quote-accomplish.txt "You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-achievement.txt "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." - Sir Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-action.txt "Action without thought is a form of insanity; thought without action is a crime." - Albert Einstein "Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction." - Harry Truman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-advantage.txt "We understand that the only competitive advantage the company of the future will have is its managers' ability to learn faster than then their competitors." - Arie de Geus (1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-advertizing.txt "Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need." - Will Rogers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-afghan.txt "Oh Lord Shiva, protect us from the fang of the cobra, the claw of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan." - old Hindu prayer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-agriculture.txt "The present form of agriculture, to which our biological agriculture is opposed, leads to the ruin of soil and health and will eventually bring about the death of humanity." - Professor Louis Kervran, France's former Minister of Health ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-aim.txt "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it's too low and we hit it." - Michelangelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-ak-47.txt "My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty." - Mikhail Kalashnikov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-alcohol-drugs.txt "Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person." - Marilyn vos Savant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-alive.txt "There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk." - Henrik Ibsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-amateur.txt "As long as I can earn enough to pay my taxes I'll be happy. I'm not a professional photographer you know, I'm an amateur. 'Amateur' is the French word for lover." - Imogen Cunningham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-anger.txt "Anger is a short madness." - Horace ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-anonymity.txt "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority." - U.S. Supreme Court Ruling, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-apology.txt In this light, consider G. H. W. Bush's defiant statement during the 1988 presidential campaign after a U.S. cruiser shot down an Iranian plane and killed 290 civilians: "I will never apologize for the United States of America, I don't care what the facts." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-argument.txt "I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me." - Dave Barry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-aristotle.txt "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well." - Aristotle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-army.txt "I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep, led by a lion, than I am of a hundred lions led by a sheep." - Talleyrand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-arrogance.txt "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud." - Sophocles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-artist.txt "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-art.txt "What anyone who speaks for art must be prepared to assert is the validity of nonscientific experience and the seriousness of unverifiable insight." - Wallace Stegner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-asimov.txt "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-assange.txt "With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his langorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit of no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain, icily detached from the real world of moral choices in which the rest of us saps live." - The Daily Beast, July 28, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-atom.txt "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." - Robert Millikan, Nobel prizewinner in physics, 1923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-atrocity.txt "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-attack.txt "Attack is the secret of defence: defence is the planning of an attack." - Sun Tzu "The only way you can win a war is to attack and keep on attacking, and after you have done that, keep attacking some more." - General George Patton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-attitude.txt "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-backup-torvalds.txt "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-banking.txt "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford "I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization." - Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-battle.txt "The Victorious army wins first and then seeks battle. The Defeated army battles first and then seeks victory." - Sun Tzu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-beatles.txt "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Response to the Beatles' music, by the giant American recording company Decca Records, 1962 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-beer.txt "Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." - Arnold Schwarzenegger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-believe.txt "The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly." - William Bernbach ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-benjamin-franklin.txt "By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-be.txt "To be is to be perceived." - philosopher Heger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-bicycling.txt "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." - Ernest Hemingway "The steel horse fills a gap in modern life, it is an answer not only to its needs, but also to its aspirations. It's quite certainly here to stay." - Le Vélocipède Illustré, 1869 "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live." - Mark Twain "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H. G. Wells "Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride." - John F. Kennedy "Cycling is just like church—many attend, but few understand." - Jim Burlant "When I was on the national cycling team, I was harassed endlessly for my 180mm cranks. Now I use 203mm and love them!" - Lennard Zinn "I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again." - Michelle Pfeiffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-binary.txt "There are 10 kinds of people—those who understand binary, and those who don't." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-biotechnology.txt "I'm sure there's a lot of people frightened... biotechnology is a long word and it sounds... they may say, well, I don't know if I'm smart enough to be in biotechnology, or it sounds too sophisticated to be in biotechnology." - President George W. Bush, 7 November 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-bleeding.txt "If it bleeds, we can kill it." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator, 1987) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-boredom.txt "The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." - Saul Steinberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-brain.txt "The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you’re born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public." - George Jessel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-bread-circuses.txt "The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease. The moral decay of the people was not caused by the doles and the games. These merely provided a measure of their degradation. Things that were originally good had become perverted and, as Shakespeare reminds us, 'Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.'" - Ben Moreell, _Of Bread and Circuses_ (1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-bright.txt "Light moves faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." - Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-bubble.txt "While I am not going to say that there is no possibility of house pricing declining... the notion of a bubble bursting and the whole price level coming down seems to me as far as a nationwide type of phenomenon really quite unlikely." - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-bugs.txt "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-business.txt "Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - Karl Marx "I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man." - Jay-Z ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-camera.txt "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-capslock.txt HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! try pressing the the Caps Lock key O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!! fuck me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-care.txt "They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Zig Ziglar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-car.txt "The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad." - President of the Michigan Savings Bank, advising against investment in the Ford Motor Company, 1905 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-caution.txt "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-cell-phones.txt "Cell phones are tracking devices that make phone calls." - Jacob Appelbaum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-central-banks.txt "A portfolio built to only withstand stress thanks to central bank intervention is one destined to blow-up spectacularly." - Richard Breslow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-challenge.txt "Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - General George Patton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-chance.txt "Chance and uncertainty are two of the most common and most important elements in warfare." - Carl von Clausewitz, _On War_, 1832 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-change.txt "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-character.txt "Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." - Henry Clay "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein "Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day." - Heinrich Heine "Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." - Alphonse Karr "Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended." - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it." - Mahomet II, the Great "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "Character is much easier kept than recovered." - Thomas Paine "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." - Alexander Pope "Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence." - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter "The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character." - Joseph Alexandre Pierre, Vicomte de Segur "Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait." - Horace Smith and James Smith "The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed." - Madame de Stael "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-chess-politics.txt "My friend, chess is better left to the machines, and politics—to people of ordinary intellect." - Gary Kasparov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-clarity.txt "Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound strive for obscurity." - Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-climate-change.txt "We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?" - Phil Jones, developer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change temperature history, in a letter to Australian climatologist Warrick Hughes, February 21, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-code.txt "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-commodity.txt "Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value." - Lazarus Long ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-common-sense.txt "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein "There is no common sense without common knowledge, and there is no common knowledge with regard to general computer concepts." - Ira Winkler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-communication.txt "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw "If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help." - John F. Kennedy "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." - Joseph Priestley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-company.txt "Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-compete.txt "If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete." - Jack Welch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-computer-specialist.txt "In one inquiry it was found that a successful team of computer specialists included an ex-farmer, a former tabulating machine operator, an ex-key punch operator, a girl who had done secretarial work, a musician and a graduate in mathematics. The last was considered the least competent." - Hans Albert Rhee, _Office Automation in a Social Perspective_, 1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-computer.txt "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-conceit.txt "For some people, unfortunately, intellectual conceit and convenient ignorance are more powerful forces than honesty and prosperity." - Juan Ramón Rallo Julián (http://mises.org/story/3251) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-concentrate.txt "Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces." - Marilyn vos Savant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-conformity.txt "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-conquer.txt "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams (1735-1826) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-consensus.txt "Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period." - Michael Crichton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-consideration.txt "No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in his plans, it is occasionally necessary to take the enemy into consideration." - Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-consumption.txt "In rich countries today, consumption consists of people spending money they don't have to buy goods they don't need to impress people they don't like." - anon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-convince.txt "If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry S. Truman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-corruption.txt "Corruptissima republica plurimae leges." [The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.] - Publius Cornelius Tacitus ca. AD 69 "If you make ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law." - Winston Churchill "Corruption is an evil inherent in every government not controlled by a watchful public opinion." - Ludwig von Mises ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-courage-conformity.txt "In modern society, the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity." - Rollo May, American psychologist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-courage.txt "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "The great need for anyone in authority is courage." - Alistair Cooke "Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. - Mark Twain "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-crazy.txt "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-creativity.txt "To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood vision and dreams." - Giorgio de Chirico "If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original." - Ken Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-credit.txt "There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-criticism.txt "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." — Elbert Hubbard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-crook.txt "I am not a crook" - Richard Nixon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-cryptography.txt "In words from history, let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography." - Edward Snowden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-c.txt "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-cyber-systems.txt "Your cyber systems continue to function and serve you not due to the expertise of your security staff but solely due to the sufferance of your opponents." - NSA Information Assurance Director Brian Snow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-dangerous.txt "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-dead-horse.txt Riding a Dead Horse The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In modern education and government, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Threatening the horse with termination. 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 5. Visiting other sites to see how others ride dead horses. 6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 7. Re-classifying the dead horse as “living, impaired”. 8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed. 10. Attempting to mount multiple dead horses in hopes that one of them will spring to life. 11. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance. 12. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance. 13. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses. 14. Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses. 15. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-deadline.txt "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-death.txt "That's what makes death so hard - unsatisfied curiosity." - Beryl Markham "I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger." - Mencius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-debate.txt "When we're debating an issue, being loyal to me means giving me your opinion whether you think I'll like it or not. At this point, disagreement stimulates me. But after the decision has been made, the debate ends. From this point on, being loyal to me means getting behind the decision and executing it as if it were your own." - Colin Powell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-debt.txt "Debt is the slavery of the free." - Publilius Syrus, Roman aphorist, 42 BC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-decision.txt "When making a decision in vital matters, such as choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves." - Sigmund Freud ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-defence.txt "The best defence is vigilance." - Arthur J. Shawcross (the Monster of the Rivers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-delaying.txt "If you put off your pursuit of knowledge for a suitable moment, that moment will never come. If you delay a task until conditions are favorable, favorable conditions will never arise." - Dale Salwak, _Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-democracy.txt "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice, adviser to President Woodrow Wilson "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." - H.L. Mencken _Notes on Democracy_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-desperation.txt "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-dirty-joke.txt "A dirty joke is not a serious attack upon morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise." - George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-disarm.txt "When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred." - Niccolo Machiavelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-discovery.txt "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust "Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking what no one has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-discuss.txt "Men and women were divided into three classes mentally. The first and lowest class talk of persons; the second talk about things; the third and highest about ideas." - Henry Thomas Buckle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-dispositions.txt "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." - Martha Washington ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-diversify.txt "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." - Warren Buffett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-doing.txt "The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese proverb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-double-negatives.txt "A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field." - George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-dreaming.txt "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." - Lawrence of Arabia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-dreams.txt "A man will never do everything he dreams, but he will never do anything he doesn't dream." - William James, American psychologist, philosopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-drugs.txt "I never took drugs because I /am/ drugs." - Salvador Dalí ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-early-bird.txt "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-easy.txt "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." - Bjarne Stroustrup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-economist.txt "Economists tend not to be very good at economics. We know this because almost none of them were able to see the $8 trillion housing bubble that was driving the economy from 2002 to 2007. This was an oversight of astonishing importance, sort of like a physicist not noticing gravity." - Dean Baker "If all the economists of the world were laid end to end, it wouldn’t be a bad thing." - Peter Lynch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-education.txt "The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him, the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not." - Charles Buxton "I never let school interfere with my education." - Mark Twain "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt "Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn "We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes." - Senate Committee on Education and Labor, 1885 "It is natural businessmen should seek to influence the enactment and administration of laws, national and international, and that they should try to control education." - Max Otto, 1949 "The apparent purpose of education is to convince two thirds of the students that they really are stupid." - Edward de Bono "Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished." - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, head of philosophy & psychology at Prussian University in Berlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-einstein-counts.txt "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-einstein-curiosity.txt "Curiosity is a small and fragile plant that requires above all, freedom." