encourage the use of nuclear energy, the United States lent highly enriched uranium to countries all over the world between 1950 and 1988. Enough weapons-grade material to make 1,000 nuclear bombs has still not been returned by such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Israel and South Africa.
-Homing pigeons use roads where possible to help find their way home. In fact, some pigeons followed roads so closely that they actually flew around traffic circles before choosing the exit that led them home.
-Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
-A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
-Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
-We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday.
-Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
-In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.(Amusing)
-An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.
-During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.
-Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
-The Mars Rover "Spirit" is powered by six small motors the size of "C" batteries. It has a top speed of 0.1 mph.
-The entire town of Capena, Italy (including children as young as 2 years old) lights up cigarettes each year in honor of St. Anthony's Day. This tradition is centuries old.(Proving true stupidity knows not of time)
-Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.(Should have seen that coming)
-As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, but a death every 13 seconds.
-There is a Starbucks in Myungdong, South Korea that is five stories tall.
-Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
-There has been no mail delivery in Canada on Saturday for the last thirty five years.
-The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly.
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
-The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
-There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.
-The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
-Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-The Bible has been translated into Klingon.(.. im speechless)
-Toto (the dog)was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
-Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
-To help reduce budget deficits, several states have begun reducing the amount of food served to prison inmates. In Texas, the number of daily calories served to prisoners was cut by 300, saving the state $6,000,000 per year.
-The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
-Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.(They like vibrations..??)
-The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator."
-The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
-The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
-65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
-It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
-The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.(Hehe)
-The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
-A snail can also sleep for three years.
-There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
-In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
-Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.
-1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
-A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
-Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
-A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
-Snails can have about 25,000 teeth.
-A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.(Impressive considering it has no brain)
-A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.
-A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
-According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.(Say no more, i am convinced)
-Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.
-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
-The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
-Cats can hear ultrasound.
-The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
-Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.
-If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".(My g/f points out, you would need to get to 1 billion before reaching a 'b' ..)
-Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
-A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
-There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
-Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
-40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
-Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
-Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
-Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3
-Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
-Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
-An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
-In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
-February 1865 was the only month in recorded history that didn't have a full moon.
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.(Umm..)
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.(.........)
-When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
-The youngest pope was 11 years old.
-Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
-Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
-Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
-They have square watermelons in Japan.(they stack better..)
-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
-The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.
-The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.(You are more likely to dream if you eat something directly before sleeping)
-Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
-The State of Florida is bigger than England.
-Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
-Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
-In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
-About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
-In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
-Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
-Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue..
-It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
-There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
-Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
-The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
-Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
-A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
-A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
-There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
-Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
-Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
-In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
-Every time you take a sip of water, you're drinking hydrogen atoms made during the creation of our universe over 12 billion years ago.
-To be, or not to be, that is the question, why is another perspective.
-Everyone has a photographic memory. Not everyone has film.(So true)
-Expect nothing, you will not be dissapointed.
-The greeks invented philosophy over 3000 years ago, philosophy is basically thinking.. about thinking, which is kind of weird when you think about it.. Heh
-Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. (Minna Antrim)
-Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it. (Lao Tsu)
-The only perfect science is hind-sight.
-If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an anthitetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation." (Max DePree)
-If parents would only realize how they bore their children. (G.B. Shaw)
-All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. (Woody Allen)
-The SAME WAVE keeps coming in and COLLAPSING like a rayon MUU-MUU ...(Anon)
-concerning quotation marks] even if we *__did* quote anybody in this business, it probably would be gibberish. (Thom McLeod)
-Envy, n.: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage, instead of having to try and acquire one.
-Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. (Alexander Pope (on runtime bounds checking? heh))
-The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal. (Blair)
-To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the competent.
-The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.
-We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
-With a rubber duck, one's never alone. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
-"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!" ... "Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" (Doonesbury)
-The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me. (Nicol Williamson)
-Microsoft is like a mountain with their installed base. Like it or not, no matter how loud the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it. (Jeff Merkey on linux-advoca^Wkernel)
-Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives. :-)
-The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End.
-mophobia, n.: Fear of being verbally abused by a Mississippian.
-Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
-101-ism: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
-Random- At that point it will compile, but segfault, as it should..
-And here I wait so patiently; Waiting to find out what price; You have to pay to get out of; Going thru all of these things twice..
-Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. (Oscar Wilde)
-Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull inbetween. (Alfred E. Neuman)
-Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations.
-Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs.
-Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats.
-Chinese saying: "He who speak with forked tongue, not need chopsticks."
-There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. (Not to sure about that one..)
-Responsibility: Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they're smart, that is.
-There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
-Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.
-Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed.
-Understatement of the Century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" (Linus Torvalds, August 1991)
-"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."
-"Rome wasn't burned in a day."
-If you notice that a person is deceiving you, they must not be deceiving you very well.
-Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them.
-If i sound like Yoda, or come across sounding smart, you are only admitting to yourself you are stupid.
-There was a mad scientist (a mad... social... scientist) who kidnapped three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no can opener. A month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer's cell and found it long empty. The engineer had constructed a can opener from pocket trash, used aluminum shavings and dried sugar to make an explosive, and escaped. The physicist had worked out the angle necessary to knock the lids off the tin cans by throwing them against the wall. She was developing a good pitching arm and a new quantum theory. The mathematician had stacked the unopened cans into a surprising solution to the kissing problem; his dessicated corpse was propped calmly against a wall, and this was inscribed on the floor. :Theorem: If I can't open these cans, I'll die. :Proof: assume the opposite...
-Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
-Expense Accounts, n.: Corporate food stamps.
-Any activity that can't be done while smoking should be avoided. (Heh)
-This is a one line proof... if we start sufficiently far to the left.
-You may take my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. (Shakespeare)
-In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations.. it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
-Ignore previous fortune.
-History is on our side (as long as we can control the historians).
-The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
-Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.
-Its the InterNIC's fault..
-Your lucky number has been disconnected.
-A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased.
-Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. (Allen Kay)
-A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Mark Twain)
-Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
-No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it.
-If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager ~_~
-There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of overcrowding induces violence. Ref: History.
-I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance...
-Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
-Whenever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure that they're not using it.
-Self Test for Paranoia: You know you have it when you can't think of anything that's your own fault.
-It's amazing how much better you feel once you've given up hope.
-Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.
-Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
-Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be misinterpreted by somebody.
-Boy, am I glad it's only 1971. Anonymous (2001)
-It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." (Abraham Lincoln)
-You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN.
-God is real, unless declared integer.. Heh
-Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
-Eloquence is logic on fire.
-If an S and an I and an O and a U With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do But to go commit siouxeyesighed.
-Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
-Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots.
-If you're constantly being mistreated, you're cooperating with the treatment.
-There are two concepts of intelligence? 1: Fluid Intelligence includes such abilities as problem-solving, memory, learning, and pattern recognition. 2: Crystallized Intelligence is more static, consisting primarily of acquired knowledge.
-"Your mind is like a room. You have to put stuff in it, or else it will stay empty."- Silentstalker
-There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.
-Alfred Binet invented the intelligence quotient or IQ test to determine which children would not benefit from more schooling.
-Sarcasm is the refuge of a shallow mind.
-Scientific research has been found to be a leading cause of cancer in rats..
-Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
-Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
-What is the hottest place on Earth? El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
-A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
-A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
-Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
-Hitler was regularly given injections of amphetamine by his doctor.
-The oil from hemp seeds has the highest percentage of essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats.
-In 2002, the following amount of electricity, in gigawatt-hours, was generated from the following sources of fuel: * Coal: 1,925,792 GWh * Nuclear: 779,461 GWh * Gas: 695,226 GWh * Hydro: 255,077 GWh * Fuel oil: 91,629 GWh * Biomass: 71,534 GWh * Other (geothermal, non-wood waste, wind and solar): 22,737 GWh..
-The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
-The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.
-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
-Hitler had Parkinson's disease and had a significant tremor in his left hand which was censored in the German media. He also had syphillis which causes insane rage in it's advanced stages.
