504 Quotes About Joke

  • Author Kevin Sylvester
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    No time for jokes," Nakamura said. "Is Neil there?""Let's just say I'm Sleeping Beauty's personal assistant right now.""I guess that makes you Waking Ugly?""I thought you said this was no time for jokes. That was a joke, right?

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  • Author Gian-Carlo Rota
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    Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!

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  • Author Julian Huxley
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    I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which wasn't there. ‘That may be,’ said the philosopher, ‘but a theologian would have found it.

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