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"I wonder if infants enjoy infancy as much as
adults enjoy adultery."
anonymous
"Live would be infinitely happier if we could be
born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
Mark Twain
"You can easily judge the character of a man by
how he treats those wo can do nothing for him."
Goethe
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever
wasted."
Aesop
"Virtue is its own problem."
unknown
"The power of accurate observation is commonly
called 'cynicism' by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everybody has something good inside them.
Some hide it, some neglect it, but it's there."
Mother Teresa
"Until you make peace with who you are,
you'll never be content with what you have."
Doris Mortman
"It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
change."
Charles Darwin
"The 3 hardest tasks in the world are neither
physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts:
to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say
'I was wrong.'"
from the book 'Pieces of Eight'
by Sydney J. Harris
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that
cause comedy in the streets?"
Dick Cavett
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two
people."
Victor Borge
"The most important thing in communication is to
hear what isn't being said."
Peter Drucker
"He who throws mud loses ground."
"If you bury the hatchet, you won't have an ax to grind."
unknown
"Managing people has nothing to do with facts."
Hon Choe Lai
"Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined
awl yore miss takes."
Brendon Hills
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million
keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks
to the Internet, we know this is not true."
Robert Wilensky (University of California)
"A train station is where the train stops; A bus
station is where the bus stops. On my desk I have a workstation..."
unknown
"Applying computer technology is simply finding
the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."
unknown
"The first 90% of the code takes 90% of the
development time [and budget]. The other 10% of the code takes the
other 90% of the development time [and budget]."
Tom Cargill
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station
wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
Andrew Tannenbaum
"Windows-95: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical
shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded
for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand
for 1 bit of competition."
unknown
"You can have it fast, cheap or right; PICK ANY
TWO."
Hon Choe Lai
"The power of accurate observation is commonly
called 'cynicism' by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
"If sense were common, everybody would have it."
Brian Copeland
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a
member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"Love is the triumph of imagination over
intelligence."
"Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
unknown
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
Oscar Wilde
"No matter how cynical I become, I can't keep
up."
Lily Tomlin
"There are things you'll learn by holding a cat by
the tail that can't be learned any other way."
Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education."
Mark Twain
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
Mark Twain
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you
to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
F. P. Jones
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills
all its pupils."
Hector Louis Berlioz
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the
test first, then the lesson afterward."
Vernon Sanders Law
"Setting an example is not the main means of
influencing another, it is the only means."
Albert Einstein
"It is necessary for us to learn from other's mistakes.
You will not live long enough the make them all yourself."
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
"The 'trial and error' method is simply an efficient
way to make errors. We learn most effectively from errors."
Robert Brawn
"A lecture is a process where the notes of the
professor are transfered to the notes of the student without passing
through the brains of either one."
Emmanuel Kant
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience
comes from bad judgment."
Tom Watson
"Research is what I am doing when I don't know
what I'm doing."
Wernher von Braun
"Necessity is the mother of circumvention."
unknown
"Life isn't meaningless; it just has a poor signal
to noise ratio."
unknown
"Every time you make a guitar out of that combination
-- Engelmann spruce top with Brazilian rosewood back
and sides -- it's like magic. You'd have to be
a DORK to make a bad one."
Bob Taylor
"There are things you'll learn by holding a cat by
the tail that can't be learned any other way."
Mark Twain
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables
you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
F. P. Jones
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the
test first, then the lesson afterward."
Vernon Sanders Law
"It is necessary for us to learn from other's mistakes.
You will not live long enough the make them all yourself."
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
"The 'trial and error' method is simply an efficient
way to make errors. We learn most effectively from errors."
Robert Brawn
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience
comes from bad judgment."
Tom Watson
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were
a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift
himself up by the handle."
Sir Winston Churchill
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States of
America. The thing is, I'd be just as proud for half the money."
Art Linkletter
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later
it adds up to real money."
Everett Dirksen
"If 'Con' is the opposite of
'Pro', then the opposite of Progress must be... Congress."
unknown
"Live would be infinitely happier if we could be
born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
Mark Twain
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to
get up."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face.
This should tell us something about the custom of shaving."
Tom Robbins
"Life isn't meaningless; it just has a poor signal
to noise ratio."
unknown
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience
comes from bad judgment."
Tom Watson
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for
what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Francis Bacon
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
Mark Twain
"Virtue is its own problem."
unknown
"Necessity is the mother of circumvention."
unknown
"All's well that ends."
Mel Brawn
"Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"The significant problems we have connot be
solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
Albert Einstein
"I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody
isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same
God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended
us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
"Leadership is earning and re-earning your
followership."
David Packard
"Managing people has nothing to do with facts."
Hon Choe Lai
"Men [and women] want to do a good job, a creative
job, and ... if they are provided with the proper environment, they will
do so."
Bill Hewlett
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States of
America. The thing is, I'd be just as proud for half the money."
Art Linkletter
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later
it adds up to real money."
Everett Dirksen
"If investments are keeping you awake at night,
sell down to the sleeping point."
Anonymous Wall Street saying
"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die
by four o'clock."
Henny Youngman
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like
you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
Satchel Paige
"If you're given a choice between money and sex
appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your
sex appeal."
Katherine Hepburn
"You can have it all. You just can't have it
all at once."
Oprah Winfrey
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift
himself up by the handle."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Money and success don't change people, they
merely amplify what is already there."
Will Smith
"Until you make peace with who you are,
you'll never be content with what you have."
Doris Mortman
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going
to do."
Henry Ford
"We are continuously faced by great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insoluble problem."
Lee Iacocca
"Borders? I've never seen one, but I've heard they
exist in some people's minds."
Thor Heyerdahl
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember,
amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic..."
unknown
"If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men
to gather wood, give orders and divide the work. Rather, teach them to
yearn for the far and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
"Setting an example is not the main means of
influencing another, it is the only means."
Albert Einstein
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"The moment of victory is much too short to live
for that and nothing else."
Martina Navrtilova
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't,
you are right."
Henry Ford
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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 upon the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
"The best way to predict the future is to create
it."
Alan Kay
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretzky
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Writing about music is like dancing about
architecture."
unknown
"I play the notes as they are written, but it
is God who makes the music."
Johann Sebastian Bach
"Every time you make a guitar out of that combination
-- Engelmann spruce top with Brazilian rosewood back
and sides -- it's like magic. You'd have to be
a DORK to make a bad one."
Bob Taylor
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't,
you are right."
Henry Ford
"It's better to be an optimist and a fool than a
pessimist and right."
unknown
"A realist is more correct about things in life
than an optimist. But the optimist seems to have more friends and much
more fun."
Megan, age 14
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like
you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
Satchel Paige
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The bird a nest, the spider a web,
man friendship."
William Blake
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,
like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those
things that give value to survival."
C.S. Lewis
"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than
unquestioned answers."
unknown
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Goethe
"If sense were common, everybody would have it."
Brian Copeland
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education."
Mark Twain
"He who throws mud loses ground."
"If you bury the hatchet, you won't have an ax to grind."
unknown
"I wonder if infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery."
anonymous
"If 'Con' is the opposite of
'Pro', then the opposite of Progress must be... Congress."
unknown
"Windows-95: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical
shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded
for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand
for 1 bit of competition."
unknown
"Necessity is the mother of circumvention."
unknown
"All's well that ends."
Mel Brawn
"The first 90% of the code takes 90% of the
development time [and budget]. The other 10% of the code takes the
other 90% of the development time [and budget]."
Tom Cargill
"Goals are dreams with deadlines."
Diana Scharf Hunt
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
W. Clement Stone
"Nothing is less productive than to make more
efficient what should not be done at all."
Peter Drucker
"You can have it fast, cheap or right; PICK ANY
TWO."
Hon Choe Lai
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every
problem begins to resemble a nail."
Abraham Maslow
"It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
change."
Charles Darwin
"Wouldn't it be a great world if insecurity and
desperation made us more attractive? If needy were a turn-on?"
from the movie, 'Broadcast News'
"He who throws mud loses ground."
"If you bury the hatchet, you won't have an ax to grind."
unknown
"Love is the triumph of imagination over
intelligence."
"Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
unknown
"The big difference between sex for money and sex
for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
Brendon Behan
"Laughter is the shortest distance between
two people."
Victor Borge
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,
like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those
things that give value to survival."
C.S. Lewis
"I had often wondered if the devil hadn't invented
committees to confound the work of the Kingdom [of God]."
from the book 'Church Choir Mysteries' by Roberta
Updegraff
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same
God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended
us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
"To work for the common good is the greatest
religion."