-By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks. The same applies to some plants..
-The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
-Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers
-If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-45.2% of people pee in the shower.
-No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less. Edgar Watson Howe
-Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.
-Of 200 Anglican priests polled only 68 could name all Ten Commandments. Half, however, said they believed in space aliens.
-What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now. The Buddha
-The tallest tree on the planet, a giant redwood that soars 370 feet into the California sky, is still growing..
-Bill McCoy was a bootlegger well known for selling quality imported goods. Hence the phrase "Is that the real McCoy."
-They take their milkshakes pretty seriously in Detroit. When Alfred Pointer and his wife complained about a watery milkshake they received from the drive through of a McDonald's restaurant, the attendant suggested Mr. Pointer come inside for a refund. There he was allegedly beaten by three employees. The couple has filed a $100 million lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. and the owners of the franchise. [If they get that upset over milkshakes in Detroit, I wonder what they would have done to him if he had said Chefs suck?
-Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
-Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
-Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
-Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
-Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.
-Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
-Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.
-Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
-About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body.
-53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
-More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
-Breathing through your mouth while chopping onions will help reduce the tears ;)
-The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
-Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!
-In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
-Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
-A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.
-The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.
-Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
-28.1% of people pee in the pool !
-The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
-Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine.
-Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
-What country will you find the most Universities? India.
-Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.
-People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-It is illegal for tourists to enter Mexico with more than 2 CD's!
-Originally Luke Skywalker was named Luke Starkiller.
-'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.. Can't say I knew that 1..Heh
-Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.
-A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
-An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
-About 25% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
-Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
-In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'..
-Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.
-Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
-Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
-'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth!
-Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
-A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
-Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
-Linen is actually stronger when wet.
-If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
-The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
-Goats do not have upper front teeth.
-A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
-Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
-Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. - an0nymous.user
-I want a man who will love me for my mind and not my body,but will play with my body and not my mind - Ha zel
-Our eyes never grow, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
-A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
-The most common blood type in the world is type O.
-The rarest blood type in the world is type A-H, less than 12 people have it.
-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
-You consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp.
-It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery provides you with.
-Many people think eating fish makes you more intelligent.(sorry - it doesn't)
-Some lions mate 50 times a day.
-No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver.
-The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
-Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
-Red does not make bulls angry, bulls are colour blind.
-The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
-Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
-In the Scottish language Gaidhlig (Gaelic), there is no word for 'yes' or 'no'.
-The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants.
-The word 'rhythm' has no vowels.
-It is commonly believed that acne is caused or made worse by poor diet or poor hygiene.
-Number of lottery combinations (6 numbers from 49): 13,983,816 The first million decimal places of pi!
-"Almost" is the longest word with all the letters in alphabetical order.
-Satan is an anagram of Santa.
-All polar bears are left-handed.
-Dreamt is the only word ending in "mt."
-Crocodiles have 2 penises...
-A pig's orgasm can last 30 minutes..
-The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
-Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
-111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321.
-The number 9,876,543,210 has 72 factors.
-An ant can lift 50 times its own weight & can pull 30 times its own weight.
-Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to size)
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
-The human brain is about 85% water.
-Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
-Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
-Smokers need twice as much vitamin C (80mg) as non-smokers (40mg) daily.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-You blink about 25,000 times a day.
-Blonds have more hair than dark haired people do.
-The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
-When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
-The average human eats 8 spiders in his/ her lifetime at night.
-Flies are deaf.
-Slugs have 4 noses.
-Starfish have no brains.
-Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
-Pencils contain graphite or carbon, NOT lead.
-If you had a lead pencil you would have great difficulty writing with it.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
-Bananas don’t grow on trees.
-There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-The 'you are here arrow' on a map is called the IDEO locater.
-A person who practises karate is called a karateka.
-A person who practices judo is called a judoka.
-Dolphins and humans are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.
-Giraffes & rats can go without water longer than a camel can.
- ..-40 degrees Celsius equals -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
-The gas methane can be found from Uranus.
-From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
-The earth rotates east on its axis.
-Saturn is the only planet that could float on water.
-The 21st century started in 2001, not 2000.
-On AOL, women outnumber men.
-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
-The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky.
-There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
-A dentist invented the electric chair.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-A watched clock never boils..
-In the constellation of Pisces, 100 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are smashing together in a dramatic demonstration of our far future: when the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy.
-Lightening is 3 times hotter than the surface of the sun. The surface temperature of our sun is around 10,000 degrees Farenheit, while lightening is 30,000 degrees.
-A light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year..about 9.46 million million kilometers.
-For North America the Earth is actually closer to the Sun in the Winter.
-Stars twinkle because the light we see coming from the stars travels through the atmosphere around the earth and there is turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
-If you were to drive a car at 100 kilometers an hour, 24 hours a day then you could reach the sun in about 3 years.
-If we could travel in a space ship at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per hour, it would take over 88,000 years to reach the nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri.
-Our sun is moving at 12 miles-per-second towards the constellation Hercules.
-If the sun were the size of the dot over a letter "i", the nearest star would be a dot 10 miles away.
-Every square yard of the sun's surface sends out energy equal to the power of 700 automobiles. About one two-billionth of this energy actually reaches us.
-A pulsar is a neutron star that emits pulsed radio signals. The first pulsar was discovered in 1967.
-A protostar is a portion of a nebula that is about to form into a new star.
-A faculae is an area on the surface of a star that appears brighter by comparison to surrounding regions.
-Some stars are 600,000 times as bright as our own sun.
-Of the 92 "natural" elements on Earth, 2/3 have been found in the sun. The rest are probably present as well.
-The evening star is actually a planet, usually Mercury or Venus, when seen in the western sky just after sunset.
-Mercury is more dense than any object in the solar system, save Earth.
-Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, with temperatures reaching 860 degrees Fahrenheit! It is so hot, that it can melt lead!
-Venus has an extensive atmosphere with the high albedo of 76%, which completely covers and hides the surface.
-The canals of Mars, now known to be an optical illusion, were once touted as evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
-The Martian "day" is only slightly longer than a day on Earth. On Mars, a day is 24 hours, 37 minutes, 23 seconds long whereas on Earth, a day is 23 hours 56 minutes, 04 seconds long.
-Uranus is unique among the planets in that its equitorial plane is almost perpendicular to the orbital plane.
-Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
-I'll sleep when I'm dead - Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
-There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
-When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
-While we are postponing, life speeds by - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
-First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
-Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die - Mel Brooks
-Wit is educated insolence - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
-The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is actually redshifted towards us. That means that the Milky Way and Andromeda are rushing towards each other.
-Quasars are the most distant objects in the known universe.
-If you could fly across our Galaxy from one side to the other at light speed, it would take 100,000 years to make the trip.
-The largest galaxy discovered yet is over 137 Million light years across.
-The formula for determining magnification is M= FT / FE where M = Magnification, FT - Focal Length of telescope, and FE = Focal Length of eyepiece. Be sure to convert all numbers to similar convention; metric or otherwise.
-The first telescope was put to practical use in 1609 by Galileo. It was a simple refractor.
-Death is more universal the life, everyone dies, not everyone lives.
-Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
-War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased god to afflict men.
-It is well war is terrible, or we should get to fond of it.
-Was is a series of disasters which results in a winner.
-It is not that i am afraid to die, i just don't want to be there when it happens.
-Once the game is over, the king and pawn go back in the same box.
-The 200-inch mirror for the telescope on Palomar Mountain weights over 14 tons and is 27-inches thick. The telescope gathers 640,000 times as much light as the human eye.
-Astronomy is considered a "passive" science compared to most others because knowledge is based mostly upon observation rather than experimentation.
-Absolute Magnitude is the magnitude that any star would have if it were placed exactly 10 parsecs from the observer.
-Light from the Sun takes eight minutes to reach Earth. The light we see today from the next nearest star was emitted about four years ago. -Light from the nearest galaxy like our own, Andromeda, takes over 2 million years to reach us.
-By studying the properties of galaxies at different epochs, we can map the evolution of the universe.
-Almost any valid C program is also a valid C++ program and, in fact, the addition of about 12 keywords is the only reason that some C programs will not compile and execute as a C++ program.
-Intel temporarily cut its chip set production to focus on mobile products such as Centrino.
-Avoid touching the card-edge-connectors on Ram modules or expansion boards and the top of your cpu before you install the heat sink.
-Biometric fingerprint readers make it easier to log into your pc.
-A survey showed half of all US firms dealt with computer porn last year, and offenders were fired in 44% of the cases.
-Paper was made in the second century BC in China. The process was a closely guarded secret until the 7th century where it spread to Japan, and later to Arabia. It reached Europe when the Arabs invaded Spain in 711.
-Simple dobsonian telescopes are cheap, practical telescopes for beginner and intermediate observers. -Many seasoned observers also use large dobsonians.
-One parsec is equal to 19.2 million million miles.
-Plasma is an ionized gas.
-Astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs make actual and important contributions to the science.
-In general the left and right hemispheres of your brain process information in different ways. We tend to process information using our dominant side. However, the learning process is enhanced when all of our senses are used. This includes using your less dominate hemisphere.
-If you are left-brained, you would enjoy making a master schedule and doing daily planning. You complete tasks in order and take pleasure in checking them off when they are accomplished. Likewise, learning things in sequence is relatively easy for you ie spelling.
-If you are right-brained,you may flit from one task to another. You will get just as much done if not more but perhaps without having addressed priorities. An assignment may be late or incomplete, not because you weren't working, but because you were working on something else.
-The left brain has no trouble processing symbols. Many academic pursuits deal with symbols such as letters, words, and mathematical notations. The left-brained person tends to be comfortable with linguistic and mathematical endeavors.
-The right brain, on the other hand, wants things to be concrete. The right-brained person wants to see, feel, or touch the real object. -Right-brained people may have had trouble learning to read using phonics. They prefer to see words in context and to see how the formula works.
-The first family of viruses for windows Vista were unleashed after it was in beta for only a week, subsequently microsoft will cut the potential target, the Monad scripting shell, from Vista's first general release.
-Mirrors, your body and chicken wire in the walls can block wifi radio signals.
-A study has shown most blog visitors are young wealthy people.
-Microsofts proposed new RFID postal system will allow both the sender an receiver to track the exact location of the package.
-Left-brained people have little trouble expressing themselves in words. Right-brained people may know what they mean but often have trouble finding the right words.
-The pencil was invented independently around 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Contre of France and Joseph Hardtmuth of Austria.
-Radio waves travel at the speed of light (approx.186,000mps). The frequency of a wave is measured in hertz, the terms for thousands and millions of cycles per seconds are 'kilohertz' and 'megahertz'.
-Radio waves consist of two components, a varying magnetic field and a varying electric field, which lie @ right angles to each other, the fields need no supporting medium, such as air, and can be transmitted through space.
-Vaccine, from the latin 'vacca', which means cow.
-The oldest known watch was made in 1504 by Peter Henlein of Nuremburg, Germany, and is now in the Imperial Hall, Philadelphia.
-Random facts are well known for stimulating your brain. They help keep your brain younger, sharper, and generally more pleasant to be around.
-The average person spends 1 - 2 months during a lifetime looking aimlessly into the fridge for something to eat.
-If a man watches a woman undress in front of a window, he can be arrested as a peeping tom, if a woman watches a man undress in front of a window, she can have him arrested for indecent exposure.
-In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
-Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
-The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
-You are a cosmic thought manifested into form to play the game of life..
-No president of the United States was an only child.
-An axiom is a statement universally accepted as true, like an established principal or law of science.
-A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
-Experience: A name we give to our mistakes.
-Happiness can't buy money.
-You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
-Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
-The only difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is your point of view.
-Inflation is a result of legalized counterfeiting.
-The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
-It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one...
-Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
-Money can't buy happiness, but allows a choice of misery.
-The chances of your dying on the trip to buy your Lotto ticket is greater than your chance of winning..
-If you sit around anywhere long enough, you'll die.
-Experience teaches you to recognize a mistake when you've made it again.
-Bride in the old english means 'cook', a groom on the other hand means 'Child', make of that what you will..
-"Maturity is knowing when and where to be immature."
-"People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them."
-"God loves stupid people, that's why he made so many."
-"The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it's open."
-"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page."
-"Achievement is a balance between desire to win and fear of failure."
-"It's so easy to let the fear of failure to get the upper hand and to shrink into passivity and negative thinking."
-"If you can't imagine it, you can't do it."
-"People may not remember what you said or what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel!"
-"The Sanskrit word 'Namaste' means 'I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honor the place in you of love, of truth, of peace, and of light, and when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. <<>>"
-"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-"To live a creative life, we must face our fear of being wrong."
-"Aim for success, not perfection. It is by being wrong often that we learn new things and move forward with our lives."
-"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
-"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
-"Man cannot discover new lands without losing sight of the shore."
-"One ounce of action is worth more than a ton of theory."
-"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do"
-"Tell me and I may forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand."
-"The Dictionary is the only place where success comes before work."
-"Age is relative - when you're over the hill, you pick up speed."
-"Tell the truth, there's less to remember."
-"An error only becomes a mistake, when you choose to ignore it."
-"There are two ways to be rich - make more or desire less."
-"Every day is a great a day, just some are greater than others."
-"Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't, you are right !"
-"The man who smiles when everything goes wrong, has just thought of someone to blame it on"
-"Never put off until tomorrow, that which can be completely avoided."
-"There can be no rainbow without rain."
-"You're not a failure because you didn't make it, you're a success because you tried."
-"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday, and all is well."
-"If life gives you lemons, then make lemonade."
-"If ignorance is bliss, then why aren't more people happy?"
-"Your mind is like a parachute - It works best when open."
-"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've already got."
-"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-"Ability is what you're capable of doing, motivation determines what you do, attitude determines how well you do it."
-"Leadership is doing what is right when no-one is watching."
-"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
-"The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot."
-"He who asks questions is a fool for a minute, he who doesn't is a fool for life."
-"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."
-"The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one."
-"No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less Edgar Watson Howe"
-"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power, and magic"
-"Even if you are on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there."
-"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"
-"Heaven isn't a place, it's a feeling"
-"Our enemies are sacred because they make us strong"
-"What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now"
-"If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail"
-"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered"
-"You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair"
-"When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first."
-"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important"
-"To a shaman imagination is a vehicle that sends thoughts and feelings to make real changes in the physical world"
-"When we judge something we only prove that we have an incomplete view of it"
-"You are not your thoughts!"
-"Reality is where your consciousness is located"
-"The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth"
-"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
-"Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes"
-"Government is like gravity, it doesn't matter whether you believe in it or not, accept it"
-"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect"
-"Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed"
-"Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill"
-"Some things have to be believed to be seen"
-"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital"
-"A word to the wise is... unnecessary"
-"Dreams are pictures of feelings."
-"Fortune knocks but once, misfortune has much more patience"
-"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice."
<<< "I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with" >>> Plato...427-347 bc
-"The faults of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive"
-"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself."
-"Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?"
-"God does not play dice with the universe."
-"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-"Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary."
-"I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research."
-"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."
-"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
-"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
-"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. "
-"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
-"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science"
-"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Never the less, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact perdiction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
-"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
-"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside"
-"I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
-"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
-"Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality".
-"I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
-"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
-"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."
-"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
-"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber."
-"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
-"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
-"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
-"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
-"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
-"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." or sometimes quoted as "God does not play dice with the universe."
-"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
-"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
-"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
-"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
-"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
-"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
-"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
-"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
-"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
-"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
-"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
-"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy."
-"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
-"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
-"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people ."
-"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others ."
