Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word database are typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use of both hands. It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears. (Anonymous)

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations. They think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little, altering this bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. (Robert Collier)

TABLE : An arrangement of words, numbers, or signs, or combinations of them, as in parallel columns, to exhibit a set of facts or relations in a definite, compact, and comprehensive form; a synopsis or scheme. (Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language)

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, Through the Looking Glass)

Pooh was sitting in his house one day, counting his pots of honey, when there came a knock on the door. “Fourteen,” said Pooh. “Come in. Fourteen. Or was it fifteen? Bother. That’s muddled me.” “Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit. “Hallo, Rabbit. Fourteen, wasn’t it?” “What was?” “My pots of honey what I was counting.” “Fourteen, that’s right.” “Are you sure?” “No,” said Rabbit. “Does it matter?” (A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner)

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men could not put Humpty together again. (Old nursery rhyme)

For ‘Is’ and ‘Is-Not’ though with Rule and Line, and ‘Up-and-Down’ by Logic I define, of all that one should care to fathom, I was never deep in anything but - Wine. (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Traslated by Edward Fitzgerald)

The most valuable acquisitions in a scientific or technical education are the general-purpose mental tools which remain serviceable for a life-time. (George Forsythe, “What to do till the computer scientist comes”, 1968)

Two ideas lie gleaming on the jeweler’s velvet. The first is the calculus, the second, the algorithm. The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it gave rise made modern science possible; but it has been the algorithm that has made possible the modern world. (David Berlinski, The Advent of the Algorithm, 2000)

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you can not express it in numbers your knowledge is a meagre and unsatisfactory kind : it may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. (Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein, 1979-1955)

Science is as far removed from brute force as this sword from a crowbar. (Edward Lytton, 1803-1873, Leila, Book II, Chapter I)

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. (Robert Byrne, master pool and billiards player and writer)

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this - Great God, grant that twice two be not four. (Ivan Turgenev, 1818-1883, Russian novelist and short-story writer)

Plutarch says that Sertorius, in order to teach his soldiers that perseverance and wit are better than brute force, had two horses brought before them, and set two men to pull out their tails. One of the men was a burly Hercules, who tugged and tugged, but all to no purpose; the other was a sharp, weasel-faced tailor, who plucked one hair at a time, amidst roars of laughter, and soon left the tail quite bare. (E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898)

That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another. (Charles M. Schulz, 1922-2000, American cartoonist, the creator of Peanuts)

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter less. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832)

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. (Max Born, 1882-1970, My Life and My Views, 1968)

" Fallen Tears "

Has Life changed when two hearts said good-bye.

Not long ago, but some days have past by.

Feelings once shared, has left memories of pain,

Love washed away from tears that have fallen like rain.

When many years go by, will those visions be there,

With all that Love shared and feelings with care.

Will pain be gone, replacing it with Love,

With true feelings once shared from heavens above.

No one knows what the future will see,

Fallen Tears from love or pain will there be.

Remove the memories of pain with time as you go,

Remember only tears of love and happiness will grow.

" Remember Friend "

Remember when, all love we shared,

Loving days and nights of love we cared.

Remember when, all times were fun,

Loving times our hearts were one.

Remember when, we couldn't part,

The tears of love came from the heart.

Remember when, love seem so right,

Embracing love under stars so bright.

Remember when, you said good-bye,

The tears of love, my heart did cry.

Remember friend; a broken heart will seek,

New special love, someday I'll meet.

" Missing Love "

Feeling love, when love has gone,

Lonely nights, with love filled songs.

An empty heart, where love should be,

Loving memories with dreams to see.

Missing pictures, leaving empty frames,

Love letters, with missing names.

In your heart, missing love brings tears,

A new beginning brings many fears.

From missing love, new life is there,

Memories and dreams, new love you'll share.

" Those Days"

Remembering the days with Love, you could feel,

Special days and nights that still seems so real.

Sharing life with someone you know,

Bonding of hearts, each day seem to grow.

With eternal feelings shared, you would find,

Love and dreams, within your heart at that time.

From essence of love with words, it would say,

I love you; I love you in so many ways.

Sharing days of love from now and the past,

The desire of love in your heart that would last.

Those days so special, we shared from the start,

Made all life complete, from love in our hearts.

"Love or Friendship"

Love or friendship, are they the same,

Two words a like, but different name.

Look upon the past to be,

With-in your future your heart will see.

Was it true love you will find,

Or needed friendship with-in your mind.

If it were love, you still would care,

If only friendship, you still would share.

If you walk away from both, you will see,

An empty heart of loneliness there will be.

I searched with-in my heart to find

Both love and friendship makes life divine.