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Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Barkway "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) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Barkway
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Barkway I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. 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' Barkway
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Barkway A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Barkway
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Barkway "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Barkway
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Barkway All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Barkway
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Barkway cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Barkway
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Barkway Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Barkway
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Barkway It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Barkway
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Barkway Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Barkway
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Barkway We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Barkway
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Barkway This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 student Fred Smith's paper prop Barkway