-"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while ."
-"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within ."
-"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
-"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism"
-"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
-"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
-"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
-"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
-"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
---When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!---
-"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
-"Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding. "
-"The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us."
-"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
-"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty ."
-"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge ."
-"The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?"
-"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." (So True)
-"One should guard against inculcating a young man {or woman} with the idea that success is the aim of life, for a successful man normally receives from his peers an incomparibly greater portion than than the services he has been able to render them deserve. The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. The most important motive for study at school, at the university, and in life is the pleasure of working and thereby obtaining results which will serve the community. The most important task for our educators is to awaken and encourage these psychological forces in a young man {or woman}. Such a basis alone can lead to the joy of possessing one of the most precious assets in the world - knowledge or artistic skill."
-"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
-"Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels."
-"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world."
-"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. "
-"The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."
-"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." (1929)
-"Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become in jurious for the individual and for the community. "
-Experience is a tough teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
-War isn't about who is right, it is about who is left.
-A man who wont die for something is not fit to live.
-You might as well fall flat on your face, as lean over too far backwards.
-In war there is no substitute for victory.
-Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
-A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic..
-The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
-Death is a very dull, drairy affair, my advice is to have nothing what-so-ever to do with it.
-The object is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.. G.C.Patton
-Every war we find a new way to kill.
-I don't believe in a fate that falls on men, however i believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-Much good work is lost for lack of a little more.
-Man must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
-War is a game played with a smile, if you cant smile, grin, if you cant grin, stay out of the way till you can.
-Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
-Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
-Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
-Don't be so humble - you are not that great - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
-This book fills a much-needed gap - Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
-The full use of your powers along lines of excellence - definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
-I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart - e e cummings (1894-1962)
-Give me a museum and I'll fill it - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
-In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
-I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
-Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
-In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
-Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
-Do or do not, there is no 'try' - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
-The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed - George Burns (1896-1996)
-I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
-The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense - Edsgar Dijkstra
-A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
-Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
-The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
-If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
-Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
-The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
-Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego' - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
-Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
-I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song.
-Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
-Talent does what it can; genius does what it must - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
-The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed' - Unknown
-Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship - Sharon Stone
-If you are going through hell, keep going - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
-He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how' - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
-I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
-Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh - Voltaire (1694-1778)
-He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
-I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
-I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
-When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
-How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
-I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
-Maybe this world is another planet's Hell - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
-Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
-Black holes are where God divided by zero - Steven Wright
-It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966)
-The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true - James Branch Cabell
-All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
-You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
-I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth - Umberto Eco
-People that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
-The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working - Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
-There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life - Frank Zappa
-Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint Exupery
-It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts - G. B. Burgin
-Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action - Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
-To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ) - Jimi Hendrix
-It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough - Mario Andretti.
-I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925
-My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
-It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
-In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience - W.B. Prescott
-It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
-A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
-From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
-In the end, everything is a gag - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
-I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known - Walt Disney (1901-1966)
-If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
-An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
-Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug - Jon Lithgow
-Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories - John Wilmot
-There's nothing that keeps its youth,So far as I know, but a tree and truth - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
-It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
-Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
-A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward - Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
-By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates
-The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance - Socrates
-I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either - Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)
-Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
-Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
-The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
-A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
-An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
-Strychnine was in Hitler's anti-gas pills which he took daily. It was suspected his doctor was trying to assassinate him slowly..
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-Random facts have always made for good conversation starters. Have an ample supply of random facts to grease your social interactions. Careful, however, not to be overdo it, as Confucious says, "Man who tell too many light bulb jokes soon burn out."
-In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."
-Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
-The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
-A battalion is about 5,000 men.
-China has more English speakers than the United States.
-A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
-Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
-The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
-The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
-The US Navy submarine have been using active sonar technology, a deafening burst of noise that is dangerous even 300 miles from it's source. Some mid-frequency sonar systems can put out over 235 decibels, about as loud as a rocket launch.Animals for hundreds of miles literally jump out of the water to try to avoid the sound. The effects vary, causing internal bleeding and bursting organs including lungs and eardrums. Next time you see news about beached dolphins, now you know why.
-Cat's urine glows under a black light.
-Thai researchers have succeeded in generating electricity from natural gas made from elephant dung.
-Can't see the morons for the trees Illinois State University has cleared away the trees in front of Stevenson Hall so they can begin construction of the sculptured centerpiece of its Fell Arboretum, an area set aside for the preservation and study of trees. -- Bonehead of the Millennium Award
-When the U.S. began the occupation of Iraq 72% of Americans thought that Saddam Hussein ORDERED the September 11th attacks, despite the fact that none of these people ever saw any evidence to support it. In the realm of the uniformed, having a leader is more important than having facts.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female. It is not known how the angler got this beast home or how he (we can assume it's a he, can't we?) fit it in the freezer.
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-In the ant kingdom some ants are soldiers, or army ants. These soldier ants are so genetically designed to fight, pinch, clamp and sting their giant pincers prevent them from feeding themselves. They must rely on other ants to feed them.
-It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
-An ostrich does not stick it's head in a hole to hide.
-Although bourbon is Kentucky's leading export and its production directly employs thousands of people, it is illegal to buy the product in the very counties in which it is produced. They are all, to this day, still dry.
-BEIJING, July 22(Xinhuanet)-A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only, like humans, after a near death experience. Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv, was diagnosed with severe stomach flu with three other monkeys and slipped into critical condition two weeks ago. CRIENGLISH.com reported Thursday. After intensive treatment, her condition stabilized. But to everyone's surprise, when she was released from the clinic, she began walking upright like a human. Her veterinarian says the only possible explanation is that the monkey suffered brain damage from the illness.
-A tortoise can live up to 140 years old. Amazingly some do despite the fact that a tortoise must never fall on it's back, because a tortoise on it's back is a dead tortoise.
-Siamese fighting fish must be kept isolated because they will fight, immediately, often to the death. In an experiment, 2 fish were dropped in a lake. Would this be enough space? Were these tiny fish interested in exploring? No, immediately started fighting.
-A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
-A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
-Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-Hitler slept in and could not be woken when the beaches of Normandy (10 years of Parkinson causes mental inflexibility in all patients) were stormed. and refused to send reinforcements for over 48 hours.
-A cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
-Scientists revealed that the world's oceans have soaked up half of the carbon dioxide pumped into the air by human activities since the beginning of the industrial age, according to two new studies.
-His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
-If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
-I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
-People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
-Give me chastity and continence, but not yet - Saint Augustine (354-430)
-Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
-A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use - Galileo Galilei
-The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work - Emile Zola (1840-1902)
-Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
-In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400 day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
-The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.
-The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
-The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
-The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
-Health regulators estimated that up to 93 percent of silicone breast implants ruptured within 10 years.
-A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
-Why don't humans get along? Principled people with high 'morals' or 'values', plenty of 'devotion', 'passion' etc., and limited information. Those with heavy 'emotional' investments in a particular point of view are most troublesome.
-The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
-The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building(they may have fixed the problem by now..)
-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
-A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
-Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.
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-ABN AMRO- In the 1960s, the Nederlandse Handelmaatschappij (Dutch Trading Society 1824) and the Twentsche Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank Nederland ( ABN General Bank of the Netherlands). In 1966, the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank merged to form the Amro Bank. In 1991, ABNand Amro Bank merged to form ABN AMRO.
-Acccenture- Accent on the Future. Greater-than 'accent' over the logo's t points forward towards the future. The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norwayas part of a internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Prior to January 1, 2001 the company was called Andersen Consulting.
-Adidas- from the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
-Adobe- came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.
-AltaVista- Spanish for "high view".
-Amazon.com- Founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company to Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online bookstore as opposed to the then prevalent bookstores. (Alternative: It is said that Jeff Bezos named his book store Amazon simply to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo at the time. Yahoo listed entries alphabetically, and thus Amazon would always appear above its competitors in the relevant categories it was listed in).
