What is your favorite quote. List them here. I really like quotes and believe that people can learn a lot from them. So share one you made up or one(or more) that you have heard a lot or list one that you really believe in.


here is one of mine.

A person who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, a person who doesnt is a fool forever.;)

Better to keep quiet and let people think you a fool than to speak and make them certain.

"Those who think they know everything are a great bother to those of us that do." -Issac Asimov

Those who think something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi

Oh my grandfather had a ton, here is one that comes to mind:

"There are more horse's asses than horses in the world"

Another one he said about people with their bright lights on while driving....

"If you flash your brights at someone else who has them on, you'll have 2 driving jackasses who can't see!"

once again...
"A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work."

There are no problems, Only Solutions

I remember back in 9th grade we had to do a project on these, they are called maxims...

"Because I'm your grandfather, thats why!"

Ok ok, not really a maxim but he said it a lot....

see bellow.

I always liked BC's signature (at least it was his for a time):
"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."

(He said it was by Dick Brandon, don't know who that is, or if this is correct, but I'll assume so for the purpose of this post, heh).

Is a wonder that curiosity survives a formal education - Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible mystery is that the universe is comprehensible - Albert Einstein

He who stands upon the citadel, is the first to fall.

May bad luck follow you for the rest of your life, but never catch you.

Two more quotes:

Software is like sex -- it's better if RMS isn't involved.

White, Black, Grey, Red: Hacker, Cracker, Guru, Victim.

A bit more than a quote, but one of my favorites is an exchange between Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre in the film classic, "Casablanca."

Lorre (upon being double-crossed by Bogart and hauled away by police): "You hate me. Don't you, Rick?"

Bogart: "If I gave you any thought at all, I probably would."

Not very pedagogic or inspiring as quotes go, but bitingly funny.

There is nothing to fear at the bottom, for you won't live long enough to reach it.

Mountain Climbing and Bull Fighting and Motor Racing are the only true sports. All others, are just games.

- Earnest Hemmingway

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

HAHA..i always use to use this quote, which i think i got out a book in High School, used it alot when i was a young stud ;-)

"She who laughs in my face....will soon be in my embrace"

that quote worked a few times too! hehe

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. -Bruce Lee

The atom bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -David Henry Thoreau

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

News is something someone somewhere wants to supress, all the rest is advertising. -Lord Northcliffe

There are three types of people, those who can count, and those who can't.

"If you dont believe in oral sex, keep your mouth shut."

God is dead" -Nietschze, Nietschze is dead -God

Try imagining how far the universe extends, keep thinking about it until you go insane. -Steve Purcell


I think I got a little carried away. :D

"To the pessimist, the glass is half empty,
To the optimist, the glass is half full,
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be".
- Anonymous


That one still makes me laugh.

Here's a few good ones:

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. "
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. "
- Robert Orben

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. "
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. "
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

My personal favorite:

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
--Mark Twain

Funny:

'The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.'

Just when you see the light at the end of the tunnel -- somebody turns it off

Humpty Dumpty was Pushed!

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box
crashed ... Oh, wait a minute, he already does.

'This month is Farm Animal Awareness Week.'
It is also National Singles week. Please do NOT get the two mixed up.

How many ears does Mr. Spock have? Three, a left ear, a right
ear, and a final front ear.

Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a
revolving door.

Whoever said there is no such thing as a stupid question has
never worked in customer service.

"I'm not sure who he is, but I get the feeling he's got his hand
in a lot of things." - Kermit The Frog speaking about Jim Henson.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should
both be changed regularly and for the same reason.

I love the "swooshing" sound deadlines make as they go by.

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could
produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the
Internet, we know this is not true."
--Robert Wilensky


Inspirational:

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine
when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true
beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." (Elizabeth
Kubler-Ross)


A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles
in this manner: "Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." (George Bernard Shaw)

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never
been erected in honour of a critic. (unknown)

Some of mine favorites:

Sir Isaac Newton's famous line, "If I have been able to see further,
it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants."

