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Proverbs FileInteresting quotations that appear on the Notebook pageApathy is becoming a major problem, but who cares?
By the time a man can read a woman like a book, he is too old to collect a library.
Eschew Obfuscation.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
People never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.
One of the nice parts about heading toward middle age is that you can find all your favorite music in the bargain bin.
Turtles never hurdle.
The Secret-Of Success Law:
It's a known fact -- cross-eyed teachers cannot control their pupils.
90 Percent of the game is half mental.
Number of U.S. Universities that offer a bagpipe major: 1
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Football combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I hold that a little rebellion is a good thing.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones.
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
The country that draws a broad line between its fighting men and its thinking men will find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
I would believe only in a god who could dance.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.
God made man because he loves stories.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
All would live long; but none would be old.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever...
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
The man who knows "how" will always have a job. The man who knows "why" will always be his boss.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
Children need love especially when they don't deserve it.
If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Things in our country run in spite of our government. Not by aid of it.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
There are two ways to spread the light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
Money makes money and the money money makes makes money.
You don't need a $1000 meeting to solve a $100 problem.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The secret of success is sincerity; once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it's been.
The better the opportunity appears to be, the more likely it is you don't know all the facts.
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.
When money talks the truth is silent.
94.5% of all statistics are made up.
If I repent anything it is very likely to be my good behavior.
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.
Dare to be naive.
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
Much of what we call intelligence is nothing more than the ability to recognize patterns.
Knowledge is knowing. Wisdom is knowing and not saying.
Wisdom is learning what to ignore.
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.
If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a poor memory.
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
The biggest problem in Nashville is trying to find clean words that rhyme with "truck."
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; and there are so few of us left.
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
Learn to shoot yourself.
Thesaurus: Ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary.
Oy To The World
There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is that two and two may not make four.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Clairvoyant, n. A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron -- namely, that he is a blockhead.
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Evangelist, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbours.
Mammon (riches), n. The god of the world's leading religion.
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
We love to buy books because we believe we are buying the time to read them.
If walking on thin ice, why not dance?
God spoke to Balaam through his ass... I believe God still speaks through asses today...So if God should choose to speak through you -- you needn't think too highly of yourself.
The best way to lose something is to struggle to keep it.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
One of the most difficult things in the world is to know how to do something correctly, and to watch without comment, somebody else do it incorrectly.
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
A lot of people spend half their time wishing for things they could have if they didn't spend half their time wishing.
America: where there are ten million laws to enforce ten commandments.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going around saying, "The trouble with this country is...".
Antiques are the things one generation buys, the next generation gets rid of, and the following generation buys again.
Most people prove it's not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Few people really believe. Most only believe they believe, or make believe.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
Paradoxically, what intrudes between God and human beings is our fastidious morality and pseudo-piety. It is not the prostitutes and tax-collectors who find it most difficult to repent.
Civility is a willingness to promote the well-being of people who are very different, including people who seriously disagree with you on important matters.
Christianity has survived Christians for two thousand years now, which from my point of view is evidence that maybe something is going on there.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
One test is worth 1,000 expert opinions!
All things take place by change.
You can observe a lot by watching.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Study and, in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order to the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Real transformation is the opposite of self-improvement.
I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can still do.
If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself, you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned."
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and thus clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The receptive ability of the masses is very limited, their understanding small; on the other hand, they have a great power of forgetting.
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.
I have seen war. I hate war.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved on the same level we were at when we created them.
Do not believe in miracles - rely on them.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see better than he can think.
The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.
To be or not to be. (Shakespeare)
All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
If that had been intentional, I would be a comic genius. But it wasn't. And I'm not.
I like the idea of free elections. There is only one thing wrong with them: you don't know in advance how they will come out.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
If the meaning of life were printed in a book, someone would use it to keep the window open.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Hollywood? It's a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought.
He who laughs last probably didn't understand the joke.
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent.
The Programmers' Cheer: Shift to the left; Shift to the right! Pop up, push down, Byte, Byte, Byte!
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
Ah, it doesn't mean anything. It's like "Rama-Lama Ding Dong" or "Give Peace a Chance."
Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that he needs, not our plentitude.
The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
If you can talk, you can sing; if you can walk, you can dance.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Man plans; God laughs.
When elephants fight, the grass always is the one that suffers.
