There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Asking for permission is seeking denial.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Well done is better than well said.
Luck is the residue of design.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand
things that won't work.
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering the farmer's
daughter.
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years,
the chances are you are doing it wrong.
If you're planning based on the customer, you're looking in a
rearview mirror. You're not looking ahead.
Again & again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is
only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of
participants.
90% of what is thought shouldn't be said;
90% of what is said shouldn't be written;
90% of what is written shouldn't be published;
90% of what is published shouldn't be read;
90% of what is read shouldn't be remembered.
Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half to believe.
The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be
wrong for more sophisticated reasons.
Mediocre people are very, very dangerous when they get together.
There's one thing they are not mediocre about, and that is fighting off people
who are superior.
And they make it appear that you've got to be a genius to be mediocre!
The number of people watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success!
"AT&T" is a modem test command.
"Maintenance-free" means that when it breaks, it can't be fixed.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the
process of putting them in.
Managing programmers is like herding cats.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
Furthermore, if you don't like any of them, you can just wait for next year's
model.
Some "computer proverbs" (from Ben Woodbridge, in rec.humor.funny, 14 Jun 1998):
I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel
when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going while you've still got them.
The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our
people need it sorely. Broad, wholesome, charitable views...can not be
acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of earth.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a
potato... the only good belonging to him is underground.
Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always
do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and
to let him know you trust him.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A fanatic is someone who does what he knows that God would do if God knew the facts of the case.
Acquaintance, n.:
A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well
enough to lend to.
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.
In each human heart there are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale.
Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
La politique est l'art d'empecher les gens de se meler de ce qui les regarde.
(Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which
properly concern them.)
We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What
does that mean? We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who
are rich.
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
true.
From "More Students' History of the World",
reported in "Anguished English" by Richard Lederer:
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William
Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564,
supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money
and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at
Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies,
comedies, and errors.
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Those who his company eschew
Complain, "His parting's overdue!"
While those who count his presence dear
Protest, "He was too briefly here!"
Still others mutter with a yawn,
"Oh, was he here? So, has he gone?"