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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Guides and Directories I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Guides and Directories Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Guides and Directories
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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 Guides and Directories
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Guides and Directories Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "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 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Guides and Directories
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck 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 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Guides and Directories Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Guides and Directories When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder 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 Guides and Directories
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Guides and Directories "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Guides and Directories
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guides and Directories You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Guides and Directories
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Guides and Directories Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Guides and Directories
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Guides and Directories A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Guides and Directories
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g May you never leave your marriage alive. Guides and Directories "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Guides and Directories
