Master: “May the wind always be behind your back. “
Student: “What, and fuck up my hair?”
“The major philosophical problem with the block-Universe interpretation of four-dimensional spacetime is that it appears to be fatalism disguised as physics. It seems to be a mathematician’s proof of determinism and a denial of free will dressed up in geometry.”
- Paul J. Nahin, from Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
- Lou Holtz, American football coach“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
- Woody Allen“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
- Theodore Sturgeon, fiction writer“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
- Thomas Edison“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
- Buckminster Fuller
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”- Steven Pinker, from My Genome, My Self