Have you ever watched a young child build a tower out of blocks? It always
starts well - the first few blocks go up very nicely. But in the rush to
raise the tower, most kids forget to pay attention to those bottom blocks,
and before they know it, the whole thing has toppled over.
-Tim Wilson


Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when
you make it again. -- Franklin


Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.


In 1993 when George Fisher left Motorola to become President of Kodak, the
Times or Wall St Journal had a long article about him. He has a technical
or scientific degree from IIRC Princeton. He said, (paraphrase) the most
humbling experience for me as a technologist was the discovery that just by
changing the color of a pager you could double the sales.


Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that
went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell

Yesterday's idea of the boss, who became boss because he or she knew one
more fact than the person working for them, is yesterday's manager.
Tomorrow's person leads through a vision, a shared set of values, a shared
objective."
--- Jack Welch, General Electric CEO


One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
--- Nietzsche - On Gift Giving Virtue


New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other
reason but because they are not already common.
-- John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704)


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust.

Self-importance is the virtue of fools." - Albert Einstein

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of
doubts.
-Bertrand Russell

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand
the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation" - George
Washington, 1783

"Our faith in others betrays in what respect we would like to have faith in
ourselves." - Nietzsche

"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort
of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." - Helen Keller


What is necessary is never a risk.
- Cardinal de Retz

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-SAMUEL BUTLER

*§omewhere There'§ §omeone Who Dream§ Of Your §mile, And Find§ In Your Pre§ence That Life I§ Worth While, §o When You Are Lonely, Remember It'§ True: §omebody, §omewhere Is Thinking Of You*

-I never meant tø hurt yøu- -but- -yøu're pretty when yøu cry- -I never really løved yøu- -but- -I'm pretty when I lie-:stickout

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
-- Elvis Presley

I've got this one up on my wall. It helps me get through those tough days when it seems like the only thing that matters in the world is web hosting (wait, it's not?? ;) )

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world,
and no one will keep that light from shining.
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings,
but they cannot touch the foundation of America.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."

President George W. Bush 9/11/01

"Bloop, Floop, and Gloop are not trolls, talking ducks, or sounds made by a sinking ship."
-- Egbert B. Gebstatder, in Copper, Silver, Gold: An Indestructible Metallic Alloy

"What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em? - Calvin

My younger brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth--that most of us go to hell and burn eternally-- but I didn't want to upset him. --Age 10

Once, I wept for I had no shoes. Then I came upon a man who had no feet. So I took his hoes. I mean, it's not like he really needed them, right? -Age 15

If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, magine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. --Age 15

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

"we are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place. we have no great war, no great depression. our great war is a spiritual one, our great depression is our lives." - Tyler Durden

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-FDR

The only Microsoft product that wouldn't suck is a vacuum cleaner.

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

(most of these are from the Funnystuff mailing list at http://pbbt.com)

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

Well i guess you got that one wrong. over here they be charging people more for it at the SA then in the real stores

Another great quote:

"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" -- a past governor of Texas

Rational people try and adapt themselves to the world.
Irrational people try and adapt the world to themselves.
Thus, all progress is done by irrational people.
~Bernard Shaw

"Drive it like you stole it" - My friend Will.

Got me 2:

Sex is evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven, So Sex is IN!

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"If laws worked, there would be no crime." - Claire Wolfe

Originally posted by one_web
-I never meant tø hurt yøu- -but- -yøu're pretty when yøu cry- -I never really løved yøu- -but- -I'm pretty when I lie-:stickout

and the moon gives me
permission and I enter
through her eyes
she's losing her virginity and
all her will to compromise

:D I am so hooked on this band right now

Greg Moore

Not sure exactly how this goes, but I beleive it was voltaire's response to an objectionable letter:

"Dear sir, I am sitting in the smallest room in my house and I have your letter before me, soon, it will be behind me"

because i dream because i do
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this heared this in daweoo companies ad. but i liked it and fully believe in it. many people call me mad when I tell them about my computer imaginations.


:cartman:

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

:D

"You are gross and disgusting, oooooh that turns me on" ex gf

There is nothing permanent except change.