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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard E There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) E
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford E Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. E
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle E No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) E
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers E "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 E
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan E As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur E
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin E Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) E
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott E "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba E
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker E "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') E
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda E Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein E
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco E The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray E
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-- Sigmund Freud 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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it E "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke E
