Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Love

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    Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem.Ayn Rand

  • A kludge is just a kludge

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    It’s all well and good to define a kludge as using a band-aid to attach a box to the side of the box that’s affixed to the main system with chewing gum and duct tape, but that doesn’t do much when the time comes to design a solution to a system problem.Bob Lewis

  • Strength

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    Unfortunately, in life, our strengths can become our weaknesses.  Just as the dark side of charisma is narcisism, the dark side of innovation is fraud.Sherron Watkins, the accountant who warned Enron Executives that something was rotten, Time, 5 June, 2006

  • Leadership

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    A humble leader listens to others.  He or she values input from employees and is ready to hear the truth, even if it is bad news.  Humility is marked by an ability to admit mistakes.Sherron Watkins, the accountant who warned Enron Executives that something was rotten, Time, 5 June, 2006

  • Truth

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    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.Oscar Wilde

  • Conservatives

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    Conservatives are feeling under the gun right now.  They’re in a difficult position.  They have twice championed a man who turned out not only to not be a conservative but to be not competent in any way.  A lot of them are embarrassed and wish this Administration would go away.Bill Maher, Ten questions interview, Time,…

  • Fate

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    Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.  (Fate leads those who are willing.  The unwilling it drags.)Seneca