I believe that chess is more than a game. It is a creative
endeavor of the mind, a strategic battle of wills, a science
worthy of the world's most powerful computers, and a beautiful
art when played by the masters.
- Samuel Reshevsky
In the opening a master should play like a book,
In the middle game like a magician,
In the ending like a machine.
- Rudolf Spielmann
Tactics flow from a superior position.
- Bobby Fischer
In maths you need to be right,
in chess only more right than your opponent.
- John Nunn
A good player is always lucky.
- Capablanca
Other Quotes (Non-chess)
A thing a beauty is a joy forever...
- John Keats
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the
established authorities are wrong.
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Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.
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One owes respect to the living. To the dead one owes
only truth.
- Voltaire
Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
- Henry George
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
- "Obi Wan Kenobi" in "Star Wars" by George Lucus
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man;
and writing an exact man.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Never laugh at a live dragon.
- "Bilbo Baggins" in "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually
get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree
to meet them halfway.
- Bernard Avishai
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when
they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which,
when you looked at it in the right way, did not become
still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson (Science Fiction writer)
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we
were beginning to form up into teams, we would be
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend
to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a
wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion
of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency,
and demoralization.
- Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
It is the mind of an under-educated mark,
that entertains without a thought.
- Aristotle Onassis
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge,
but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend
ever more time washing the windows.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of
education there is.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the
one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka!
(I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's funny...'
- Isaac Asimov (Science Fiction writer)
The way of the warrior is death. This means choosing
death whenever there is a choice between life and death.
It means nothing more than this. It means to see things
through, being resolved.
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If you master the principles of sword-fencing, when you
freely beat one man, you beat any man in the world. The
spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men.
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The essence of this (fire) book is that you must train day
and night in order to make quick decisions. In strategy it
is necessary to treat training as a part of normal life...
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It is not difficult to wield a sword in one hand; the way to
learn this is to train with two long swords, one in each
hand. It will seem difficult at first, but everything is
difficult at first.
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In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the
combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday
stance your combat stance. You must research this well.
- Miyamoto Musashi (16th century samurai)
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid
and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty
you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by
the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.
- Randolph Bourne
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- F.H. Bradley
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
- Rita Mae Brown
Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly
danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man
were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards,
I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our
enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
The only difference between me and a madman is that
I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali (Surrealistic artist)
To think is to differ.
- Clarence Darrow
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired
by age 18.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but
not simpler.
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge, for
knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the
entire world.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to
earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
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This year will go down in history. For the first time,
a civilized nation has full gun control. Our streets
will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world
will follow our lead into the future !
- Adolf Hitler
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- Grace Hopper
(Frequently heard in the US Marines)
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the
day, put no trust in the morrow!)
- Horace
carpe diem......... seize the day
carpe noctum....... seize the night
carp diem......... complain daily
carp deum......... god is a fish
carpe per diem..... seize the check
carpe carp........ seize the fish
carpe canem........ seize the dog
carpe calypso...... seize the DAY-O
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
- Mae West
Always do right. This will gratify some people and
astonish others.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you; that is the principal difference
between a dog and a man.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear!
- Mark Twain
Well done is better than well said.
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Fish and visitors stink in three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
You already have zero privacy. Get over it.
- Scott McNealy - Sun Microsystems
640K ought to be enough for anybody. (1981)
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I believe OS/2...to be the most important OS...of
all time. (1987)
- Bill Gates - Microsoft
The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive
him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to
see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather
into your bosom his wives and daughters.
- Genghis Kahn
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