Quotes

To be turned out by the Pimp of the White House

-Congressman Kenneth Rayner on President Franklin Pierce

Bastard Brat of a Scotch Peddler

-John Adams on Alexander Hamilton

Hatchet-Faced Nutmeg Dealer

-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln

Ersatz

is a product or creation made or used as a stand in substitute, typically inferior, for something else. Tiki Drinks, Non-dairy Creamer, Bouillon Cubes, & War Sausage.

Sometimes Science is a lot more Art than Science. A Lot of people don’t get that.

-Rick Sanchez C-137

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste… an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.

-Rahm Emanuel

The most important men in town would come to fawn on me! They would ask me to advise them, ….Posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes! And it won’t make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong. When you’re rich, they think you really know!

– Sheldon Harnick

Zugzwang

Zugzwang

is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move. The fact that the player is compelled to move means that their position will become significantly weaker.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

-Paul Valéry

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

-Paul Valéry

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts

-Richard Feynman

Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.

-Lord Acton

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

-David Brinkley