Recently in the Quotations Category

I've been meaning for a while to collect in one place all the quotes from my sardonic pal Jack Mantis.

Recently discovered the "pages" publishing system in Movable Type—sort of like blog entries without dates attached, which are outside of the regular flow of entries. Seems like a good place to put material that's going to be updated over time.

So now I have two pages in the Mantis Files section of this blog: Mantis Speaks and Mantis at the Movies. Most of the material in both pages has previously appeared elsewhere on my site at one time or another.

Just came across two quotes attributed to physicist Murray Gell-Mann:

• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves.
• [On the Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm]
  1. Write down the problem.
  2. Think very hard.
  3. Write down the answer.

(In case you're unfamiliar with the original of that first bit, the line is a parody of a line from Newton.)