From Bill Burke's Home Page (a small memorial to the late physicist William Burke), a few proverbs:

• "Computing is full of second-rate physicists." - R. W. Hamming, quoted by P. J. Plauger
• "Hands down, man's best friend is the goose." - WLB
• "The most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade." - R. P. Feynman
• "The early worm gets the bird." - WLB
• "Go is to chess as philosophy is to double entry bookkeeping." - Shibumi
• "Man must sit with mouth open for a very long time before roast duck flies in." - Chinese Proverb
• "If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." - John Archibald Wheeler

("WLB" is Bill himself; cf. BillBurke (2002-04-26), ...) - ^z - 2014-04-11