Quotations – Page 439

How big is a Google?

Dec 18, 2003

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"We liked doing big things, and googol [the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros] is a huge number." Larry Page, cofounder with Sergey Brin, of GoogleFor the record, the googol is: 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000…

Recognition

Dec 16, 2003

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.Mark Twain

Notable

Dec 16, 2003

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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall".Eleanor RooseveltThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the…

Mental Gymnastics

Dec 15, 2003

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now is all we have

Dec 12, 2003

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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.Bill Cosby

Where shall I begin?

Dec 11, 2003

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The white rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your majesty?""Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "And go on til you come to the end; then stop."Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland)