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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Operating Systems It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Operating Systems
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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.) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Operating Systems When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Operating Systems
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Operating Systems Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Operating Systems
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things 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 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Operating Systems Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Operating Systems
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Operating Systems Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Operating Systems
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Operating Systems Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Operating Systems
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Operating Systems "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Operating Systems
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Operating Systems Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Operating Systems
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Operating Systems I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Operating Systems
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Operating Systems There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Operating Systems
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Operating Systems Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Operating Systems
