Thoughts
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Face the future with optimism. I believe we are standing on the threshold of a new era of growth, prosperity, and abundance. Barring a calamity or unexpected international crisis, I think the next few years will bring a resurgence in the economy as new discoveries are made in communication, medicine, energy, transportation, physics, computer technology, and other fields of endeavor.
Many of these discoveries, as in the past, will be the result of the Spirit whispering insights into and enlightening the minds of truth-seeking individuals. Many of these discoveries will be made for the purpose of helping to bring to pass the purposes and work of God and the quickening of the building of His kingdom on earth today. With these discoveries and advances will come new employment opportunities and prosperity for those who work hard and especially to those who strive to keep the commandments of God. This has been the case in other significant periods of national and international economic growth.
--Elder M. Russell Ballard
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
--Leonardo da Vinci.
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From the known to the unknown, from the simple to the complex, one step at a time.
--De Nevers (from an unknown someone else).
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If you can't solve your problem, solve an easier problem first.
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Don't sweat the small stuff (and its all small stuff)
--Robert Eliot
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
--Mark Twain
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best medicine for despair is service.
The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.
--Gordon B. Hinckley
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Life
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh, but the moans come double;
And that is life.
A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter;
And that is life.
--Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
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To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories:
(1) things that need to be
fixed, and,
(2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
--Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
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I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are
two matters on which I hope for enlightenment
One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the
Turbulent motion of fluids.
About the former I am rather optimistic.
--Attr. to Horace Lamb