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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Holywood Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "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 Holywood
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Holywood All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Holywood
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "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) Holywood Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Holywood
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Holywood The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Holywood
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Holywood At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Holywood
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Holywood "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Holywood
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Holywood Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Holywood
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Holywood "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Holywood
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Holywood Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Holywood
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Holywood Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "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) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Holywood
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Holywood Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Holywood