-AMD- Advanced Micro Devices.
-Apache- The name was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé), well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. Secondarily, and more popularly (though incorrectly) accepted, it's considered a cute name that stuck: its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'a patchy' server â€" thus the name Apache.
-Apple- For the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computer if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 p.m. Apple's Macintosh is named after a popular variety of apple sold in the US. Apple also wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by the other computer companies at the time had names like IBM, NEC, DEC, ADPAC, Cincom, Dylakor, Input, Integral Systems, SAP, PSDI, Syncsort and Tesseract. The new company sought to reverse the entrenched view of computers in order to get people to use them at home. They looked for a name that was unlike the names of traditional computer companies, a name that also supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different. Note: Apple had to get approval from the Beatle's Apple Corps to use the name 'Apple' and paid a one-time royalty of $100,000 to McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., a maker of high-end audio equipment, to use the derivative name 'Macintosh', known now as just 'Mac'.
-AT&T- American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its name to AT&T in the 1990s.
-Bauknecht- Founded as an electro technical workshop in 1919 by Gottlob Bauknecht.
-BBC- Stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.
-BenQ- Bringing ENjoyment and Quality to life.
-Blaupunkt- Blaupunkt (Blue dot) was founded in 1923 under the name Ideal. Their core business was the manufacturing of headphones. If the headphones came through quality tests, the company would give the headphones a blue dot. The headphones quickly became known as the blue dots or blaue Punkte. The quality symbol would become a trademark, and the trademark would become the company name in 1938.
-BMW- Abbreviation of Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Factories).
-Borealis- The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis, is the celestial phenomenon that features bursts of light in colorful patterns dancing across the night skies of the north. Borealis, inspired from the shining brilliance of the Northern Lights, was formed in 1994 out of the merger between two northern oil companies, Norway's Statoil and Finland's Neste.
-BP- Formerly British Petroleum, now "BP" (The slogan "Beyond Petroleum" has incorrectly been taken to refer to the company's new name following its re-branding effort in 2000).
-BRAC- Abbreviation for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, world's largest NGO (non governmental organization). It works in development programs around the world.
-Bridgestone- Named after founder Shojiro Ishibashi. The surname Ishibashi (??) means "stone bridge", i.e. "bridge of stone".
-Bull- Compagnie des machines Bull was founded in Paristo exploit the patents for punched card machines taken out by a Norwegian engineer, Fredrik Rosing Bull.
-Cadillac- Cadillac was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe , sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan. Cadillac is a small town in the South of France.
-Canon- Originally (1933) Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory the new name (1935) derived from the name of the company's first camera, the Kwannon, in turn named after the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy.
-CGI- From the first letter of Information Management Consultant in french (Conseiller en Gestion et Informatique).
-Cisco- Short for San Francisco. It has also been suggested that it was "CIS-co" -- Computer Information Services was the department at StanfordUniversitythat the founders worked in.
-COBRA- Computadores Brasileiros, "Brazilian Computers", electronics and services company, was the first state-owned designer and producer of computers in the 1970s, later acquired by the Banco do Brazil.
-Coca-Cola- Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring. Coca-Cola creator John S. Pemberton changed the 'K' of kola to 'C' for the name to look better.
-Colgate-Palmolive- Formed from a merger of soap manufacturers Colgate & Company and Palmolive-Peet. Peet was dropped in 1953. Colgate was named after WilliamColgate, an English immigrant, who set up a starch, soap and candle business in New York Cityin 1806. Palmolive was named for the two oils (Palm and Olive) used in its manufacture.
-Compaq- From "comp" for computer, and "pack" to denote a small integral object; or: Compatibility And Quality; or: from the company's first product, the very compact Compaq Portable.
-Comsat- An American digital telecommunications and satellite company, founded during the President Kennedy era to develop the technology. Contraction of Communications Satellites.
-Daewoo- The company founder Kim Woo Chong called it Daewoo which means "Great Universe" in Korean.
-Dell- Named after its founder, Michael Dell. The company changed its name from Dell Computer in 2003.
-DHL- The company was founded by Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom , and Robert Lynn , whose last initials form the company's moniker.
-eBay- Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. " EchoBay" didn't refer to the town in Nevada, the nature area close to Lake Mead, or any real place. "It just sounded cool," Omidyar reportedly said. When he tried to register EchoBay.com, though, he found that Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, had gotten it first. So, Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.
-Epson- Epson Seiko Corporation, the Japanese printer and peripheral manufacturer, was named from "Son of Electronic Printer".
-Fanta- was originally invented by Max Keith in Germanyin 1940 when World War II made it difficult to get the Coca-Cola syrup to Nazi Germany. Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam production. The name comes from the German word for imagination (Fantasie or Phantasie), because the inventors thought that imagination was needed to taste oranges from the strange mix.
-Fazer- Named after its founder, Karl Fazer.
-Fiat- Acronym of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Factory of Cars of Turin).
-Fuji- From the highest Japanese mountain Mount Fuji.
-Google- The name is an intentional misspelling of the word googol, reflecting the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.
-Haier- Chinese ? "sea" and ? (a transliteration character; also means "you" in Literary Chinese)
-HP- Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
-Hitachi- Old place name, literally "sunrise"
-Honda- From the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda.
-Honeywell- From the name of Mark Honeywell founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co. It later merged with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company and was finally called Honeywell Inc. in 1963.
-Hotmail- Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" - the markup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. (If you click on Hotmail's 'mail' tab, you will still find "HoTMaiL" in the URL).
-HSBC- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
-Hyundai- Connotes the sense of "the present age" or "modernity" in Korean.
-IBM- Named by Tom Watson, an ex-employee of National Cash Register. To one-up them in all respects, he called his company International Business Machines.
-ICL- Abbreviation for International Computers Ltd, once the UK's largest computer company, but now a service arm of Fujitsu, of Japan.
-IKON- Copier company name derived from I Know One Name.
-Intel- Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore initially incorporated their company as N M Electronics. Someone suggested Moore Noyce Electronics but it sounded too close to "more noise" -- not a good choice for an electronics company! Later, Integrated Electronics was proposed but it had been taken by somebody else. Then, using initial syllables from INTegrated ELectronics, Noyce and Moore came up with Intel. To avoid potential conflicts with other companies of similar names, Intel purchased the name rights for $15,000 from a company called Intelco. (Source: Intel 15 Years Corporate Anniversary Brochure).
-Interland- A web hosting provider formally known as Micron Computer, Inc. which was named either after Internet Land or the combination of the largest acqusition it performed, Interliant with the word Land.
-Kawasaki- From the name of its founder, Shozo Kawasaki
-Kodak- Both the Kodak camera and the name were the invention of founder George Eastman . The letter "K" was a favorite with Eastman; he felt it a strong and incisive letter. He tried out various combinations of words starting and ending with "K". He saw three advantages in the name. It had the merits of a trademark word, would not be mis-pronounced and the name did not resemble anything in the art. There is a misconception that the name was chosen because of its similarity to the sound produced by the shutter of the camera.
-Konica- It was earlier known as Konishiroku Kogaku. Konishiroku in turn is the short for Konishiya Rokubeiten which was the first name of the company established by Rokusaburo Sugiura in the 1850s.
-Korg- Formed from the surnames of the founders, Tsutomu Katoh and Tadashi Osanai, combined with the letters "rg" from the word organ.
-LG- Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. (In Mexicopublicists explained the name change to the public as an abbreviation to LÃnea Goldstar Spanish for Goldstar Line).
-L'Oréal- In 1907, Eugène Schueller, a young French chemist, developed an innovative hair-color formula. He called his improved hair dye Auréole.
-Lotus Software- Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
-Lucent Technologies- a spin-off from AT&T, it was named Lucent (meaning "luminous" or "glowing with light") because "light as a metaphor for visionary thinking reflected the company's operating and guiding business philosophy," according to the Landor Associates staff who chose the name. Source: Design Management Journal 8:1 (Winter 1997).
