Brooklyns Corner Quotes

#1. Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

Robert Fortune

#2. There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Emil Cioran

#3. The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Edsger Dijkstra

#4. Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

Juan Enriquez

#5. The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.

Graham Greene

#6. I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Buck Leonard

#7. I think a New Guard-type of Republican - Eric Cantor is a rising star in the party.

Andrea Tantaros

#8. The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

Richard A. Falk

#9. What is it about ignorance that breeds fear? Or is it the other way around?

CJ Birch

#10. Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

Stephen Richards