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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the Universe is winning.
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A friend who cannot in a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned.
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You know you're a geek when ... you try to shoo a fly away from your monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft!
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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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.
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
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Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good
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You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him "Doctor".
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"When you reach the end of your rope...tie a knot in it and hang on."
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"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
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"We need not worry so much about what man descends from-it's what he descends to that shames the human race."
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| | Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. |
| | Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. |
| | By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work twelve hours a day. |
| | There is far more opportunity than there is ability. |
| | A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. |
| | The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
| | Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. |
| | I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. |
| | Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. |
| | A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him. |
| | When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships ...(tharr be more)will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now? |
| | Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. |
| | In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. |
| | Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. |
| | Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. |
| | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. |
| | It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird; it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. |
| | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |