Dean Summers > Dean's Quotes

“When the cart doesn't move, do you goad the cart or the ox?”
― Nanyue Huairang

“The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet--”
― Issa Kobayashi, The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice Through The Looking Glass

“From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”
― Seneca, Medea

“Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.”
― Voltaire, Candide