Famous Quotes

Bad Prediction

640K ought to be enough for anybody. --- Bill Gates in 1981

---but believed to be an urban legend.

Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world's wealthiest men. Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in the 1970s.

During the 1990s rising Microsoft stock prices made Gates the world's wealthiest man; his wealth has at times exceeded $75 billion, making Gates a popular symbol of the

ascendant computer geek of the late 20th century.

"There will never be a bigger plane built."

-- A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.

It's generally a bad idea to say something can't or won't be done, especially in the realm of science and technology. The following are quotations from the past that haunt their speakers today.

Quotes to inspire you

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be!

Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain is on nearly everyone's list of all-time great American

authors.

Twain was raised in Missouri and as a young man held a series of jobs which included work as a printer's apprentice, a Mississippi riverboat pilot, and a newspaperman.

He moved gradually from journalism to travel writing and then to fiction.

His humorous tales of human nature, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1885), remain standard texts in high school and college literature classes.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

Music is what feelings sound like.

Without music, life is to be an error.

---- Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer and organist of the late baroque period. Among the greatest composers in history, he wrote more than 200 cantatas, and numerous works for organ, harpsichord, other solo instruments, and chamber ensembles.

巴赫，约翰·塞巴斯蒂安：(1685-1750) 巴洛克时代晚期的德国作曲家和管风琴家。是历史上最伟大的作曲家之一。他写了200多首大清唱剧,管弦乐作品如六首 《勃兰登堡协奏曲》 和大量管风琴、拨弦古钢琴以及其它独奏乐器作品。

Greek philosopher. A follower of Socrates, he founded the Academy (386), where he taught and wrote for much of the rest of his life. Plato presented his ideas in the form of dramatic dialogues, as inThe Republic.

柏拉图：希腊哲学家，苏格拉底的信徒，他创办了学园（公元前386年），在这里他教书写作度过他余生的大部分时间柏拉图以戏剧对话的形式表述了他的思想.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

真诚是一件危险的事情，除非你既真诚又愚蠢。

-- Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Irish-born British playwright. A founder of the Fabian Society, he wrote plays of iconoclastic social criticism, includingArms and the Man (1894), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.

萧伯纳，乔治·伯纳德：(1856-1950) 爱尔兰裔英国戏剧家，作为费边社的一个创建者，他写了抨击社会的批评主义戏剧，包括《武器和人类》 （1894年）、 《茶花女》 （19xx年）及 《圣女贞德》 （19xx年），他获得19xx年诺贝尔文学奖

一次，萧伯纳正在一侮辱他条狭窄的路上行走，遇到一个对他不满的同行，那人想侮辱他，对他说：“我从不给傻瓜让路的”萧伯纳答道：“我正好相反”。

一天，瘦削的萧伯纳碰到一位大腹便便的商人。

商人讥讽他道：“看见你，人们会以为英国发生了饥荒！”萧伯纳回击道：“看见你，人们

就会明白饥荒发生的原因。”

一位著名女舞蹈家给萧伯纳写了一封热情洋溢的信，信中说：“如果我俩结婚，将来生个孩子，有你那样的智慧和我这样的外貌，该是多么美妙啊！”萧伯纳回信说：“要是那个孩子只有我这样的外貌和你那样的智慧，那岂不糟透了。”

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours, that's relativity."

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-Albert Einstein

German-born American theoretical physicist whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. He won a 1921 Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

爱因斯坦，阿尔贝特：(1879-1955) 德裔美国理论物理学家，他创立的狭义和广义相对论使现代关于时间和时间性质的想法发生突破性进展并给原子能的利用提供了理论基础。 因其对光电效应的解释获19xx年诺贝尔奖

美女與火爐

愛因斯坦曾有一段相當著名：「一個男人與美女對坐一個小時，會覺得似乎只過了一分鐘；但是如果讓他坐在熱火爐一分鐘，會覺得過了不只一小時，這就是相對論。」

有意思的是，這個「美女與火爐」的比喻，竟然是愛因斯坦一則短篇實驗報告的摘要，這或許也是一向重視理論而少實務操作的愛因斯坦，少數親自動手的實驗。

這份看似玩笑的報告中指出，愛因斯坦試著取得一座火爐和一名美女來做實驗。火爐取得問題不大，找到美女可就費了番功夫，由於認識卓別林的關係，愛因斯坦請他代為安排與他的妻子電影明星寶蓮．高黛見面。

愛因斯坦特地自紐澤西州坐火車到紐約中央車站與寶蓮．高黛見面，「我覺得似乎過了一分鐘時，但看看手表發現實際上已過了五十七分鐘」。回到家後，愛因斯坦坐在火爐上，覺得似乎過了一小時的時侯，卻連十秒鐘都不到。愛因斯坦自述，「為保持兩個敍述狀況中的單位一致，我強迫自己待上一分鐘，然後，我打電話找醫生。

I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter ----Winston Churchill (epitaph)

*epitaph 墓志铭体的诗文,墓志铭

Name:Winston Churchill

Sex:Male

Date of birth:1874-1965

Nationality:England

Acquisition awards:In 1953 Nobel literature prize

Best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. At various times a soldier, journalist, author, painter, and politician, Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002 to identify the "100 Greatest Britons", participants voted Churchill as the most important of all.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

我并不是害怕死亡，只是当死亡发生时我并不想在那儿。

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

狮子和小牛能躺在一起，但小牛肯定睡不塌实。

——Woody Allen

号称是继卓别林之后最具喜剧天才的电影导演，果然名不虚传。

American comic actor, writer, and filmmaker whose films includeAnnie Hall (1977), which won two Academy Awards.

艾伦，伍迪：(生于 1935) 美国喜剧演员、作家、电影制作人，他的影片包括《安妮·霍尔》 （19xx年），获两项奥斯卡金像奖

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

谁能管理一个有246种奶酪的国家？

-- Charles de Gaulle 戴高乐

戴高乐将军担任了11年的法国总统，所以也留下了不少治理法兰西的经典短句，其中最著名的是一句他在60年代中期政局动荡又被人指责为独裁时发出的感慨：“你们说，我到底怎样才能治理一个有246种不同奶酪的国家？”（Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage？）

French general and politician. During World War II he gained enormous popularity as the leader of Free French forces in exile. Later, after years of self-imposed retirement, he emerged as the first president (1959-1969) of the Fifth Republic and led the country through its turbulent withdrawal from Algeria.

戴高乐，查尔斯·安德鲁·约瑟夫·玛丽：(1890-1970) 法国将军和政治家。第二次世界大战中，流亡的戴高乐领导了“自由法国运动”，因此赢得广泛的拥戴。后来经过多年自愿的隐居生活，他成为第五共和国的首任总统(1959-19xx年），并率领他的国民从阿尔及利亚浩浩荡荡地撤退

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Don‘t part with your illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain , American writer)

------- Mark Twain

It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do .

(Winston Churchill , British prime minister)

不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。

------- Winston Churchill

Activity is the only road to knowledge .

(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)

行动是通往知识的唯一道路。

------- George Bernard Shaw 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。