Life in General
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life
forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
- Douglas Adams, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh
day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the %#&*ing thing
ever since.
Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of movement unless it was to
avoid responsibility?
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom
fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
When it rains, it pours.
Jones Motto: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment in time never.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my
life there.
All work is unpleasant, If it were pleasant -Then it wouldn't be work.
If you're feeling good, don't worry, you'll get over it.
My mind is made up - don't confuse me with the facts.
God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
Same shit - different day.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also
turns to the left.
- 'Smile' Lingers
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that
the system works.
- Bill Vaughan
I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once.
Most people prove it's not necessary to understand things in order to
argue about them.
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
- Edna Chase
An embarrassing moment is spitting out a car window that is not open.
Nothing makes life look brighter than a stroke of good luck immediately
following a stroke of bad luck.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as
a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become
a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
- Joyce Brothers
One of the great labor saving devices of today is tomorrow.
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
People who don't know whether they are coming or going are usually in
the biggest hurry to get there.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it
again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
- James Bryant Conant
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the
bases.
John W. Raper
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in
awareness.
James Thurber