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-einstein-insanity.txt "There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-einstein-intuition.txt "The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-einstein-problem.txt "The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-einstein-research.txt "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." — Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-embarrass.txt "You cannot embarrass me. It's unbelievable. I've been like this my whole life." - Cameron Diaz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-empty-head.txt "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head." - Eric Hoffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-enemies.txt "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-engineer.txt "If I sit here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an engineer working on something." - S.R. McElroy, a.s.r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-envy.txt "What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by their good fortune." - Montesquieu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-ethical.txt "It would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that efficacy had not been demonstrated, as this would undermine the profile of paroxetine [Paxil]." - GlaxoSmithKline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-euro.txt "The euro is not economic at all. It is a completely political step... the historic significance of the euro is to construct a bi-polar economy in the world. The two poles are the dollar and the euro. That is the political meaning of the single European currency. It is a step beyond which there will be others. The euro is just an antipasto." - Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission to CNN, 1 January 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-evil.txt "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Unknown ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-experience.txt "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde "Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes." - Froude ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-expert.txt "The expert's greatest weakness lies in the fact that he is called as an expert and is most reluctant to admit that he doesn't know all that is knowable about the subject to which he is called to testify." ―Edward Huntington Williams, _The Doctor in Court_, 1929 "Experts should be on tap, not on top." - Sir Winston Churchill "If it comes to a traditional tank battle, better let the experts handle it. Best thing a civilian can do is disappear." - Marine Major Tim Stevens "When you seek a new path to truth, you must expect to find it blocked by expert opinion." - Albert Guérard "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.” - Niels Bohr "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice." - James Callaghan "As the global recession began in 2008, the Greek economy featured high levels of public debt, a large trade deficit, undiversified industries, an o verextended public sector, militant trade unions, widespread corruption, uneven payment of taxes, an overvalued currency, consumers expecting rising living standards and euro membership based on inaccurate data. Yet in February 2009, the European Union's economics commissioner Joaquin Almunia observed: 'The Greek economy is in better condition compared with the average condition in the eurozone, which is currendy in recession.'" - Jason Manolopoulos, _Greece's 'Odious' Debt_ (2011) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-facts.txt "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-failure.txt "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-faith.txt "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzshe "'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzshe "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." - James Stockdale ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fanatic.txt "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fate.txt "To sit back and let fate play its hand out, and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate." - John Glenn, astronaut, U.S. senator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fear.txt "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt "I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carnegie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fedex.txt "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." - A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fellow_men.txt "It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring." - Alfred Adler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fight.txt "When it comes to a fight, it's not who's right, but who's left." - Ed Parker "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-finance.txt "About every ten years, we have the biggest crisis in fifty years." - Paul Volcker, Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fire.txt "It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't." - Harvey Mackay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-flattery.txt "Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you." - General Alvaro Obregon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fluoridation.txt "Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time." - Robert Carton, Ph.D., a former EPA scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fool.txt "A wise man knows his own ignorance. A fool knows everything." - Charles Simmons "The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him." - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-force.txt "Excessive use of force comes from repeatedly trying to apply ineffective control techniques." - Masaad Ayoob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-forecast.txt "There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know that they don't know." - John Kenneth Galbraith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-foreign-aid.txt "We must comprehend that it is impossible to improve the economic conditions of the underdeveloped nations by grants in aid. If we send them foodstuffs to fight famines, we merely relieve their governments from the necessity of abandoning their disastrous agricultural policies." - Ludwig von Mises "Economic achievement depends on personal, cultural, social, and political factors ... and the policies of ... rulers. It diminishes the people of the Third World to suggest that ... unlike the people of the West they cannot achieve it without subsidies." - Peter Bauer, _The Development Frontier_ (1991) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-foreign-exchange-market.txt "The high technology and the elaborate financial instruments in the foreign exchange and money markets are no more the expression of a high degree of market development than the increased sophistication of burglar alarms is evidence of a greater degree of public security." - John Laughland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-forgive.txt "The naive both forgive and forget; the stupid neither forgive nor forget; the angered forget but do not forgive; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Ashok Aggarwal "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-fortune.txt "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen, _Pride and Prejudice_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-freedom.txt "There is something uniform about the human race. Most of them have to work for the greater part of their lives in order to live and the little freedom they have left frightens them to such an extent that they will stop at nothing to rid themselves of it. Nothing has ever been more unendurable to man than freedom." - Fyodor Dostoevsky "Any system that does not uphold the value of freedom of individuals, however lowly, will miss most of the greatest technical and economic breakthroughs." - George Gilder "When nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?" - Charles Bukowski ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-friend.txt "If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." - Abraham Lincoln "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible." - Henry Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-future.txt "The future is already here... it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson "The future has many names. For the weak it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity." - Victor Hugo "If you want to predict the future, create it." - Peter F. Drucker "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas J. Watson, former chairman of IBM "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, founder and president of Digital Equipment Corp "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-gandhi.txt Seven Social Sins Politics Without Principles Wealth Without Work Commerce Without Morality Education Without Character Pleasure Without Conscience Science Without Humanity Worship Without Sacrifice Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-generalizations.txt "All generalizations are dangerous, even this one." - Alexandre Dumas Fils ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-genius.txt "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework." - Thomas Edison "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." - Albert Einstein "Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses you." - Buckminster Fuller "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-george_w._bush.txt "I do not like broccoli and I haven't liked it since I was a little kid. I am President of the United States and I am not going to eat it anymore." - George W. Bush ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-global-warming.txt "I am a skeptic... Global warming has become a new religion." — Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever "Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly... As a scientist I remain skeptical." — Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson "Warming fears are the 'worst scientific scandal in the history... When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.'" — U.N. I.P.C.C. Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-gold.txt "The chaos that one day will ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value. We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than dollars or euros. The sooner the better." - Ron Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-government.txt "Government is the only agency that can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless." ―Ludwig von Mises "What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it." - G.W.F. Hegel "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" - Ronald Reagan "The primary purpose for government is to be a vehicle for the rich to get their hands into our pockets.” - Buckminster Fuller "Governments don’t know, and don’t want to know, that the only successful fixing of exchange rates occurred, not coincidentally, in the era of the gold standard." - Murray Rothbard "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire "There is no 'human rights issue' in this country, as everyone leads the most dignified and happy life." - North Korean Central News Agency, 6 March 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-great-depression.txt "Federal Reserve inflation during the 1920s, combined with economic interventionism by both Republican and Democratic administrations, caused and perpetuated the Great Depression of the 1930s." - Ron Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-greens.txt "If the Greens choose to use less energy, God bless them. Let them go squat around some jungle fire in a loincloth, eating half-cooked monkey meat. But somehow, this prospect does not appear to please them. Somehow, they will be happy only if they can impose energy-deficient poverty on ME." - Vin Suprynowicz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-gun_control.txt "That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi "Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You'll pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins." - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia hit man "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." - Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the "Educating Heart Summit" in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason "Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence." - Mahatma Gandhi "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson "Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life." - Pope John Paul II "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud "Even though most people do not carry guns, the mere possibility that an intended victim could be armed with a handgun eliminates millions of crimes every year." - Robert H. Boatman "The rights of ordinary people thrive at those times when common citizens are well armed against the incursions of their own government—liberty declines precipitously when arms are denied the commonality." - Carroll Quigley, _Tragedy and Hope_ "Weapons compound man’s power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters—and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." - Col. Jeff Cooper "A pistol defends your property and your person from unanticipated and barely anticipated threats from thieves and robbers. With it, you can control your immediate environment. A rifle defends your freedom from oppressors and tyrants. With it, you can enforce your will." - Gabe Suarez "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - George Washington "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." - Robert A. Heinlein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-habit.txt "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson "Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities." - Aldous Huxley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-hackers.txt "I think that hackers--dedicated, innovative, irreverent computer programmers--are the most interesting and effective body of intellectuals since the framers of the U.S. Constitution... No other group that I know of has set out to liberate a