It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
-- Bill Harlan
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
-- Larry Wall
All human relationships must be purchased with money
-- George Orwell
Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes)
-- Walt Whitman
If you're going to accomplish anything interesting, you're going to have to go hard.
-- Henry Rollins
No! Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda
This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon, and returning him safely to the Earth.
-- John F. Kennedy
We should work to reduce substantially the cost of space operations. Our present rocket technology will provide a reliable launch capability for some time. But as we build for longer range future, we must devise less costly and less complicated ways of transporting payloads into space. Such a capability-designed so that it will be suitable for a wide range of scientific, defense and commercial uses-can help us realize important economies in all aspects of our space program.
-- Richard M. Nixon
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC
All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
This calls for a very special mixture of psychology and extreme violence.
-- Vivian, The Young Ones
The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
-- William Gibson
When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornfull tone, "It means Just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
-- Lewis Carrol
Die manliche phantasie ist die beste waffe der Frau.
-- Sophia Loren
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect, has intended us to forego their use.
-- Galileo
It's embarrassing you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
-- Abbie Hoffman
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
-- Winston Churchill
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
-- Pablo Picasso
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'
-- C.S. Lewis
Just remember: when you go to court, you are trusting your fate to twelve people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!
-- Anonymous
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
-- Colonel Adolphus Busch
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
To be alive, is that not to be again and again surprised?
-- Nicholas van Rijn
Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex, it won't do you any good to know a lot about bathtubs.
-- vagabond@mcgurkus.circus.com
"Do not speculate!"
-- Chuck Moore
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams
Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving.
-- RFC 1958
A diplomat is man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
-- Robert Frost
There is one thing stronger then all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come
-- Victor Hugo
when china wakes, it will shake the world
-- napoleon bonaparte
When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission.
-- Grace Murray Hopper
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps
it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into
the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess
himself of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Invent and fit; have fits and reinvent!
-- Alan J. Perlis
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent
to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Milan Kundera
What hashish gives with one hand it takes away with the other: that is to say, it gives the power of imagination and takes away the ability to profit by it.
-- Baudelaire
Our greatest victories and those which are most enduring are our victories over ourselves
-- napoleon bonaparte
Desire is the key to motivation, but it?s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek"
-- Mario Andretti
everything touches everything
-- Jorge Luis Borges
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
-- William Shakespeare
One should not theorize before one has data.
-- Sherlock Holmes
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything
-- Josef Stalin
Translations are like women. If they are pretty, chances are they won't be very faithful.
-- Steven Seymour
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristoteles Onassis
In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich.
-- Gore Vidal
Plans are worthless, planning is indispensable.
-- Eisenhower
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
-- William Shakespeare
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
-- Steven Wright
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there *for the rest of your life*.
-- Jim Samuels
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-- George Bernard Shaw
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
-- Robert Frost
Always value the individual over the system.
-- Bruce Lee
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
-- Victor Hugo
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
-- Mark Twain
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
-- Ambrose Bierce
To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Earl Wilson
There exists no Turing-Machine, which is able to decide if any other Turing-Machine ever stops or not.
-- Hartmann, Nievergelt, Reichert
Whatever is calculable, can be assessed by a Turing-Machine!
-- Alonzo Church
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
-- Richard Bach
To measure is to know.
-- Ernst Werner von Siemens
It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in.
-- Ogden Nash
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
-- Humphrey Bogart
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Why should I be content to simply live in this world, when I, as a human being, can CREATE it?
-- Oertel
Why should I be content to simply live in this world, when I, as a human being, can CREATE it?
-- Oertel
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Of _course_ I like women. Historically, man has _always_ been attracted to Evil.
-- Timothy McClanahan
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Lords, when I have a moment I shall bend my mind to that question.
-- Lord Sainsbury of Turville
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think
-- Earnest Rutherford
He who travels happily must travel light.
-- Saint Exupery
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
-- Benjamin Franklin
What is the robbing of a bank, compared to the founding of a bank?
-- Bertolt Brecht
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
-- Stephen Stills
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
-- Stephen Stills
The cost of living has just gone up another dollar a quart.
-- W.C. Fields
the point is to get drunk on a glass of water.
-- Henry Miller
Things are not as simple as they seems at first.
-- Edward Thorp
Those who had begun that experiment, so long ago, had not been men -
or even remotely human. But they were flesh and blood, and when they
looked out across the deeps of space, they had felt awe, and wonder, and
loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power, they set forth for the
stars.
In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and
watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how
often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the
cosmic night.
And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more
precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became
farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped.
