Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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Albert Einstein quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

“Love is a better master than duty.”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

A little back story. In 2009, Ronald Ball says he bought a can of Mountain Dew from a vending machine at work. The soda made him violently ill, and he began throwing up he claims. He poured the soda in a styrofoam cup, and, well, there was a mouse. Or so he says.

And then, purported subterfuge!

Ball also is claiming that when he called a telephone number on the can of soda to complain about the incident, they sent an adjuster to retrieve the mouse, but the company would not return the mouse until it had decomposed, ruling out additional testing by the plaintiff.

So that happened. Or didn’t. Who really knows? But now the case has made its way to court. And while this might be just another run-of-the-mill vermin in the food story otherwise, a tidbit from trial makes the case worth catching up on.

Pepsi has moved to dismiss the case, according to the Madison St. Clair Record. Why, you ask? It cited expert testimony that the mouse would have dissolved in the soda before Ball ever had the chance to drink it.

Wait, so, is Pepsi’s defense basically that you’d never know if there was a mouse in your soda? Kind of.

Pepsi’s expert says the mouse would have become a “jelly like” substance long before Ball ever popped the top.

That’s not mouse. It’s just mouse jelly. Which also sounds delicious! Let’s all drink a soda.

[Madison St Clair Record via Brendan Koerner] Thanks to: http://pulse.me/s/4BPIZ

I wrote a little app for the iPhone last Christmas called “Send a text from Santa”. I had been doing some work for a client which involved sending emails and texts to users and re-used some of the acquired knowledge to put up this little app to send a jolly Christmas message from “Santa” or “Rudolph”. I sent it off to the Apple people to be approved and got back a very sniffy rejection saying that it could be used for sending anonymous messages (“sometimes called spoofing”) and implying that I was opening the gates of iPhonedom to hatemail and general digital anarchy.

Now any kid in his bedroom who has read a programming manual knows you can send an email from any email address to any other – it takes only one line of code. To try to pretend that they can save the world from this kind of abuse by stopping kids getting a text message from Father Christmas is about as bright as saying that we will ban handguns in the UK – it just means that the criminals know they are the only ones with a gun in their pocket.

So (and you may glean from this I was annoyed) I decided to take back the power for the people. And here is it – Ghostwriter (www.ghostwriterapp.com) allows you , dear reader, to send an email or text message from anyone to anyone.  There are no rules and no limits – if you want to send a message from your boss to your co-worker or your headmaster to your form teacher you can, and nobody can distinguish it from the real thing.  Surely if this kind of thing is possible we should understand it and be on the lookout for it, not banned from seeing it so just the bad guys and Nigerian lottery agents can use it…