Subject: Science/Weather (Page 2)

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

(1857 – 1927) Unitarian Universalist minister

We should go metric every inch of the way.

I can levitate birds… no one cares.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Going fast while you are lost won't help a bit.

Beer math is 2 beers times 37 men equals 49 cases.

He has left his body to science… and science is contesting the will.

(1939 – ) British journalist, comedian, writer & media personality

In India, ‘cold weather’ is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door knob and weather which only makes it mushy.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

A hurricane you can watch come at you for a week on the TV, and you don't get out of the way; a tornado – you're just in a trailer making meth; next thing you know, it's tipped over.

Canadian comedian

It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer; we have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got Saran Wrap – FIX IT!

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

American baseball player

In Alaska, we have just two seasons — this winter and next winter.

(1897 – 1991) American Air Force General

I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete.'

(1953 – ) American comedian & writer

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways; but he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

Space isn’t remote at all; it’s only an hours drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

(1915 – 2001) English astronomer & mathematician

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

The trouble isn’t that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn’t distributed right.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I have the oldest typewriter in the world; it types in pencil.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer