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Five Year Anniversary [Permalink]
Wow, five years of blogging today. Who would have thought i'd have stuck with it this long? I was going to write something witty and clever about the reasons people blog and how it has changed the world, etc..etc.., but i'm sure you can all figure that out for yourselves. So i thought it would be fun to quote someone much more interesting than myself: Stephen Hawking. Here are 10 famous quotes by him:
  • "Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."
  • "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
  • "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
  • "I find that American & Scandinavian accents work better with women." In response to a question about the American accent of his synthesiser.
  • "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
  • "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
  • "To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen."
  • "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
  • "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."
  • "Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."
Source: thelandsalmon.com
Posted by shawker on Wednesday, 23 January 2008
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Comment by Luann at Wed, 23 Jan 7:19 PM
Wow! 5 years really? That's cool.

The last quote is my favorite. :)
Comment by Brenda at Wed, 23 Jan 9:10 PM
I like the predestined looking before they cross the road... :)
Comment by Bonnie at Thu, 24 Jan 3:03 PM
Am I the only one who's dying to hear the Scandinavian accent on his synthesizer?
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