OT: Quotes

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
- Lin Yutang

"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."
- Chinese proverb

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

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"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. -- Albert Camus

True love isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially --even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it. -- William R. Mattox, Jr.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. -- Art Turock

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. -- Judith Viorst


What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility. -- George Levinger

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continually until death do them part. -- George Bernard Shaw

"'Shut up', he explained." Ring Lardner

"Strip, or depart!" Above the entrance to the Gymnasium in Athens.

"He keeps things from going wrong by keeping them from beginning to go wrong." Stanley Cavell on J. L. Austin

A few I used to have as my signature -

The good is often the enemy of the best - Bill Wilson

Abuse under the guise of helping is still abuse. - Mars

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance - Albert Einstein

You'll have to excuse me, I have brain damage due to too much drinking and too little breathing! - Mars

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off - Button from ACOA

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

And my favourite one on this thread -

Postby rosiefrosie on 04 Aug 2010, 19:11

My goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am.

That is just brilliant

Since when does a dog think - Dusty and Bonnie

I was also going to quote Roosters previous signature, but as it is no longer there, I can't

And to end on a serious note -

The world is made up of not goodies and baddies, but of people who can be twisted and bent into all shapes, that we are 360', each one of us - John Hurt in "Shooting Dogs".

Mars

and to round things off -

???? - Hey Mars - Give all this bleeding heart stuff a rest
We are sick of it! - Everybody except Mars

"Never underestimate the power of denial."
~Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley), American Beauty

A general can win every battle by knowing when to not fight. SUN TZU (6th c. BC)

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
-G.K.Chesterton

Dogs worship us.
Cats expect us to worship them.
--no idea at all

"Experience is an excellent teacher, but he charges dreadful wages."
--Unknown (I would like to know who said it, though)

"I wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it."
Jenny Marx

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
Robert Coveyou

"One cannot have too large a party."
Character from some Jane Austen novel

"The ocean does not notify you when it comes to claim the sand castle which you built."
--Unknown

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
--J. R. R. Tolkien

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. "
--quotes on Teachers by Mark Van Doren

"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
--Unknown

I can't believe I forgot these!


"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
--Fred Brooks, and I've seen this happen many times. Fred is ALWAYS right.

"Good judgment comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgment."
--Fred Brooks

My favorites (from the sainted Mae West):
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
"If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning."

And these: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Seneca the Younger, 4 BC-65 AD

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." Blaise Pascal

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence" Bertrand Russell

And I love the haiku! This one is good:
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen
Dies so beautifully.

"When you entered this world you were crying and evryone around you were smiling. Try to live life so that when you're leaving you smile and everyone around you is crying"

"A hen is just an egg's way to make another egg" - Samuel L. Butler

They don't believe fat meat's greasy.
There is a freedom in not caring what anybody thinks... Probably a bit of lonliness too.
I'm tired of you goin' up 'side my head then comin' and crawlin' up in my bed... (from a country music song)
I guess I'd be doing better if I'd do better. by LW Ruffin
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to their folly. Proverbs
If you can't be happy by yourself, don't expect someone else to fix what you can't.
My sympathies to those who have found it true we have many acquaintances in life but few friends.
When I was young all that mattered was hanging out with my friends. This must be my second childhood.
Never underestimate the power of hope.
It is said it's more blessed to give than receive. Life gives most a chance to make their own comparisons.
Must be jelly, jam don't shake like that by Dad, smacking Mom on the behind
Gratitude is a choice.
The less I possess the less I stress.
You can tell a lot about a person by who they don't make eye contact with.
Unlikely friendships are the spice of life.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults,if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other." - Benjamin Franklin

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates

"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time." - Bill Gates (2004)

"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place." - Douglass Adams

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds

"The things that
We're afraid of
Are gonna show us
What we're made of
In the end."
--Eliot Sloan & Jeff Pence
(Blessid Union of Souls)
Walking Off the Buzz.

"There were hard pills to swallow
But we drank 'em all down
Oh the nights were too short then
And now they're a little too long."
--Shawn Colvin, Cry Like an Angel.

"Standing alone
Each has his own
Ticket in his hand
And as the evening descends
I sit thinking
About Everyman."
--Jackson Browne, For Everyman.

"Ooh-ahh-eee-aah-ooh-aah."
--Cat Stevens, Peace Train.