Some Nice Quotes
Schopenhauer in "On Authorship and Style"
It is absolutely impossible for men of ordinary intelligence to make up their minds to write as they think; they resent the idea of their work looking too simple. it would always be of some value, however, if they would only go honestly to work and in a simple way express the few and ordinary ideas they have really thought. But instead they try to appear to have thought much more deeply than is the case. the result is, they put what they have to say into forced and involved language, create new words and prolix periods which go round the thought and cover it up. They hesitate between the two attempts of communicating the thought and of concealing it. They want to make it look grand so that it has the appearance of being learned and profound, thereby giving one the idea that there is much more in it than once perceives at the moment.
How learned many a man would be if he knew everything that was in his own books! - Guys from CS IITM should find this funny :)
Fundaes of life:
Happiness is the longing for repitition - Milan Kundera
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine - Milan Kundera
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
In the end it's all nice - Requiem for a dream
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative - Wilde
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it - Thoreau
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification - Calvin