Albert Schweitzer
"I play the notes as they are written, but
it is God who makes the music."
Johann Sebastian Bach
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
Mark Twain
"Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face.
This should tell us something about the custom of shaving."
Tom Robbins
"The overwhelming majority of people have more than
the average [mean] number of legs."
E. Grebenik
"The big difference between sex for money and sex
for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
Brendon Behan
"If you're given a choice between money and sex
appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your
sex appeal."
Katherine Hepburn
"The two most common elements in the universe are
hydrogen and stupidity."
unknown
"Stupid people shouldn't breed."
unknown
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the
team."
John Wooden (basketball coach)
"Television: A medium. So called because it is
neither rare nor well done."
Ernie Kovacs
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that
cause comedy in the streets?"
Dick Cavett
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we
find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am
always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
Sydney J. Harris
"No matter how much you wiggle and dance, the last
drop always goes down your pants."
unknown
"All's well that ends."
Mel Brawn
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"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
"I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
"All's well that ends."
"The 'trial and error' method is simply an efficient way to make errors. We learn most effectively from errors."
"The first 90% of the code takes 90% of the development time [and budget]. The other 10% of the code takes the other 90% of the development time [and budget]."
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
"If sense were common, everybody would have it."
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"The significant problems we have connot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right."
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those wo can do nothing for him."
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
"The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average [mean] number of legs."
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
"The 3 hardest tasks in the world are neither
physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to
return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say
'I was wrong.'."
(from the book 'Pieces of Eight')
"If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
"Men [and women] want to do a good job, a creative job, and ... if they are provided with the proper environment, they will do so."
"Borders? I've never seen one, but I've heard they exist in some people's minds."
"Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore miss takes."
"Goals are dreams with deadlines."
"We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problem."
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
"A lecture is a process where the notes of the professor are transfered to the notes of the student without passing through the brains of either one."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."
"Managing people has nothing to do with facts."
"You can have it fast, cheap or right; PICK ANY TWO."
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, then the lesson afterward."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States of America. The thing is, I'd be just as proud for half the money."
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
"A realist is more correct about things in life than an optimist. But the optimist seems to have more friends and much more fun."
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
"Leadership is earning and re-earning your followership."
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
"It is necessary for us to learn from other's mistakes. You will not live long enough the make them all yourself."
"Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving."
"If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men to gather wood, give orders and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea."
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called 'cynicism' by those who have not got it."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
"To work for the common good is the greatest religion."
"Money and success don't change people, they merely amplify what is already there."
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
"Every time you make a guitar out of that combination -- Engelmann spruce top with Brazilian rosewood back and sides -- it's like magic. You'd have to be a DORK to make a bad one."
"Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it's there."
"No matter how cynical I become, I can't keep up."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Live would be infinitely happier if we could be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
"There are things you'll learn by holding a cat by the tail that can't be learned any other way."
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
"I had often wondered if the devil hadn't invented
committees to confound the work of the Kingdom [of God]."
from the book 'Church Choir Mysteries' by Roberta
Updegraff
"Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."
"Wouldn't it be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If needy were a turn-on?"
"If you don't stand for something, you could fall for anything."
"A train station is where the train stops; A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk I have a workstation..."
"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers."
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic..."
"It's better to be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right."
"He who throws mud loses ground."
"If you bury the hatchet, you won't have an ax to grind."
"If 'Con' is the opposite of 'Pro', then the opposite of Progress must be... Congress."
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
"Stupid people shouldn't breed."
"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."
"Love is the triumph of imagination over
intelligence."
"Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
"Virtue is its own problem."
"Necessity is the mother of circumvention."
"Life isn't meaningless; it just has a poor signal to noise ratio."
"Windows-95: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition."
"I wonder if infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery."
"If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point."
"No matter how much you wiggle and dance, the last drop always goes down your pants."
"The power of accurate observation is commonly
called 'cynicism' by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
"You can easily judge the character of a man by
how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
Goethe
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience
comes from bad judgment."
Tom Watson
"Television: A medium. So called because it is
neither rare nor well done."
Ernie Kovacs
"Dew knot trussed yore spell checker two fined awl
yore miss takes."
Brendon Hills
"Life isn't meaningless; It just has a poor signal
to noise ratio."
unknown
"Writing about music is like dancing about
architecture."
unknown
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Goethe
"All's well that ends."
Mel Brawn
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