Quotes
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
There's only one song, and Adam and Eve wrote it; the rest is a variation on a theme.
- Keith Richards
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
- Thomas Reid
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
- Charles F. Kettering
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
- Thoreau
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most dangerous thing you will ever do is drive a car.
- unknown
Security is mostly superstition. It doesn't exist in nature. Life is a great adventure or it is nothing.
- Helen Keller
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.
- Etched into a Burger King table, 1975
Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.
- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A good way to enslave a man is to make him obsess over trivia.
- Rousseau
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
- Don Henley
Nothing is as durable as a bad idea.
- H.L. Mencken
School is just society breaking the spirit of the stupid.
- unknown
We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
- Navajo proverb
There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
- Rethin
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot
We share half our genes with the banana. This is a fact more evident in some of my acquaintances than others.
- Robert May
Prediction is very hard, especially about the future.
- Yogi Berra
When given two competing explanations for an event----one involving conspiracy and the other incompetence----always choose incompetence.
- Dr. Richard Cottam
I mean what's the use of all that astronomy? There isn't any. Its curiosity that I'm satisfying.
- Richard Feynman
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
- Albert Einstein
Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
- George Burns
He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin
I think our planets immune system is trying to get rid of us, and should.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Learn from the mistakes of others. You cant live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
He hoped and prayed that there wasnt an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasnt an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
- Butch Hancock
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for youll be criticized anyway. Youll be damned if you do, and damned if you dont.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
For Geeks Only
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it.
- Anonymous Coward on slashdot.com
If you aren’t embarrassed by v1.0 you didn’t release it early enough
- Andy Brice
Creating platform-independent, highly interactive, installation-free applications is a noble aim, and Ajax is a very clever solution, but it is not a solid foundation for the applications of the future.
- Neil Davidson