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"Quote
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"A
witty saying proves nothing."
Voltaire
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.
A
sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. "
Clive James
"If
A equals success, then the formula
(for success) is A equals X plus Y and Z,
with X
being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
Your
vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
"When we
remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
stands explained."
Mark Twain
"Opportunity
is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work."
Thomas Alva Edison
"We should
take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
" One of the greatest pains for human
beings is the pain of a new idea."
lter Bagehot, Physics and Politics, 1879
"Opportunity
dances with those already on the dance floor."
M. Jackson Brown, Jr., A Hero In Every Heart
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed
himself a bit of fun and
relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without
knowing it. "
Herodotus,
600BC
"Only two things
are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
"During
his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E.
Stevenson
"Senator, you have the vote of every thinking
person!"
Stevenson called back "That's not enough, madam, we
need a majority!"
"Hell,
there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish
something."
Thomas A. Edison
"To
succeed in life, it is not enough to be stupid,
you must also be well mannered."
Voltaire
"When I
examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion
that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"I
went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast any
time."
So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
Stephen
Wright
"Therefore
those skilled at the unorthodox are infinite as heaven and earth,
inexhaustible as the great rivers. When they come to an end, they
begin again,
like the days and months; they die and are reborn,
like the four seasons."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Applicants must also have extensive
knowledge of Unix, although they should
have sufficiently good
programming taste to not consider this an achievement."
Hal Abelson,
MIT job advertisement
"Nothing
endures but change."
Heraclitus, 600 B.C.
"Only
the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."
Confucius, 600 B.C.
"When
you blame others, you give up your power to change."
Dr. Robert Anthony
"To
improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill
"Change
only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer."
the Dalai Lama
"If
there is anything we wish to change in a child, we should first examine
it
and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in
ourselves."
Carl Jung
"Stupidity has a certain charm -- ignorance does not."
Frank Zappa
"The
used key is always bright."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richards
Almanac, July 1744
"An
empty bag cannot stand upright"
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richards
Almanac, Jan. 1740
"A cat in
gloves catches no mice."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richards Almanac, Feb. 17
"The
grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed,
by all
who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature."
Benjamin Franklin, 1765, to the editor of a London
newspaper,
intended to chaff the English for their ignorance of
America.
"A
man often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
Joan de Arc
"Fall
not into the fire to avoid smoke."
Turkish proverb
"A
'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
'Yes'
merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
Mahatma Ghandi
"There is
no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of
others."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"A man's
friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
Charles Darwin
"For
your convenience, we recommend courteous efficient self-service."
in an Hong Kong supermarket, S.P.I.C.E.
"If
you want good service, serve yourself."
Spanish saying
"A
service not asked for, neither God nor man is thankful for."
Irish Proverb
"Start
each day with a smile and get it over with."
WC Fields
Two things help to keep
one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way.
Second,
let him have it.
Sam Ewing
"I
generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
Mae West
"The concept is
interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,'
the idea must be feasible."
A Yale
University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing
reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp)
"If you have built
castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be.
Now put foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau
"When I was young,
I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.
So I did
ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw
"Anyone who can
walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capone
"Give me the luxuries of life, and I will willingly do without the
necessities."
Frank Lloyd Wright, obit.
"An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see
of its behind."
Saint Bonaventure
"Computers are worthless. They can only
give you answers."
Pablo Picasso
"Men work together, whether they work together or apart."
Robert Frost
"Your work is to discover your world and then, with all your heart,
give yourself to it."
Buddha
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one"
Abbot Joseph Liebling, New Yorker magazine, 1960
"For one human
being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our
tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all
other work is but preparation."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that
a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
"
Eva Hoffman, Exit into History
"The Universe has an incredibly sadistic sense of humor.
And I, for one, enjoy watching the
poor fools who just don't get the joke. "
Lynn Marshall
"There's so much
comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate
"Seeing a murder on
television can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
"It is difficult
to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing
when
every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits
singing about toilet paper."
