Quote? What is your favorite quote?

[Bravo52]

As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.

Our business now is north.

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins - Eve of Battle speech given to the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment Battle Group prior to ascending into Iraq.

 

[jqavins]

Well that’s not true, remember the V2 or V1?

Which built on, and corrupted, earlier work on rocketry and jet propulsion.

 

[NTP2]

Which built on, and corrupted, earlier work on rocketry and jet propulsion.

I’m not aware of any control systems, those were invented specifically for the V1 and V2. The gyroscopes and all the.

Ps there was a little bit of work during WW1 but that wasn’t autonomous. It was basically a big RC plane.

 

[Antares JS]

I’m not aware of any control systems, those were invented specifically for the V1 and V2. The gyroscopes and all the.

Robert Goddard did that first.

 

[NTP2]

Robert Goddard did that first.

Really? He could get them to go from A to B?

 

[Antares JS]

Really? He could get them to go from A to B?

I don't know if he ever tried to land them in a specific place, but Goddard was the first to stabilize a rocket with a gyro.

 

[NTP2]

I don't know if he ever tried to land them in a specific place, but Goddard was the first to stabilize a rocket with a gyro.

Well that’s pretty easy, that is what gyros do, I meant that the V1 was the first autonomous weapon. I think that he could have done what the Germans did but the US military had little or no interest in his work.

 

[kuririn]

 

[kuririn]

 

[cwbullet]

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Me like it. I would expect nothing less from the writer of “As I lay dying”.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[KenECoyote]

I love animals...especially with the right gravy!

 

[Peartree]

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.” - Hugh Keough

 

[kuririn]

From Trust The Science.

 

[kuririn]

 

[cwbullet]

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Only if the information is valid. If not, you are just wishy washy.

 

[cwbullet]

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."​

ROBERT QUILLEN​

 

[kuririn]

Only if the information is valid. If not, you are just wishy washy.

Absolutely.
It's similar to "Keep an open mind".
Difference between open minded and wishy washy is the application of critical thinking.

Anyhoo, this thread reminds me of something humorous I saw many years ago.
I don't have the actual piece so I'll have to paraphrase from memory.

As for quotes, it's true that
A stitch in time saves nine.
BUT.....
Haste makes waste.

A penny saved is a penny earned
BUT
You can't take it with you.

Clothes make the man
BUT
You can't judge a book by its' cover.

Laters.

 

[kuririn]

 

[kuririn]

 

[cwbullet]

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."​

AUDREY HEPBURN​

 

[Antares JS]

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

-John Adams

 

[kuririn]

 

[cwbullet]

"The home is the chief school of human virtues."​

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING​

 

[kuririn]

An eye for an eye will soon make the whole world blind.

(Often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but no citations can be found).

 

[kuririn]

 

[jqavins]

An eye for an eye will soon make the whole world blind.

(Often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but no citations can be found).

I've heard that quoted in two songs by John McCutcheon, once as "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind," and again as "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world hungry and blind."

Quote Investigator, which I just now went and read, because I too thought it came from Gandhi, suggests that it may have come from Gandhi's biographer, Louis Fischer:

Fischer, used a version of the expression when he wrote about Gandhi’s approach to conflict. However, Fischer did not attribute the saying to Gandhi in his description of the leader’s life. Instead, Fischer used the expression himself as part of his explanation of Gandhi’s philosophy. QI thinks some readers may have been confused and may have decided to directly attribute the saying to Gandhi based on a misreading of Fischer’s works.

On the other hand, QI also states:

The Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence states that the Gandhi family believes it is an authentic Gandhi quotation, but no example of its use by the Indian leader has ever been discovered.

In short, the origin is unclear.

(I like McCutcheon's versions.)