Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Must mean software…

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    Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett

  • Turbulence

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    Turbulence is life force.  It is opportunity.  Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.Ramsey Clark

  • Surviving work

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    Three little sentences that will get you through life.  Number 1: Cover for me.  Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss!  Number 3: It was like that when I got here.Homer Simpson

  • Games

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    Children are the most desirable opponents at Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.Fran Lebowitz

  • Good stewardship

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    … The U.S. government clears forests; plants grass; builds roads, cattle guards, and fences; diverts streams; blows up beaver dams; “improves” habitats; monitors the health of livestock; excises predators, including 80,000 coyotes; and poisons, traps, or shoots more than 30,000 prairie dogs and beavers—both keystone species—each year.The result of this federal largesse, and the enclosure…

  • Ethics

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    Ethics is the nuclear wast of the executive site.  It’s dangerous, it’s always there, and nobody’s sure what to do with it.Kieran Mathieson, Oakland University, IEEE Computer, July 2008

  • Courage

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    Courage doesn’t always roar.  Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: “I’ll try again tomorrow.”Anne Hunninghake