"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Pag "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Pag
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Pag "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Pag
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Pag There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Pag
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Pag It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Pag
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Pag "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Pag
Man and wife make one fool. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Pag "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Pag
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Pag The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Pag
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Pag There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Pag
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Pag "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Pag
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Pag There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Pag
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Pag the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Pag