R. Serling
"This Windows 95
hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use,
so hard to
configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure.
Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it
will keep
your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running
and trying to figure out how to use it."
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems
"DOS Computers
manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy,
and millions of
others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines
in
use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that
cockroaches are
far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do
not denote a higher life form."
New York Times, November 26,
1991
"Windows 95: n.
32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an
8 bit
operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
written by
a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
(contributed by Marcel Wolf)
"Hard
work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some
turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
"Only
a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the
wind;
the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward, Risk
"The
release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...
The solution to this problem lies in the heart of
mankind.
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
Albert Einstien.
"God bless us everyone!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"For every
complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and
wrong."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Bad officials are
elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan
"One, with God, is
always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake
while the votes were being counted."
Thomas B. Reed
"I
am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
W. C. Fields
"In
America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you
take."
"Mothers
all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Ninety-eight
percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working
Americans.
It's the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But
then, we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin
"Press on;
nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
The longer
the letter, the less chance of its being read.
Forde's Third Law:
I have
made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it
shorter.
Blaise Pascal
I didn't
attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
Remember that
you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is
accept
it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills
you to overflowing,
then reach out and give it away.
Kent Nurburn Letters To My Son, Falling In Love,
"Far
better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure...
than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much,
because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor
defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I count
him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is the victory over self."
Aristotle
"How
many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
Abraham Lincoln
"If you
pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
"Diplomacy
is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a
rock."
Will Rogers
"Outside
of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
"It's
not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the
size of the fight in the dog that matters."
Archie Griffen
"Don't
keep a dog and bark yourself."
English Proverb
I have no
trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight.
But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're
the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
President Warren G. Harding
There's no
doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my
friends.
Walt Whitman
Good friends,
good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Some people
have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they
like.
George Santayana
Don't walk in
front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
A true friend
stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Hardware is
the part of a computer that can be kicked,
if all you can do is swear at it, then it must be software.
Anon.
Remember,
even a kick in the ass is a step forward.
Willie Heath
Strange as it
seems, my life is based on a true story.
Ashleigh Brilliant
What a
wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
Life is a
tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyère
We all
enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming,
soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing
doesn't have to stop there.
Dana Gould
It is not
true that life is one damn thing after another -
It's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent
Millay
"When I
examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the
gift
of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive
knowledge."
Albert Einstien
You may be
disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
Doom should
be an olympic sport.
Dave Goldberger
"I
generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
"A
man often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
Joan de Arc
"Fall
not into the fire to avoid smoke."
Turkish proverb
"A
'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes'
merely uttered to
please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
"There
is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of
others."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"For
your convenience, we recommend courteous efficient self-service."
in an Hong Kong
supermarket, S.P.I.C.E.
"If you
want good service, serve yourself."
"A
service not asked for, neither God nor man is thankful for."
Irish Proverb
"Start
each day with a smile and get it over with."
WC Fields
Two things
help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own
way.
Second, let him have it.
Sam Ewing
"The
concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a
'C,'
the idea must be feasible."
A Yale University
management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable
overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp)
"If you
have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where
they should be.
Now put foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau
"When I
was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.
So I did ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw
"Anyone
who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
Al Capone
"For one
human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our
tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but
preparation."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Common
sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different
speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. "
Clive James
"There's
nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human
being
is ticking inside a strange face. "
Eva Hoffman, Exit
into History
"The
Universe has an incredibly sadistic sense of humor. And I, for one,
enjoy
watching the poor fools who just don't get the joke. "
Lynn Marshall
"There's
so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate
"Seeing
a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
"It
is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and
probing
when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits
singing about toilet paper."
R. Serling
"Youth
looks forward but age looks back."
English Proverb
"For
youth, the length of a summer evening is inversely proportionate
to the number of children playing in the block."
Tarne's Truism
"It
is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege
of youth not to listen.
Both avail themselves of their
privileges and the world rocks along."
