Winter Holidays and a collection of quotes

Dear all,

I apologize for this break in posting but the winter holidays and my applications to the PhD are taking their toll.

For now, a circle of savants at the OilDrum have composed a long thread composed of single all-defining quotes from different points of view, some humorous some grave but all fascinating.

Some samples with the kudos to the authors

"....iclimbrock on December 27, 2006 - 4:00pm
My favorite quote of the year
goes to Westexas sometime last week when he finally couldn't take it
anymore:
What part of the impossibility of an exponential growth rate in a
finite world do you people not understand?
Sums it up very well!..."

"... gbenzon on December 27, 2006 - 11:47am
Someone already mentioned
my favorite by T.S. Elliot, so here are a few of my runners-up:
Einstein:
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
H.L. Mencken: An
idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage,
concludes that it will also make better soup.
Arthur Schopenhauer: Every man
takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world...."

Happy New Year to everybody! And a bright future and a clear past to all the people on this globe.