-- Arthur C Clarke (2001)
"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. One must come to one's subject in a pure spirit. One must be strict with oneself. There must be time for contemplation, for reflection about the world and the people about one. If one photographs people, it is their inner look that must be revealed."
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
There is nothing in this world that does not have its decisive moment
-- Cardinal de Retz
Photography is a matter of putting your brain, your eye and your heart in the same line of sight.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within; with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The unleashed
power of the atom
has changed everything,
except our mode of thinking.
-- Albert Einstein
I'm a hero with coward's legs
-- Spike Milligans
I may be drunk madam but in the morning i will be sober whereas you will still be ugly
-- Winston Churchill
Heaven is an english policeman, a French cook, a german engineer, an italian lover and everything organised by the swiss.
Hell is an english cook, a french engineer, a german policeman, a swiss lover, and everything organised by the italians.
-- john elliot
Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
-- Spike Milligans
I strive to be brief - but I become obscure
-- Horace
You cannot talk your way out of a situation you have behaved yourself into
-- Horace
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
But if we do get more time, we have to organise ourselves to get some benefit from it. What is life if we cannot get some pleasure from friends and family, from relaxation and contemplation? Most people do not have an idea of what their human potential is, we are so used to not having time.
-- Linton Kwesi Johnston
The natural world is too green and badly lit.
-- Francois Boucher
By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness which is a natural source of goodness.
-- Dalai Lama
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born
-- Ronald Reagan
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea...."
-- RFC 1925
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need
-- Auguste Rodin
Sleep -- the most beautiful experience in life -- except drink.
-- W.C. Fields
I had to get off [of Prozac] at a certain point because I realized that... everything is just OK. There are peaks, there are valleys, but they're all kind of carved and smoothed out.
-- Jim Carrey
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment someone contemplates it, bearing within themselves the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-- Pablo Picasso
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses.
-- George Washington Carver
Strive for art in reverse.
-- John Waters
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
-- Robin Williams
Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that, whichever way we go, the price is the same: in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.
-- Paulo Coelho
We're lost but we are making good time.
-- Yogi Berra
Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.
-- George Leonard
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, and charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one tiny corner of the globe.
-- Mark Twain
Marketing is what happens while we are being good to our customers.
-- Paul Hawken
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
-- George Eliot
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
-- Albert Einstein
It is tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
-- Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon
Sure HyperCard is object oriented. You just don't get to pick the objects.
-- Ward Cunningham
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense or immovable as that of woman for woman.
-- Landor
"Face it, programmers are today's telephone operators and we are simply in the way.
-- Anonymous
...the current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.
-- Donald Norman
three can keep a secret, if two are dead
-- Benjamin Franklin
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney
Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses?
Girls are so much prettier.
-- Marie Laurencin
"Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is a photographer,"
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
To anarchy!
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Because I'm alive. Life is a provocation.... I'm against people in power and what that imposes upon them. Anglo-Saxons have to learn what anarchism is. For them, it's violence. A cat knows what anarchy is. Ask a cat. A cat understands. They're against discipline and authority. A dog is trained to obey. Cats can't be. Cats bring on chaos. Libertarianism -- c'est la vie.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
"In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth."
-- Susanne Langer
Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somepn'n!
-- Thomas Edison
God: I created you by breathing life into dirt.
Man: Cool trick, God. We've learned to do the same thing.
God: Cool trick. Now try it from first principles.
Man: What do you mean?
God: Well, next time, make your own dirt.
-- Tackhead (54550)
If plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, 'Why are we here?' Plastic...asshole.
-- George Carlin
He who would travel happily must travel light.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Place Where Optimism Most Flourishes Is The Lunatic Asylum
-- Havelock Ellis
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between math and physics is the difference between masturbation and sex.
-- Paul Tomblin
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!"
-- Alan Kay
Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival
of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet .
-- Albert Einstein
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure
and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
-- Albert Einstein
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy.
-- Aristotle
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ; it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
-- Albert Einstein
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider,
who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming,
with a goal in front and not behind.
-- George Bernard Shaw
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-- Albert Einstein
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family...
Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men.
I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs,
opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.
-- Albert Einstein
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
-- Richard Moss
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get
yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases which our
founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-- C.A. Beard
Everyone should know of all information that others have deemed unfit for public knowledge.
-- Anonymous
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let people have guns ...why should we let them have ideas?
-- Josef Stalin
Imagination is more important than intelligence.
-- Albert Einstein
I wish Bill Gates the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
-- Steve Jobs
I want you to be the good news to those around you.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
-- Mother Teresa
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while .
-- Albert Einstein
I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious .
-- Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details.
-- Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
-- Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it .
-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
-- Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people .
-- Albert Einstein
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts .
-- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge .
-- Albert Einstein
Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within .
-- Albert Einstein
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty .
-- Albert Einstein
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others .
-- Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has , of course , powerful muscles , but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
-- Albert Einstein
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
-- Louis Pasteur
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
-- Alan Mathison Turing
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
-- Tara Ploughman
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
-- Richard Feynman
Modern invention has been a great leveller. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.
-- Ivor Brown
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-- Yeats
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-- Thomas Huxley
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.
-- James Nicoll
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
-- Ronald Reagan
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
-- S.J. Perelman
a man only knows how to build a house once he has built a house.
-- nietzsche
You don't need permission to innovate
-- Mike O'Dell
No kings, voting or presidents, just a rough consensus and running code.
-- Dave Clark
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
-- Frank Zappa
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
-- Dean Martin
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
-- Aldous Huxley
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
-- Woody Allen
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
-- Larry King
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
-- W.C. Fields
Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.
-- Bruce Chatwin
Own only what you can carry with you: know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
-- Frank Zappa
This is development level code
-- Peter Butler
Sarcasm is the language of the devil.
-- Thomas Carlyle
crossing an ocean on a small yacht is a bit like a dog crossing a freeway. Take a run for it and hope you don't get clobbered.
-- Michel DeRidder
In theory, there should be no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.
-- Yogi Berra
Much work is lost, for the lack of a little more.
-- Edward H. Harriman
How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure
-- Charles Crumb
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
-- Samuel Johnson
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
-- Dwight David Eisenhower
Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds
-- Albert Einstein
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
-- F. Kafka
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
-- Samuel Beckett
We had the sky up there, all speckled with
stars, and we used to lay on our backs...
and discuss whether they were made, or only
just happened.
-- Mark Twain
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel.
-- Homer Simpson
If society were bound to invent technologies which could only be used entirely within the law, then we would still be sitting in caves sucking our feet.
-- Gene Kan
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
-- Mark Twain
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
1. If anything can go wrong, it will. (see Murphy's law)
2. Systems in general work poorly or not at all.
3. Complicated systems seldom exceed five percent efficiency.
4. In complex systems, malfunction and even total non-function may not be detectable for long periods (if ever).
5. A system can fail in an infinite number of ways.
6. Systems tend to grow, and as they grow, they encroach.
7. As systems grow in complexity, they tend to oppose their stated function.
8. As systems grow in size, they tend to lose basic functions.
9. The larger the system, the less the variety in the product.
10. The larger the system, the narrower and more specialized the interfaces between individual elements.
11. Control of a system is exercised by the element with the greatest variety of behavioral responses.
12. Loose systems last longer and work better.
13. Complex systems exhibit complex and unexpected behaviors.
14. Colossal systems foster colossal errors.
-KISS
-- mcguyver (589810)
Fiction must be plausible; real life has no such constraint.
-- Stewart Brand
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus
The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it
-- R.A.Heinlein
I love to think and I don't want to screw up the machine.
-- Richard Feynman
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.
-- George Bernard Shaw
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-- O'Rourke
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
-- Socrates
Saying "You cant do it" is more like saying "You won't"
-Jeep Crompton
-- Jeep Crompton
A woman shouldn't have to buy her own perfume.
-- Maurine Lewis
I reject your reality, and substitute my own
-- Adam Savage
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
-- Samuel Johnson
A storm broke out in my mind
-- Albert Einstein
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
-- Steven Wright
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
-- Bob Dylan
To whom much is given, much is expected.
-- John F. Kennedy
Let the writer write and let the reader read.
-- Gore Vidal
The point of analytic design is to assist thinking.
-- Edward Tufte
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots than have one agree with me.
-- Winston Churchill
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
-- Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
-- Winston Churchill
One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.
-- Jean Baudrillard
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
-- Jean Baudrillard
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
-- Betty Reese
I need a mental floss break.
-- thesandtiger
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
I used to have a drug problem but now I make enough money.
-- David Lee Roth
Let me be clear about this: I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
-- Keith Richards
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy<a href="http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/" target="_blank">.</a>
-- Monty Python
The concern for man and his destiny must always be the chief interest of all technical effort. Never forget it between your diagrams and equations.
-- Albert Einstein
A lot of people nowadays forget that the M in XML stands for markup. Markup is a noun derived from a verb: it implies that you start with a piece of continuous text, and you then annotate it, without changing the original content.
-- Michael Kay
Wish for the impossible.Hope for the best. Do what u can and God will do the rest!