-Lycos- From Lycosidae, the family of wolf spiders.
-Mazda Motor- From the company's first president, Jujiro Matsuda . In Japanese, no syllables are ever stressed and some inner syllables are virtually skipped. Thus, Matsuda is pronounced "Matsda". To make the name fly better outside of Japan, the spelling was changed to Mazda.
-McDonald's- From the name of the brothers Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald, who founded the first McDonald 's restaurant in 1940.
-Mercedes- This is the first name of the daughter of Emil Jellinek, who worked for the early Daimler company around 1900.
-MGM- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed by the merger of three picture houses Metro Picture Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Goldwyn Picture Corporation in turn was named after the last names of Samuel Goldfish and Edgar and Archibald Selwyn.
-Micron- Computer memory producer named after the microscopic parts of its products. The official name was Micron Computer, Inc. Since, the company has become Interland, a web hosting provider, after selling/spinning off its RAM division and closing down its computer division, licensing the name. The company is now headquartered in Atlanta.
-Microsoft- Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.
-midPhase- The post-dotcom era gave using the .com in a companies official name untrendy. A new dotcom company may be named traditionally, in midPhase's case it was named midPhase Services, Inc., the midPhase stands for Middle Phase, or middle of the road.
-Mitsubishi- The name Mitsubishi (??) has two parts: mitsu means three and hishi (changing to bishi in the middle of the word) means water chestnut, and from here rhombus, which is reflected in the company's logo.
-Motorola- Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company (at the time, Galvin Manufacturing Company) started manufacturing radios for cars. Many audio equipment makers of the era used the " ola" ending for their products, most famously the "Victrola" phonograph made by the Victor Talking Machine Company. The name was meant to convey the idea of "sound" and "motion". The name became so recognized that the company later adopted it as the company name.
-Mozilla Foundation- From the name of the web-browser that preceded Netscape Navigator. When Marc Andreesen , founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace the Mosaic browser, it was internally named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla) by Jamie Zawinski.
-MRF- Madras Rubber Factory, founded by K M Mammen Mappillai in 1946. He started with a toy balloon-manufacturing unit at Tiruvottiyur, Chennai (then called Madras). In 1952, he began manufacturing tread-rubber, and in 1961, tyres.
-Nero- Nero Burning ROM named after Nero burning Rome.
-Netscape- Named by first marketing employee Greg Sands, in a panic when the University of Illinois threatened to sue the new company for its original name, Mosaic. Netscape then paid Landor $50,000 to design a logo.
-Nike- Named for the Greek goddess of victory.
-Nikon- The original name was Nippon Kogaku, meaning "Japanese Optical".
-Nissan- The company was earlier known by the name Nippon Sangyo which means "Japanese industry".
-Nokia- Started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia. The company later adopted the city's name.
-Nortel- The Nortel Networks name came from Nortel (Northern Telecom) and Bay Networks. The company was originally spun off from the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd in 1895 as Northern Electric and Manufacturing, and traded as Northern Electric from 1914 to 1976.
-Novartis- After the Latin _expression "novae artes" which means something like "new skills".
-Oracle- Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or some such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. The project eventually was terminated but they decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they changed the name of the company, Relational Technology Inc, to the name of the product.
-Pepsi- Pepsi derives its name from (treatment of) dyspepsia, an intestinal ailment.
-Philips- Royal Philips Electronics was founded in 1891, by brothers Gerard (the engineer) and Anton (the entrepreneur) Philips .
-Qantas- From its original name, Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services.
-Red Hat- Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. People would turn to him to solve their problems, and he was referred to as 'that guy in the red hat'. He lost the cap and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone.
-Reebok- Another spelling of rhebok (Pelea capreolus), an African antelope.
-SAAB- Founded in 1937 in Swedenas "Svenska Aeroplan aktiebolaget" (Swedish Aeroplane Company) abbreviated SAAB.
-Samsonite- Samsonite was launched as a brand in 1941, receiving its name from the Biblical character Samson, renowned for his strength.
-Samsung- Meaning three stars in Korean.
-Sanyo- The Japanese translation is disputed, although the Chinese name is "??" (literally, "Three Oceans").
-SAP- "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formerly "System Analyse and Programmentwicklung" (German for "System analysis and program development"), formed by 4 ex- IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.
-SEGA- "Service Games of Japan" (SeGa) Founded by Marty Bromley (an American) to import pinball games to Japanfor use on American military bases.
-Sharp- Japanese consumer electronics company named from its first product, an ever-sharp pencil.
-Shell- Royal Dutch Shell was established in 1907, when the Royal Netherlands Petrol Society Plc. and the Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd. merged. The Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd. had been established at the end of the 19th century, by commercial firm Samuel & Co (founded in 1830). Samuel & Co were already successfully importing Japanese shells when they set up an oil company, so the oil company was named after the shells Samuel & Co were importing.
-Siemens- founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske: the company was originally called Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske.
-Sprint- From its parent company, Southern Pacific Railroad INTernal Communications. Back in the day, pipelines and railroad tracks were the cheapest place to lay communications lines, as the right-of-way was already leased or owned.
-Sun Microsystems- Its founders designed their first workstation in their dorm at Stanford University, and chose the name Stanford University Network for their product, hoping to sell it to the college. They didn't.
-Suzuki- From the name of its founder, Michio Suzuki.
-Tesco- Founder Jack Cohen, who from 1919 sold groceries in the markets of the London East End, acquired a large shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and made new labels by using the first three letters of the supplier's name and the first two letters of his surname forming the word "TESCO".
-Toshiba- Was founded by the merger of consumer goods company Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and electrical firm Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).
-Toyota- From the founder's name Sakichi Toyoda. Initially called Toyeda, it was changed after a contest for a better-sounding name. The new name was written in katakana with eight strokes, a number that is considered lucky in Japan.
-Unisys- Made-up name for the company that resulted from the combination of two old mainframe computer companies, Burroughs and Sperry [Sperry Univac/Sperry Rand]. It "united" two incompatible ranges. Unisys was briefly the world's second-largest computer company, after IBM.
-Verizon- A portmanteau of veritas (Latin for truth) and horizon.
-Vodafone- Is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in the United Kingdom. Its name is made up of VOice, DAta, TeleFONE. Vodafone made the UK's first mobile call at a few minutes past midnight on the 1 January 1985.
-Volvo- From the Latin word "volvo", which means "I roll". It was originally a name for a ball bearing being developed by SKF.
-Xerox- The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.
-Yahoo!- A "backronym" for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang selected the name because they jokingly considered themselves yahoos.
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-Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
-A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
-A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that..
-A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.(My geuss is the frequancy)
-A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
-During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (That explains some randoms)
-Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
-Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
-The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before that book was published.
-The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.(Curious how one found out this information)
-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.(Classic fact)
-The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
-The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
-The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
-The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
-Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
-By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.(Ponders when this fact could possibly be of any use...you never know i geuss)
-Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
-An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
-The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
-Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.(I recall seeing 'Batman' taking a right once..)
-Hewlett Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
-Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
-Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
-If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
-In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
-Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.(Ponders how such things come to pass)
-Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
-The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
-The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.(..Who are these people getting animals and insects (who knows what else) drunk..)
-The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six drivers licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
-People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the same symbol.
-Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro.
-Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 "puppy" teeth, then 42 adult teeth.
-A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
-The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
-Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
-There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia.
-Twenty years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
-A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
-Author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide recently, wanted to be cremated and his ashes to be shot out of a cannon on his ranch.
-Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
-There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelery for a loved one.(Now that is impressive)
-The RIAA sued an 83 year old woman for downloading music illegally, even though a copy of her death certificate was sent to the RIAA a week before it filed the suit.
-Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.(Not surprised)
-A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.(No clue on SAT scores or how they work, someone should make one test universal)
-Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers. The Ku Klux Klan is also involved in the adopt-a-road program in the state of Arkansas.(How.. Why.. WFT..)
-Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".
-McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).
-The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
-Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government.(The police don't even carry guns here..(N.Z))
-All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
-A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.(Who gives these people power, someone has to..)
-Only 6% of the autographs in circulation from members of the Beatles are estimated to be real.(If you own such a signature.. what are the odds)
-The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.(This takes the cake, i now will collect a list of 'wasted' manpower/funds/time, just to see how many ..'trillians??'.. are wasted each annually)
-John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.(Who doesn't/wouldn't(privately naturally))
-41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.(Explains the higher ratio of asian style fastfood establishments)
-A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.(Harsh)
-So many Americans decided not to get a flu shot in winter 2004/2005 that there is now a surplus of flu immunizations; if more people don't get flu shots soon, there will be thousands of doses that will go to waste.
-G-rated family films earn far more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
-Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.(Hehe)
-More people (300million) study English in China than speak it in the United States of America.
-More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
-For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
-There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
-1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
-A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
-The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon..
-The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve.
-In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.(Something i didn't know)
-Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.
-Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.
-The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.(Now that is funny)
-Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.
-90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
-There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.
-A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day.(Sleep Well)
-John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president...
-Only 939 of the 1,400,000 high school seniors who took the SAT in 2004 got a perfect score of 1600. Two of them are twin brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith from Long Island, NY.
-In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.
-A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.(Imagine looking after that bunch)
-Even today, 85% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
-Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".
-Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.(Naturally)
-The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.(The point..??..)
-55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.
-All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) "rotten imperialist reactionary culture".(Good1)
-La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
-George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
-Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
-If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
-Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
-The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.
-CBS's fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast.
-Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.
-In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
-A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
-Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.
-Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States alone. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez(Major Spill).
-An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.
-In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
-Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.(Scetchy geusstimation if you ask me)
-At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.
-A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.(Blimey..)
-The New York City subway system, in an effort to raise revenue, is/was considering selling sponsorships of individual stations to corporations. Riders could soon be getting off at Nike Grand Central Station or Sony Times Square.
-The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.
-Gerald Ford once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan magazine.
-Gillette spent $1,000,000 to place razor samples in the welcome bags handed out at the Democratic National Convention, only to have them confiscated as they were considered a threat. This caused huge delays at all security checkpoints.
-Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.
-Jim Carrey voted in 2004 at the Beverly Hills City Hall. He had an assistant wait in line for him, however.
-As part of a charity event, 500 cats were spayed and neutered in the cafeteria of an elementary school. School was cancelled for days and $10,000 was spent on cleaning and sterilizing the room.(I bet they felt clever)
-The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
-Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.(Smells about right)
-The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.(Wonders if it's run by teens like most everywhere else)
-A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000.(Now that is interesting...)
-There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.(I want a Puma(Black Panther), only if i had the land)
-The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.(Crocodiles are another, fish eggs also popular)
-The number of US college students studying Latin is three times the number studying Arabic.
-In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.(Life evolves, why some think we(Humans)do not is beyond me)
-If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.(Vibrations..)
-Some dogs can predict when a someone is about to have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the individual from injury. (They're not trained to do this, they are believed to smell certain 'oders' before an attack arises)
-32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. (Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel..)
-The remains of 125 people will be launched into space where they will orbit the Earth for centuries.
-The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide.
-So far, Congress has authorized $152,600,000,000 for the Iraq war. This is enough to build over 17,500 elementary schools.(Or feed/cure alot of people)
-The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
-20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.(Tell me it isn't so..)
-The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market.
-On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night.
-When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
-There is a new television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite.(Sigh)
-The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.(Location-Location-Location)
-French author Michel Thaler published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.
-The spring thaw finally allows cemeteries in Alaska to start digging graves for those who died during the winter.
-Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen turned 18 in mid-2004, they will took official control of a company worth more than the gross national product of Mongolia. (Their earnings in 2003 topped $1 billion)
-New York City drinking water might not be kosher; it contains harmless micro-organisms that are technically shellfish.
-David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.
-A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
-In 1997, a woman in Bradenton, Florida lost her cat. In 2004, she got a call from the local animal shelter. The cat turned up wandering the streets in San Francisco, California. The cat's identity was proven with a microchip that had been implanted prior to 1997.(Impressive Journey)
-Almost 20% of the billions of dollars American taxpayers are spending to rebuild Iraq are lost to theft, kickbacks and corruption.
-The treasury department has more than twenty people assigned to catching people who violate the trade and tourism embargo with Cuba. In contrast, it has only four employees assigned to track the assets of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
-There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
-An estimated 800,000 senior citizens voluntarily give up their driving privileges each year. The average age at which they surrender the wheel is 85.
-More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean war.
-3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
-82% of Americans made a purchase at Wal-Mart in 2002.
-71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.(Hehe)
-The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
-Trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.(What's next)
-Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.
-One out of five people in the world live on less than $1 per day.
-The Swedish pop group ABBA recently turned down an offer of $2 billion to reunite.
-35 Billion(give or take a couple) e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
-The richest self-made American under 40 is Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computers. He is/was worth $18 billion.
-Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy.
-Airport security agents at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts caught a passenger trying to sneak a severed seal head onto a plane inside a cooler. The man said he was a biology professor and had found the dead animal on the beach.(Weird)
-Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia.
-A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
-The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
-Last December, the House of Representatives earmarked $50,000,000 to create an indoor rain forest in Iowa.
-Amusement park attendance goes up after a fatal accident. It seems many people want to ride upon the same ride that killed someone.
-For every tonne of fish that is caught in all the oceans on our planet, there are three tons of garbage dumped into the oceans.
-People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT.(Who does this research..)
-More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last, an increase that may be a result of the abuse of substances purchased with benefit checks that come at the beginning of each month.
-A Massachusetts surgeon left a patient with an open incision for 35 minutes while he went to deposit a check.
-In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.
-There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
-The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.
-The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
-In an effort to encourage the use of nuclear energy, the United States lent highly enriched uranium to countries all over the world between 1950 and 1988. Enough weapons-grade material to make 1,000 nuclear bombs has still not been returned by such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Israel and South Africa.
-Homing pigeons use roads where possible to help find their way home. In fact, some pigeons followed roads so closely that they actually flew around traffic circles before choosing the exit that led them home.
-Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
-A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
-Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
-We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday.
-Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
-In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.(Amusing)
-An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.
-During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.
-Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
-The Mars Rover "Spirit" is powered by six small motors the size of "C" batteries. It has a top speed of 0.1 mph.
-The entire town of Capena, Italy (including children as young as 2 years old) lights up cigarettes each year in honor of St. Anthony's Day. This tradition is centuries old.(Proving true stupidity knows not of time)
-Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.(Should have seen that coming)
-As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, but a death every 13 seconds.
-There is a Starbucks in Myungdong, South Korea that is five stories tall.
-Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
-There has been no mail delivery in Canada on Saturday for the last thirty five years.
-The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly.
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
-The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
-There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.
-The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
-Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
-The Bible has been translated into Klingon.(.. im speechless)
-Toto (the dog)was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
-Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
-To help reduce budget deficits, several states have begun reducing the amount of food served to prison inmates. In Texas, the number of daily calories served to prisoners was cut by 300, saving the state $6,000,000 per year.
-The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
-Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.(They like vibrations..??)
-The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator."
-The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
-The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
-65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
-It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
-The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.(Hehe)
-The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
-A snail can also sleep for three years.
-There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
-In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
-Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.
-1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
-A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
-Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
-A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
-Snails can have about 25,000 teeth.
-A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.(Impressive considering it has no brain)
-A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.
-A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
-According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.(Say no more, i am convinced)
-Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.
-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
-The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
-Cats can hear ultrasound.
-The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
-Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.
-If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".(My g/f points out, you would need to get to 1 billion before reaching a 'b' ..)
-Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
-A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
-There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
-Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
-40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
-Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
-Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
-Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3
-Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
-Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
-An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
-In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
-February 1865 was the only month in recorded history that didn't have a full moon.
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.(Umm..)
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.(.........)
-When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
-The youngest pope was 11 years old.
-Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
-Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
-Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
-They have square watermelons in Japan.(they stack better..)
-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
-A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
-The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.
-The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.(You are more likely to dream if you eat something directly before sleeping)
-Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
-The State of Florida is bigger than England.
-Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
-Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
-In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
-About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
-In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
-Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
-Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue..
-It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
-There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
-Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
-The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
-Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
-A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
-A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
-There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
-Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
-Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
-In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
-Every time you take a sip of water, you're drinking hydrogen atoms made during the creation of our universe over 12 billion years ago.
-To be, or not to be, that is the question, why is another perspective.
-Everyone has a photographic memory. Not everyone has film.(So true)
-Expect nothing, you will not be dissapointed.
-The greeks invented philosophy over 3000 years ago, philosophy is basically thinking.. about thinking, which is kind of weird when you think about it.. Heh
-Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. (Minna Antrim)
-Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it. (Lao Tsu)
-The only perfect science is hind-sight.
-If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an anthitetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation." (Max DePree)
-If parents would only realize how they bore their children. (G.B. Shaw)
-All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. (Woody Allen)
-The SAME WAVE keeps coming in and COLLAPSING like a rayon MUU-MUU ...(Anon)
-concerning quotation marks] even if we *__did* quote anybody in this business, it probably would be gibberish. (Thom McLeod)
-Envy, n.: Wishing you'd been born with an unfair advantage, instead of having to try and acquire one.
-Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. (Alexander Pope (on runtime bounds checking? heh))
-The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal. (Blair)
-To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the competent.
-The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.
-We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
-With a rubber duck, one's never alone. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
-"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!" ... "Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" (Doonesbury)
-The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me. (Nicol Williamson)
-Microsoft is like a mountain with their installed base. Like it or not, no matter how loud the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it. (Jeff Merkey on linux-advoca^Wkernel)
-Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives. :-)
-The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End.
-mophobia, n.: Fear of being verbally abused by a Mississippian.
-Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
-101-ism: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
-Random- At that point it will compile, but segfault, as it should..
-And here I wait so patiently; Waiting to find out what price; You have to pay to get out of; Going thru all of these things twice..
-Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. (Oscar Wilde)
-Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull inbetween. (Alfred E. Neuman)
-Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations.
-Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs.
-Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats.
-Chinese saying: "He who speak with forked tongue, not need chopsticks."
-There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. (Not to sure about that one..)
-Responsibility: Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they're smart, that is.
-There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
-Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.
-Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed.
-Understatement of the Century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" (Linus Torvalds, August 1991)
-"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."
-"Rome wasn't burned in a day."
-If you notice that a person is deceiving you, they must not be deceiving you very well.
-Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them.
-If i sound like Yoda, or come across sounding smart, you are only admitting to yourself you are stupid.
-There was a mad scientist (a mad... social... scientist) who kidnapped three colleagues, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no can opener. A month later, returning, the mad scientist went to the engineer's cell and found it long empty. The engineer had constructed a can opener from pocket trash, used aluminum shavings and dried sugar to make an explosive, and escaped. The physicist had worked out the angle necessary to knock the lids off the tin cans by throwing them against the wall. She was developing a good pitching arm and a new quantum theory. The mathematician had stacked the unopened cans into a surprising solution to the kissing problem; his dessicated corpse was propped calmly against a wall, and this was inscribed on the floor. :Theorem: If I can't open these cans, I'll die. :Proof: assume the opposite...
-Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
-Expense Accounts, n.: Corporate food stamps.
-Any activity that can't be done while smoking should be avoided. (Heh)
-This is a one line proof... if we start sufficiently far to the left.
-You may take my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. (Shakespeare)
-In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations.. it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
-Ignore previous fortune.
-History is on our side (as long as we can control the historians).
-The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
-Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.
-Its the InterNIC's fault..
-Your lucky number has been disconnected.
-A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased.
-Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. (Allen Kay)
-A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Mark Twain)
-Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
-No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it.
-If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager ~_~
-There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of overcrowding induces violence. Ref: History.
-I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance...
-Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
-Whenever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure that they're not using it.
-Self Test for Paranoia: You know you have it when you can't think of anything that's your own fault.
-It's amazing how much better you feel once you've given up hope.
-Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.
-Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
-Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be misinterpreted by somebody.
-Boy, am I glad it's only 1971. Anonymous (2001)
-It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." (Abraham Lincoln)
-You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN.
-God is real, unless declared integer.. Heh
-Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
-Eloquence is logic on fire.
-If an S and an I and an O and a U With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do But to go commit siouxeyesighed.
-Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
-Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots.
-If you're constantly being mistreated, you're cooperating with the treatment.
-There are two concepts of intelligence? 1: Fluid Intelligence includes such abilities as problem-solving, memory, learning, and pattern recognition. 2: Crystallized Intelligence is more static, consisting primarily of acquired knowledge.
-"Your mind is like a room. You have to put stuff in it, or else it will stay empty."- Silentstalker
-There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.
-Alfred Binet invented the intelligence quotient or IQ test to determine which children would not benefit from more schooling.
-Sarcasm is the refuge of a shallow mind.
-Scientific research has been found to be a leading cause of cancer in rats..
-Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
-Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
-What is the hottest place on Earth? El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
-A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
-A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
-Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
-Hitler was regularly given injections of amphetamine by his doctor.
-The oil from hemp seeds has the highest percentage of essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats.
-In 2002, the following amount of electricity, in gigawatt-hours, was generated from the following sources of fuel: * Coal: 1,925,792 GWh * Nuclear: 779,461 GWh * Gas: 695,226 GWh * Hydro: 255,077 GWh * Fuel oil: 91,629 GWh * Biomass: 71,534 GWh * Other (geothermal, non-wood waste, wind and solar): 22,737 GWh..
-The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
-The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.
-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
-Hitler had Parkinson's disease and had a significant tremor in his left hand which was censored in the German media. He also had syphillis which causes insane rage in it's advanced stages.
-By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks. The same applies to some plants..
-The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
-Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers
-If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-45.2% of people pee in the shower.
-No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less. Edgar Watson Howe
-Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.
-Of 200 Anglican priests polled only 68 could name all Ten Commandments. Half, however, said they believed in space aliens.
-What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now. The Buddha
-The tallest tree on the planet, a giant redwood that soars 370 feet into the California sky, is still growing..
-Bill McCoy was a bootlegger well known for selling quality imported goods. Hence the phrase "Is that the real McCoy."
-They take their milkshakes pretty seriously in Detroit. When Alfred Pointer and his wife complained about a watery milkshake they received from the drive through of a McDonald's restaurant, the attendant suggested Mr. Pointer come inside for a refund. There he was allegedly beaten by three employees. The couple has filed a $100 million lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. and the owners of the franchise. [If they get that upset over milkshakes in Detroit, I wonder what they would have done to him if he had said Chefs suck?
-Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
-Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
-Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
-Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
-Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.
-Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
-Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.
-Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
-About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body.
-53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
-More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
-Breathing through your mouth while chopping onions will help reduce the tears ;)
-The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
-Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!
-In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
-Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
-A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.
-The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.
-Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
-28.1% of people pee in the pool !
-The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
-Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine.
-Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
-What country will you find the most Universities? India.
-Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.
-People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-It is illegal for tourists to enter Mexico with more than 2 CD's!
-Originally Luke Skywalker was named Luke Starkiller.
-'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.. Can't say I knew that 1..Heh
-Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.
-A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
-An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
-About 25% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
-Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
-In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'..
-Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.
-Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
-It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
-Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
-'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth!
-Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
-A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
-Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
-Linen is actually stronger when wet.
-If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
-The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
-Goats do not have upper front teeth.
-A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
-Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
-Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. - an0nymous.user
-I want a man who will love me for my mind and not my body,but will play with my body and not my mind - Ha zel
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