Arjendu K. Pattanayak: Sig

FALL '98

!sgub evah t'nod scaM ? sgub naem ayaddahW

Bored and in a low-paying job ? Make easy money as a quantum mechanic!

Studying non-linear dynamics is like studying non-elephant biology. -- Stanislaw Ulam

The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact. -- Kurt Godel

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the
heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. - Paul Tillich

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the
languages we use for their expression. -- Eugene Wigner

SPRING '99

Entropy isn't what it used to be. -- Rudolf Clausius (not quite)

I do not pretend to understand the Universe -- it is considerably larger
than I am. -- Thomas Carlyle

Third Law of families: To every action there is an equal and opposite
criticism.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

The irony of life is that it is lived forward but understood backward.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of those whom you admire; seek what
they sought -- Matsuo Basho

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how
valuable we are.  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you shut the door to all errors, you shut the door to truth. -- Tagore

Another day over. Objectives fulfilled. Deadlines met. Pigs fed and
ready for take off. -- Author Unknown

FALL '99

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is
capable of producing himself. -- Andre Gide

Swallow all your learning in the morning, but digest it in company in
the evenings. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Be the change you wish to see in the world -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person
who cannot read them. -Mark Twain

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.- Bumper sticker

A society grows great when people plant trees in whose shade they know
they shall never sit. -- Greek proverb

If I am not for myself then who will be ? If I am only for myself and
 not others, then what am I ? If not now, then when ? -- Rabbi Hillel

Quantum mechanics is the dreams stuff is made of. -- Graffiti

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human
being.--May Sarton

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that
here and there. -- Richard Feynman

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.-- W.Somerset
Maugham

SPRING '00

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter.  --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

One must have chaos within to give birth to a dancing star. -- F. Nietzsche

To err is human. To really screw things up takes a human and a
computer.  -- Murphy's Law of Computing

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of
greatest astonishment. -- Albert Einstein

My choices are either to admit ignorance, or to remain ignorant.
I choose the former. -- Author unknown to me

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears,
however measured or far away. - Henry D. Thoreau

One doesn't discover new land without consenting to lose sight of the
shore for a very long time.  Andre Gide

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage
to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -- R. Niebuhr

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the
door will be opened to you. Matt. 7:7 NIV

Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and the
door shall be opened to you. Matt. 7:7 KJV

I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man.- Thomas Jefferson, September 23, 1800

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, _Wisdom of the Sands_

Life is like a game of cards.  The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will.  -Jawaharlal Nehru

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.  - Charles Darwin

SUMMER '00

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us, or we find it not. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine
o'clock every morning. --Peter DeVries

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and
original in your work. -- Gustave Flaubert

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus

`If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is 
where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them.'  -H.D. Thoreau

`All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed.
 No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' -- Samuel Beckett

`And do we not destroy our enemies when we make them our friends?' --Lincoln

`Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.' -- A.Gide

OCTOBER '00

'God bless'-- KCP.

'Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.'-- Lennon

'Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but to carry on.' --CSN
In memoriam Kishore Chandra Pattanayak (23rd Jan 1931 -- 2nd Nov 2000)

SPRING '01

'Happiness isn't good enough for me. I demand euphoria!'-- Calvin (+Hobbes)

'The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline 
of wonder.' -Ralph W. Sockman (attr).

'My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent: 
I shall attack!' -- Marshall Foch (probably apocryphal).

`There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.  
It is the ability to recognize ability.' -- Elbert Hubbard

`The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your 
riches, but to reveal to him his own.' -- Benjamin Disraeli

`Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood. 
Make big plans: aim high in hope and work.' -- D.H. Burnham

'I think the next century will be the century of complexity.' --Stephen Hawking

'Gallons per day by which US oil consumption would drop if the average 
fuel efficiency of SUVs increased by 3 mpg: 49,000,000 -- Sierra Club
Gallons per day that the proposed Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 
is projected to yield: 42,000,000 -The White House' (Harper's Index)

'This is the way the world ends; This is the way the world ends; 
This is the way the world ends; Not with a bang but a whimper.' -Eliot 

Anyone can become angry -- that's easy. But to be angry with the right
person, to the right degreee, at the right time, for the right purpose,
and in the right way -- this is not easy.' -- Aristotle

'Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.' 
-- Norman Vincent Peale

`If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of
success or fame, God has called him.' -- R. L. Stevenson

'I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.' -- Shakespeare (Richard II)

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement
are matters of long range.-- Goethe.

`So long, and thanks for all the fish.' -- Douglas Adams 1952-2001

`Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions.'  - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 'What is truth then ? A mobile army of metaphors ..' -- F. Nietzsche

SUMMER '01

`What you do not expect happens more frequently than what you do.' -- Platuis

'I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about
today, staying in tune.'  --John Lee Hooker (RIP)

`'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, 
I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat, and a gun.
I put them on and went out of the room.' -- Raymond Chandler

'Men are unhappy when they do not know that they are happy.' --
Kirillov, character in Dostoevsky's 'The Posessed'.       

'Where we come from in America no longer signifies.  It's where
we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.'
--Joyce Carol Oates

'If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you
are rich.' -- Su Shi

'You never really leave a place you love. Part of it you take with you,
leaving part of you behind.'  --unknown

'He who considers too much will perform little.' --- Schiller

'We cannot do everything at one, but we can do something at once.'
-- Calvin Coolidge

FALL '01

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are
eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a
new way of looking at things. --Henry Miller

'Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.'

'When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever
cause.' -- Ronald Reagan (1980s)
 
'Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away.' -- M K Gandhi

'Let right be done.' 'It's easy to do justice. Very hard to do right.'
The Winslow Boy (Terrence Ratigan) 

'The only thing needed henceforward is to inflame the civic temper as
 part history has inflamed the military temper.' 
 -- William James, The moral equivalent of war

`My country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right; and if wrong,
to be set right.' -- Carl Schurz, American soldier and statesman, 1872

'As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.' --
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Sept 2001
'Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes' -- M. Kuhn

`[Alice] generally gave herself very good advice,(though she very
seldom followed it) ..' -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

`A society that will trade a little liberty for a little
order will lose both, and deserve neither.' -- Thomas Jefferson

`There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is
only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board
without examination.' -- Daniel C. Dennett

`We think in generalities, but we live in details.' -- Alfred North
Whitehead

"Those who consider themselves too superior to engage in politics are
punished by being governed by those who are their inferiors." --Plato

'Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is
 perilous.' -- Confucius (551-479 BC), The Confucian Analects

`We wear the chains we forge in life.' --Charles Dickens (adapted)

'The only people who claim that money is not important are
people who have enough money so that they are relieved of
the ugly burden of thinking about it.'--Joyce Carol Oates

There is one elementary truth ..the moment one definitely commits
oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help
one that never other otherwise would have occurred . . . Whatever you
can do,Or dream you can do, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. Begin it now.' -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'Onward through the fog!' -- Oat Willie's, bumper sticker, Austin, TX

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a
sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the
dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve
equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a
computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein

`[S]pring is not so much a season of riot and exuberance, fresh hopes and 
renewed vitality, as a vision of such sweet and tender loveliness that 
the heart stands still in contemplation . . .and the old unrest of the 
soul is put to sleep.' -- William Warlock
RANDOM SUBSET SINCE

'Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus
make yourself indispensible.' -Andre Gide

'I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has
had to overcome while trying to succeed.' -- Booker T. Washington 

`Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and 
nothing stays fixed.' -- Heraclitus

"A previous girlfriend of mine switched to emacs.  Needless to say, the
relationship went nowhere." Geoffrey Mann, VIM user 

"The original board game Trivial Pursuit listed Northfield as the only
college town with 2 colleges and 1 bar. This is no longer true. There
are now several bars in town. Whether that change and others signal a
lack of contentment remains an issue." -- Wikipedia 

"They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we
just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's
worked for over 200 years and heck, we don't seem to be using it
anymore." -- 'net grafitti 

"Colleges, Cows, Contentment ? 2 out of 3 isn't enough." 

`This is how liberty dies -- to thunderous applause.' -- Queen Amidala
(Padme)

"When Ella sings 'My man he's left me,' you think the guy went down the
street for a loaf of bread. But when Lady Day sings, you can see that
[..]he's got his bags packed and he ain't never coming back." -- Tony 
Scott 

'Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a
success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it
unswervingly.'  --Cecil B. de Mille 

'Can't put the rain back in the sky, Once it falls down'--Lucinda 

"I am going to make a promise to the Foreign Minister right now and that
is that I will even try to understand cricket." -- Condoleezza Rice,
getting it right re: Indo-Pak relations, in New Delhi 

"[..]Love is touching souls, Surely you touched mine, Cause part of you
pours out of me, In these lines from time to time;
Oh you are in my blood like holy wine, And you taste so bitter but you
taste so sweet, Oh I could drink a case of you .. and still be on my
feet." -- Joni (Blue)

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper." - Eden Philpotts 

'We all are lions, but lions on a banner/Because of the wind, rushing
onward from moment to moment.' -- Rumi 

'There are two rules on the path to anything: 1) Begin and 2) Continue.'

'Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as
body.' - Garry Moore 

'Dana, Sila, Bhavana.' 

'Non, rien de rien, non, je ne regrette rien!'-- Dumont/Vaucaire/Piaf 

"There isn't a clear task," Ed Witten told CNN. "If you are a researcher
you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the
answer is. You want to find the question that is sufficiently easy that
you might be able to answer it, and sufficiently hard that the answer is
interesting. You spend a lot of time thinking and you spend a lot of
time floundering around." -- 6/30/05

'Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus 
make yourself indispensible.'  -Andre Gide 

'There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But
it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We
used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them
economical numbers.' Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) 

'If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been
much of a day.'  - John A. Wheeler 

'Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten
your aim.'  - George Santayana

"We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by
exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage."
-- Aristotle

'May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; 
may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; 
may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.' 
--Karol Wojtyla, 04/11/04

'The ant has made himself illustrious\\ 
Through constant industry industrious\\
So what?\\ Would you be calm and placid\\
If you were full of formic acid?' -- Nash

"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway 

'Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning 
of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.' -- Norm Papernick 

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands 
hard things." - Herman Melville