There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "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) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) 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 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Society and Culture Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Society and Culture This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Society and Culture
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Society and Culture The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey 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 Society and Culture "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "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) Society and Culture Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture
