Subject: Science/Weather (Page 16)

It is so hot… potatoes cook underground.

While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase linearly.

Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

I ran into Isosceles; he has a great idea for a new triangle!

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

It was so hot in Beverly Hills, people were frying egg whites on the sidewalk.

American comedian

It is so hot… the cows arre giving evaporated milk.

What Orwell failed to predict was that we’d buy the cameras ourselves… and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.

No matter how clear the skies are, a thunderstorm will move in 5 minutes after the papers are delivered.

I went to Moscow once; it was so cold at night one guy fell out of bed and broke his pajamas.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

It was so cold… the kids at school were using flannel notebooks.

The amount of time you have to wait for a bus is directly proportional to the inclemency of the weather.

I lived in a house that ran on static electricity… if you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head; if you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Space is almost infinite; as a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

(1913 – 1996) Hungarian mathematician

You're flickin' around, all of a sudden – boom – you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

(1917 – ) English physicist & science fiction author

In mathematics you don't understand things… you just get used to them.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

(1893 – 1970) American writer, critic & naturalist

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

(1911 – 1978) U.S. vice president & politician

Sleet: A slipcover.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

(1894 – 1963) English writer