General Quotes

09/19/2003 Dr Wingnut Quotations Comments Off on General Quotes
  • There is no failure except in no longer trying.Elbert Hubbard
  • … never takeno cutoffs, and hurry along as fast as you canVirginia Reed,one of the survivors of the Donner Party to California
  • Assumption is the mother of all fuck-upsCharacter Ben in movie Under Siege 2, Dark Territory
  • UNEXPLORED, UNEXPOSED,UNEXPRESSED, YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS A MISTAKE.Jonathan Lord.  Assembled out of two clippings from advertisements in the Wall StreetJournal
  • I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a shiny sliver out of one hour.  I dropped it carelessly.  O God!  I knew not I held an opportunity.Hazel Lee
  • It is important that we plan for the future, imperative that we accept an outcome unplanned.Molly McDonald
  • Bravery is being the only one who knows you are afraid.Franklin P. Jones
  • The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.Eudora Welty
  • Guilt is not a culde sac; there is always a way out.   Guilt says, “I made a mistake”; shame says. “I am a mistake.”Merle A. Fossum and Marilyn Mason
  • The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Chinese proverb
  • Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for nonsmart reasons.Michael Shermer, Author of Why People Believe Weird Things
  • I’ll be nicer when you are smarter.Secretary of Bonnie Knutson, friend from UNLV
  • It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.W. Edwards Deming
  • Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress.  But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
  • Classification of developers: “Other: Someone who was too busy to become an expert in one of the above three areas [Analyst, Designer, or Integrator], and finds him- or herself asking the question: ‘Would you like fries or a soft drink with your order today?'”Charlie Alfred and Stephen J. Mellor, Object Magazine, May 1995 Pg 61.
  • IS Credibility = Ability to solve problems * empathy for the user.Bob Walker, CIO Hewlett-Packard at IW500, quoted in Information week, Secret CIO column, September 23, 1996 Pg. 136
  • I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.The Editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
  • I see no reason anyone would want to own a personal computer.Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), 1977
  • The reason God could create the Universe in only seven days was that he didn’t have an installed base.David Norman, a founder of Businessland and NetFRAME, circa 1985
  • The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If it appreciates – buy it.  If it depreciates – lease it."J. Paul Getty
  • It is impossible to underestimate the poor taste of the American public.Sounds like a quote from HL Menken, but not sure.
  • To Bonnie: I have either broken this hoe, or have enhanced the broken status of this hoe.A neighbor
  • The thinking has already been done.Common response of the LDS Church
  • Getting old ain’t for sissies; and if I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!Bette Davis
  • Getting old ain’t for sissies.Seventy-year old Arizona Food Banks Association volunteer commenting about her Ninety-year old mother.
  • When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.Catherine Ponder
  • Chance favors the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur (French Chemist and Microbiologist, 1822-1895)
  • Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
  • The opposite of talking isn’t listening.  The opposite of talking is waiting.Fran Lebowitz (1951-)
  • He’s an honest man — you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.Earl Wilson (1907-1987)
  • 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 (1882-1945)
  • I am an atheist, and I thank God for it.George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  • The two most beautiful words in the English language are “Cheque Enclosed.”Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
  • In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.Be’la Schick (1877-1967)
  • Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.Gore Vidal (1925-)
  • There is no such thing as “on the way out” as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you’re in business because you’re breathing.Louis Armstrong (1900-1971)
  • The only way to solve the Traffic problems of the Country is to pass a law that only paid-for Cars are allowed to use the Highways.  That would make Traffic so scarce we could use our Boulevards for Children’s playgrounds.Will Rogers (1879-1935)
  • A Conservative is a person who does not think anything should be done for the first time.Frank Vanderlip (1864-1937)
  • My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about “business as usual.”Phyllis Diller (1917-)
  • A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan next week.General George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)
  • The only certainty is that nothing is certain.Pliny the Elder
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.Edward Abbey
  • When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won.  There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.  Think of it… always.Mahatma Gandhi
  • I never hold a grudge.  As soon as I get even with the SOB, I forget all about it.W. C. Fields
  • It takes more faith to believe that we evolved from apes than it does to believe that God created men. Jorge Sardina
  • There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.Daniel Webster
  • I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Winston Churchill
  • I can please only one person today.  Today is not your day.  Tomorrow?  Doesn’t look good either.Anonymous
  • If you wait to do everything until you’re sure your right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.Win Borden (slightly more notable than anonymous)