We became a part of what we contemplate. - Plato (In use from about November 1997 to June 1998) I pledge allegiance to The Tie Of the University of Waterloo Mathematics And the Faculty for which it stands. One Faculty, under the Dean, Indivisible, With lemmas and algorithms for all. - Unknown (In use from about November 1997 to April 1998) There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics. - Sam Clement (Mark Twain) (In use from June 1998 to November 1998) Modula Modula Modula-3 How much fun can a Modula be? Contracts and Larch traits, hmm, let me think, gee... I guess I would rather drive into a tree Or be thrown through a window, or stung by a bee, Or be strapped to an anchor and dropped in the sea, Or to have a huge sewer rat gnaw at my knee, Or be trapped in a room watching OJTV. Modula Modula Modula-3 Don't you dare try to Modula me! So until the day that I can program in C, I'll dream of a world that's Modula-free. - Josh Cameron (In use for about a week in December 1998) Thou shall now sit with a statistician nor commit a social science. - W. H. Auden (In use from December 1998 to May 1999) Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiquitas non caperet. - Pierre de Fermat (In use from May 1999 to September 1999) Senatus Populusque Romanus - Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Augustus) (In use from September 1999 to March 2000) "I bet the human brain is a kludge." -- Marvin Minsky (In use from March 2000 to August 2000) ========================================================================= Michael Cole 3B Computer Science, Faculty of Math, University of Waterloo Ex Mens et Manus, Vertais, Luxor et Scientia http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mcole or mailto:mcole@uwaterloo.ca The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. -- Abraham Lincoln ========================================================================= (In use in early August 2000) (Preserving the above format and using a new quote instead of Lincoln, the quotes are listed below.) The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (In use from late August to mid September 2000) Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old. -- Lewis Lapham (In use from mid September to late September 2000) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (In use from late September to mid October 2000) The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. -- Mario Cuomo (In use from mid to late October 2000) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein (In use from mid October to Early November 2000) It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science. - Niels Bohr (In use from Early November to Mid December 2000) O tempora! O mores! -Marcus Tullius Cicero (In use from Mid December 2000 to Late May 2001) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (In use from Late May to Late June) For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken (In use from May 2001 to September 2002) (Using a new format) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cole mailto: m j c o l e (at) b i g f o o t (dot) c o m phone: +01-416-574-2653 work: +01-416-326-6025 Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children. -- W.H. Auden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (In use from September to October) "In the future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes." - Andy Warhol (In use from October to February 2003) "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saftey deserve neither liberty not saftey." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 (In use from February to April) "[A free people has] an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers." - John Adams (In use from April to May) "Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?" - Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (In use from May to February 2004) "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." - Mark Twain (In use from February to April) "The [G. W. Bush] Administration chose to run up the national debt to pay for Iraq, but not to pay for what our police and fire personnel need to defend us here at home." - Richard A. Clarke in "Against All Enemies" (In use from April to May) Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down. - Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon (In use from May to July) With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil---that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, Steven Weinberg (In use from July to September) Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley (In use from September to August 2005) A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F. Kennedy (In use from August to present)