D. Sutten
"God
made the world and He saw that it was good.
Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good."
Mary Doria Russell Children of God
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When a
distinguished, but elderly scientist states that something is
possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he states that
something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
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The only way to
discover the limits of the possible
is to look beyond them
into the impossible.
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Any sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's Laws
Twenty years
from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
Deeds
cannot dream what dreams can do.
E.E. Cummings
"The
application finished with the following error:
The operation was completed successfully."
Microsoft
Exchange
"No distance
of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who
are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
Robert Southey
"Expecting
the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like
expecting the
bull not to charge because you are a
vegetarian."
Dennis
Wholey
"A
cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar
Wilde
"Don't
bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself."
William
Faulkner
"One
is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and
invisible labor.
To contemplate is to toil. To think is to
do."
Victor Hugo
"I
know you understand what you think I said,
but I'm not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what
I meant."
Richard
Nixon
"A great
many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices."
William
James
"Many
people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
Bertrand
Russell
"What's
the difference between IBM and Jurassic Park?
One is a theme park full of
ancient mechanical monsters that scare its
customers; the other is a movie."
Enterprise
Systems Journal
"There
is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
Ken Olson,
President of World Future Society Convention, 1977
"Insofar
as the laws of mathematics are certain, they do not refer to
reality;
and insofar as they refer to reality, they are not
certain."
Albert Einstein
"You
would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by
lighting
a bon-fire under her deck... I have no time for such
nonsense"
Napoleon, commenting on Fulton's Steamship
"The
difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make
sense."
Tom Clancy, Larry King Live, CNN
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is
nothing in its nature to produce
happiness. The more a man has,
the more he wants.
Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes
one."
Benjamin Franklin
"The most effective way to achieve right relations with any
living thing is to look for
the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression."
Allen J. Boone American Author
"Human
felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune
that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only
handle the money.
It is the customer who pays the
wages."
Henry Ford
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
Abraham Linclon
"Computer
Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
telescopes."
E. W. Dijkstra:
"Be bold. If
you're going to make an error, make a doozy,
and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
--
Billie Jean King
"The
fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
fundamental emotion
which stands at the cradle of true art and
true science."
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1934
"Only
by unlearning comes Wisdom"
James Russell Lowell, The Parting of the Ways, 1849
"In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to
be kind enough."
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1688-1763
"
In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing,
and believe in what you are doing."
Will Rogers
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson
Modesty is the art of encouraging other people to find out for themselves how
wonderful you are.
Anon.
The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn.
Alvin Toffler
"If the automobile had followed the
same development as the computer,
a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a
million miles per gallon, and explode once a year
killing everyone inside."
Robert Cringely/InfoWorld
"The most likely way for the world to be
destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause
accidents."
Nathaniel Borenstein
"And the day came when the
risk it took to remain tight inside the bud, was more painful
than the risk it
took to blossom."
Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone."
"Ca plus c'est change, ca plus ca c'est le maime chose"
"The more things change, the more they remain the same."
"A society willing to sacrifice
freedom for security deserves neither."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The
only argument available with an
east wind is to put on your overcoat."
James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable
one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
"You're either part of the solution, or part of the problem."
Eldridge Cleaver, Speech, 1968
I believe 'credibility' is one of the
biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.
Jeff I. Richards
The Internet treats censorship as a
malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow
I don't care if people think I'm a
dumb blonde or stupid or an overage actress
or over the hill. I'm gonna have a very successful Internet company,
and I'm gonna have 100 million in the bank
and I don't give a sh- what anybody thinks.
Melanie Griffith
If your project doesn't work, look for
the part you didn't think was important.
Arthur Bloch
Men despise great projects when they
do not feel themselves
capable of great successes.
Luc de
Clapiers Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747)
Young men are fitter to invent than to
judge,
fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than
for settled business.
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
If we
could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires.
Abigail Van Baren
It's
pretty obvious that if there's anything the good ol' U.S. of A. excels
at, it's selling
and marketing all the crap this country produces. If so |