Quotes

[orbsycli]

Originally Posted by Turtle

___Faced with the opportunity of a student in a class, always sit in front; this way the beauty & intelligence of the other students does not distract you & you may focus your full attention on the ugly stupid teacher.
___Faced with the opportunity of instructing a class, seat your students in a circle so you only look relatively stupid and ugly. - Turtle -

"i accell in both content and deliverance, so let's put on our classics and have a little dance, shall we?"

[infamous]

Where there are no absolutes, logic suffers.....................infamous

[Turtle]

The quick wit is the writer's art, the sharp wit the writer's craft. - Turtle George

[infamous]

When one finds themselves lost on the road of life, if they can remember the path that lead them there, they can find their way back...............infamous

[infamous]

Complaining about a problem one can fix themselves is misdirected effort of the highhest order........................infamous

[Turtle]

For any equal volume, the deep narrow sea has a fractional dimension higher than the broad shallow sea. The former is abrupt & loud, the latter slow & quiet - Turtle George

[Dark Mind]

If all things were possible... nothing would be certain. --Uncle Martin's signature

I found two paradoxes within this statement, can you find them ?

[OpenMind5]

I mentioned this quote in my thread suggesting we start a quote of the week.

"Time is money...and I have nether."

Op5

[infamous]

Originally Posted by Dark Mind

If all things were possible... nothing would be certain. --Uncle Martin's signature

I found two paradoxes within this statement, can you find them ?

I've never been very good at puzzels but I'll take a stab at it anyway.

If...............be certain
all things....nothing

How did I do Dark Mind?

[Dark Mind]

That's actually pretty good . It's not what I had in mind though...

1. How can nothing be certain when you know everything is possible?

2. If everything were possible, then knowing the uncertain would be possible. Meaning everything would be certain. Yet at the same time everything could be uncertain ... Hey, everything's possible