-- Dr. ninni
Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top.
-- Edward Abbey
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
-- Karl Marx
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of evil people but because ordinary people do nothing about it."
-- Albert Einstein
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-- Charles Kingsley
the object of cruising is to make a complete change of surroundings . . . you should not lug along what you are trying to leave behind.
-- L. Francis Herreshoff
You are the hero of your own story. Make sure it's a good one.
-- Tom MacNaughton
Science is not there to tell us about the Universe, but to tell us how to talk about the Universe.
-- Niels Bohr
In other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvements of tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices and errors of today.
-- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
I'd prefer to see the squabble of democracy to the efficiency of dictators.
-- Lawrence Wilkerson
the only reason they make money is that their prices are so low
-- Peter Butler
Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never let us negotiate out of fear but never let us fear to negotiate.
-- John F. Kennedy
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
-- H.G. Wells
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
-- John F. Kennedy
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't mind paying taxes. They buy me civilization.
-- O.W. Holmes
I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something.
-- Charles Manson
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there
-- Will Rogers
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-- Winston Churchill
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-- Albert Einstein
The route I survey will not be the cheapest but it will be the best
-- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
-- Émile Zola
when ssh is the foundation of your security architecture, you know things aren't working as they should
-- Rob Pike
If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-- Carl Sagan
This is the Nineties, Bubba, and there is no such thing as Paranoia. It's all true.
-- Hunter S Thompson
That government is best which governs least
-- Henry David Thoreau
Man, I come from the days when drugs were drugs. We had dope where one toke would turn your hair long and your folks into raving maniacs at the dinner table. Some of the stuff, why, a single hit could transform a Catholic schoolgirl into Gomorrah on all fours, snuff your ego like a light, rotate the tires on The Great Wheel of Being and make your eyes lay eggs. See God? Shit, you could get him down in the hot tub and wash his mouth out with herbal soap. And that's if you split the blotter paper four ways. As for insights, try yage and psilocybin mushrooms mixed with mescaline and Anchor Steam beer. Gautama Buddha his own bad self comes to your house and writes out the eightfold path in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. We had drugs that would give you immortal life for thirty-six hours. And what about the time the nine-assed Peyote Demon peeled the top of my head like an orange and vomited the Enclopedia Britannica into my empty skull?
That's what we meant by high in the old days.
-- william s. burroughs
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
-- Joseph Henry
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
-- Plato
I find television very educational. The moment someone turns it on, I go off and read a book.
-- G Marx
Obscurity is like health food-- unpleasant, perhaps, but good for you. Whereas fame tends to be like the alcohol produced by fermentation. When it reaches a certain concentration, it kills off the yeast that produced it.
-- paulgraham.
Obscurity is like health food-- unpleasant, perhaps, but good for you. Whereas fame tends to be like the alcohol produced by fermentation. When it reaches a certain concentration, it kills off the yeast that produced it.
-- Paul Graham
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-- Albert Einstein
However little television you watch, watch less.
-- David McCullough
2008 is a general date by which time everyone will realize the world they thought they were living in was over."
-- John Titor
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Milan Kundera
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
-- Chinese Proverb
If you love life, don't waste time, because time is what life is made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin
[s]anity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
-- George Santayana
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams
Reality is just a point of view
-- P K Dick
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
your message should be readable on brand-X operating systems for all values of X.
-- Don Knuth
My 10-line python scripts are just like everyone else's except I wrote a script to interpret them
-- Guido von Rossum
Sights seen in the mind's eye can never be destroyed
-- Strabo
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
-- Sam Levenson
Penalties against a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
-- Jimmy Carter
I'm not persuaded that a drug like cannabis needs to be a heavy criminal activity in the eyes of the law
-- Helen Clark
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.
-- Pierre Bourdieu
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended.
-- Rowan Atkinson
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
-- Horace
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
-- Kerry Gleeson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can...give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
-- Mark Van Doren
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Henry Bergson
Pretty women make us buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer
-- Al Bundy
The purpose of the office of the president is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it
-- Douglas Adams
It never did. The revolution was canceled after all,
-- John Peel
You can't see anything from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk.
-- Edward Abbey
Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.
-- Mason Cooley
It never got weird enough for me.
-- Hunter Stockton Thompson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
-- Samuel Johnson
It's not who votes that count - it's who counts the votes.
-- Josef Stalin
The "s" in SMTP is the single most ironic "s" in the english language.
-- Peter Hugh Butler
There is probably no hangover that comes anywhere close to the hangover from an exorcism
-- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0603/features/peru4.
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
-- Timothy Leary
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
-- Hunter S Thompson
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