Imenco - Subsea engineering services and equipment.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Haugesund Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Haugesund
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Haugesund When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Haugesund
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Haugesund "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Haugesund
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Haugesund He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Haugesund
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Haugesund In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Haugesund
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Haugesund An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Haugesund
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Haugesund I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Haugesund
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Haugesund My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Haugesund
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Haugesund My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Haugesund
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Haugesund Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Haugesund
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! 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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Haugesund Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Haugesund
