PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAY BOERSMA

“For a moment, nothing happened.
 Then, after a second or so,
 nothing continued to happen.”

 Douglas Adams

“At a time like this it behooves all decent men
 to nearly stand up and be almost heard,”

 Terry Prachett

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry,
 and narrow-mindedness and many
 of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”

 Mark Twain

“Adam was but human—this explains it all.
 He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake,
 he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”

 Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

“I have got no further than this:
 every man has a right to utter
 what he thinks truth,
 and every other man has a right
 to knock him down for it. ”

 Samuel Johnson, 1780

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ”

 Sir Isaac Newton

“When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.”

 Samuel Butler, Notebooks 1912

“Life’s too short for chess.”

 H. J. Byron

“There’s more to boxing than hitting.
 There’s not getting hit.”

 George Foreman

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. ”

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Copper Beeches

“If you’re not in New York,
 you’re camping out.”

 Thomas E. Dewey

“I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy
 in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.”

 W.C. Fields

“I want to be sedated.”

 The Ramones

“The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face. ”

 Bob Dylan

“Who put the bop in the bop sh-bop sh-bop?”

 Barry Mann, 1961

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

 John Lennon

“Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe;
 He still remember’d that he once was young.”

 Dr. John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health, 1744

“Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.”

 Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races, 1937

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs
 of his tribe are the laws of nature.”

 George Bernard Shaw

“To give an accurate and exhaustive
 account of that period would need
 a far less brilliant pen than mine. ”

 Max Beerbohm

“Love ceases to be a pleasure
 When it ceases to be a secret.”

 Mrs. Aphra Behn, 1640-1689

“One of the symptoms of an approaching
 nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
 terribly important.”

 Bertrand Russell

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
 adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.”

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
  I am the very model of a modern Major-General.”

 Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance

“I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”

 Mark Twain

“Yes,” I answered you last night;
“No,” this morning, sir, I say.
  Colors seen by candlelight
  Will not look the same by day.”

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Lady’s Yes

“The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.”

 Charles De Gaulle, Speech, 1951

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Science is a way of not fooling yourself.”

 Richard Feynman

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

 Clarence Darrow

“He has all the virtues I dislike
 and none of the vices I admire.”

 Winston Churchill

“When science discovers the center of the universe,
 a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.”

 Bernard Baily

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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

 Thomas Watson, IBM Chairman, 1943

“There is no reason anyone would
 want a computer in their home”

 Ken Olson, Founder, Digital Equipment Corporation

“Most of the smart people in the world
 don't work for your organization.”

 Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing
 is often a good thing to do and
 always a clever thing to say.”

 Will Durant