Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
| Franklin P. Jones |
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.
| Rich Cook |
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."
| Samuel Butler |
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
| Steve Wozniak |
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
| John Abrams |
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.
| Carl Sagan |
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.
| Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895) |
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.
| Juuso Heimonen |
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
| Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) |
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
| Groucho Marx |
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
| George Orwell (1903 - 1950) |
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
| David Coblitz |
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
| Michael Pritchard |
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
| Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982) |
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
| Thomas Edison (1848 - 1931) |
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
| Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1832 - 1898) |
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
| Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
| A. Sachs |
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
| John Lennon |
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.
| Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) |
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
| W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946) |
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
| A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963) |
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
| Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) |
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
| Margaret Peters |
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
| Sir Isaac Newton |
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
| Clifford Stoll |
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
| P.J. Plauger |
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft!
| Theodore Roosevelt (1858 1919) |
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
| Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
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.
| Confucius |
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.
| Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) |
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
| G.K. Chesterton |
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.
| Charles Austin Beard |
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
| Charles Wadsworth |
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
| Doug Larson |
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
| W. Somerset Maugham |
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
| Abraham Lincoln |
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
| Arcesilaus |
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
| James Oppenheimer |
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
| Joan Didion (1934 - ) |
We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
| Newton Minow (FCC chairman) |
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
| Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
| Evan Esar |
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
| Wernher von Braun |
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
| John F. Kennedy |
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.
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good
| Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him "Doctor".
| Abe Lemons |
"When you reach the end of your rope...tie a knot in it and hang on."
| Thomas Jefferson |
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
| Otto von Bismarck |
"We need not worry so much about what man descends from-it's what he descends to that shames the human race."
| Mark Twain |
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. | George S. Patton |
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. | Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) |
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work twelve hours a day. | Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) |
There is far more opportunity than there is ability. | Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) |
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. | George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | Alan Kay |
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. | William Arthur Ward |
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. | Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. | Francis of Assisi |
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him. | David Brinkley |
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? | Max Lucado |
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. | Colin Powell |
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. | Robert Frost |
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. | John Perry Barlow |
Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. | Daniel J. Boorstin |
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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. | C.S. Lewis |
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |