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Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Designers A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Designers
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Designers My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Designers
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Designers The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Designers
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Designers "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Designers
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Designers "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) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Designers
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney 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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Designers I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Designers
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Designers Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Designers
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Designers A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Designers
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Designers Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Designers
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Designers Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Designers
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Designers "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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