Wherever the heart is, the feet don't hesitate to go.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The beginning of health is to know the disease.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
If we ever forget that we're One Nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
Half of all advertising is a waste of money; we just don't know which half.
Jesus is coming soon. Look busy.
The more we thank God for what we have, the more we have to thank God for.
People who look down on others live on a bluff.
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
There are no amendments to the 10 commandments.
Madness in the name of God is still madness.
Experience is a hard teacher. It gives the test before the lesson.
Mud thrown is ground lost.
Talk only if you can improve the silence.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Smith & Wesson - the original point and click interface.
I had to google 'jfgi' to see what it meant. The irony is overwhelming.
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Analog-retentive - those people who obstinately cling to outmoded technology.
Dopeler Effect - the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Percussive Maintenance - the fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Questfallen - reaction to the realization that your MapQuest directions have failed you.
Wikiality - reality as defined by consensus, rather than analysis of objective fact.
Electile Dysfunction: The inability to become excited about any of the candidates for president.
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It's not that I'm surrounded by incompetence that bothers me, it's that I fit in so well.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
When he was told that Apple Computer had just bought a Cray to help design the next Apple Macintosh, Seymour Cray commented that he had just bought a Macintosh to design the next Cray.
Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all thumbs.
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics.
I don't like electrons; they've always had a negative influence on society.
Support bacteria, it's the only culture some people have.
Polaroids /nm./: what polar bears get from sitting on ice caps.
Math illiteracy strikes 8 out of 5 people.
I don't like numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
According to my calculations, this problem doesn't exist.
My math teacher staples Burger King applications to failed tests.
The optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist say the glass is half empty, the engineer says the glass is too large, the optometrist says the glasses are half-price and the thirsty guy says: 'Hey, who drank my water?'
The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you think even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Laughing is my favorite form of worship.
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
There are only two types of people and I'm not one of them.
Christianity is far more interested in the "gospel of being right" than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
No one goes there any more, it's too crowded.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on its head.
I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were so many people talking.
If you have trouble praying, talk to God about it.
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
The most undependable part on your car is the nut holding the wheel.
Experience is knowledge acquired too late.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You can observe a lot by watching.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
I hate quotations.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Old to soon and wise too late.
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
A witty saying proves nothing.
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
On the whole, human beings want to be good - but not too good and not quite all the time.
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
The Law of Daves: In any gathering of technical people, the number of Daves will be greater than the number of women.
The three phrases that best sum up the Christmas season are: "Peace on Earth", "Goodwill to Men," and "Batteries not included."
Multitasking: Screwing up several things at once.
Never attribute to malloc that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Computers may be stupid, but they're always obedient. Well, almost always.
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets.
Every cloud has a silver up the creek without a paddle horse.
cat /kat/ n. A furry keyboard cover
Cows in Space. The herd shot around the world.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Did you know human beings only use 20 percent of their brain?
Errors have occurred.
You! Off my planet!
Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.
Billboard on the side of the road: "Keep your eyes on the road and stop reading these signs."
I have no idea what's going on here, but it's quite entertaining.
Data potato doo-wop doo-wop
Kohler's Programming Axiom:
Feed the children. Save the whales. Free the mallocs.
I am Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.
> What's the opposite of 'omniscient'?
Is "for (a;b;c) {d;}" the same as "a; while(b) { d; c; }"?
No, Meestah Bond! I expect you to die!
Rolling stones in time save people in glass houses gathering too many cooks.
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
I foresee an bad spell of wether.
Stop trying to confuse me, why can't you find something challenging to do.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
If you must make mistakes, it is more to your credit to make a new one each time.
The bureaucracy is growing to support the needs of a growing bureaucracy.
Just because it's a pithy quote, doesn't mean it's correct.
Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?
I have two feet. One is a good number of bicycles for that.
If I was half as smart as I am dumb I would be a genius.
'A fool and his money are soon parted.' I'd pay someone a lot of money to explain that to me.
Some of you are naturally great thinkers. Some of you are naturally great doers. Those of you who are thinkers, you need to do more. Those of you who are doers, you need to think more. It's not one or the other. It's both-and.
The Church is full of innocent sheep, wayward sheep, bully sheep, and wolves in sheep's clothing.
If people really wanted to protest China they would boycott all the Chinese goods that we buy.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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