Cool Sayings

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They
are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
-Hubert H. Humphrey

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you
think."
-Horace

"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity."
-Proverb

"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
-Seneca

"Life is a sum of all your choices."
-Albert Camus

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
-Anais Nin

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in
everything."
-William Shakespeare

Nokia Acquires Symbian; Takes on Google's Android

Nokia isn't finished with its acquisition spree just yet. Tonight the Finnish company announced a plan to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn't already own and make the platform open source. Nokia clearly aims to challenge Android, the open source mobile operating system of Google. Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says that it wants to create "the most attractive platform for mobile innovation and drive the development of new and compelling web-enabled applications".

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"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
-William Osler

"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."
-Jonathan Swift

" I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree."
-Pee Wee Herman

" Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college."
-Alvy Singer, Annie Hall

"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... 'til you climb inside of his skin and walk
around in it."
-Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is
strength undefeatable."
-Helen Keller

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
-Danny Kaye

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
-Marcus Aurelius

"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves
to have it."
-Richard Bach