technology and succeeded. They not only did so against the active disinterest of corporate America, their success forced corporate America to adopt their style in the end. In reorganizing the Information Age around the individual, via personal computers, the hackers may well have saved the American economy... The quietest of all the '60s sub-subcultures has emerged as the most innovative and powerful." - Stewart Brand (Founder, Whole Earth Catalog) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-half-truth.txt "We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations." - Frédéric Bastiat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-hang.txt "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-happiness.txt "Happiness is how much you like the life you're living." - Ruut Veerhoven "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer "Pleasure is the happiness of madmen, while happiness is the pleasure of sages." - Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi "People are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank "The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours." - Henry James "Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can." - Shawn Achor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-harm.txt "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." - T. S. Elliot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-help.txt "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear." - Thomas Sowell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-hiking.txt "Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee. Sometimes old people hike by mistake." — Demitri Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-history.txt "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." - George Bernard Shaw "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the alternatives." - Abba Eban ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-hit.txt "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - Theodore Roosevelt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-honest.txt "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." - Cardinal Richelieu "As you travel down life's highway, whatever your goal, you cannot sell a doughnut without acknowledging the hole." - Harold J. Shayler "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." - climate scientist Kevin Trenberth "Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest." - Benjamin Franklin "Being honest might not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right ones." - John Lennon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-housing_bubble.txt "There is always a bubble someplace. In a world of fiat currency and fractional-reserve banking, where money is effortlessly multiplied and pyramided, the sequence of boom and bust become inevitable, like the sequence of the seasons. In this system, the government cannot prevent the expected corrections anymore than it can prevent the onset of winter. The strong housing market has all the makings of being the next bubble — in particular high leverage and unsustainable price increases." - Christopher Mayer, 2003 http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=450 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-humanity.txt "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever." - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, founding father of rocket science, 1911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-human_voice.txt "The human voice is the organ of the soul." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-humor.txt "Humor is in the eye of the beholder. Some beholders are flat-out blind." - Dwight "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Sir Francis Bacon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-hurrying.txt "Most men pursue pleasure in such breathless haste they hurry right past it." - Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1813-1855) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-hypocrisy.txt "No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders." - President Barack Obama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-idea.txt "Every time a man puts a new idea across, he finds ten men who thought of it before he did, but they only thought of it." - Anonymous "In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected ideas." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Joseph Stalin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-idol.txt "By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves... we fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise." - Charles V. Willie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-ignorance.txt "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance." - Amos Bronson Alcott "He that is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge." - Richard Whately "In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees." - Thomas Sowell "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned." - Mark Twain "Everyone is ignorant, just in different subjects." - Will Rogers "From knowledge to competence it is a big step; from ignorance to competence, a bigger one still." - Hans von Seeckt "When the radius of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of ignorance." - Albert Einstein "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." - Bertrand Russell "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin, _The Descent of Man_ (1871) "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." — Isaac Asimov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-impossible.txt "Difficult things take a long time; the impossible takes a little longer." - Chaim Weizmann "Nothing is more impossible than to write a book that wins every reader's approval." - Miguel de Cervantes "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Clarke's First Law ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-income.txt "There is nothing as depressing as a small but adequate income." - Oscar Wilde ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-incompetence.txt "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." - Laurence J. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-individuation.txt "If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption." - Carl Jung ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-inferior.txt "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-inflation.txt "What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation. This semantic innovation is by no means harmless." - Ludwig von Mises "Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe." - Ludwig von Mises "Inflation can be pursued only so long as the public still does not believe it will continue. Once the people generally realize that the inflation will be continued on and on and that the value of the monetary unit will decline more and more, then the fate of the money is sealed. Only the belief, that the inflation will come to a stop, maintains the value of the notes." - Ludwig von Mises "The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters." - Ludwig von Mises "The pretended solicitude for the nation's welfare, for the public in general, and for the poor ignorant masses in particular was a mere blind. The governments wanted inflation and credit expansion, they wanted booms and easy money." - Ludwig von Mises "With inflation alone can a government extinguish debt without repayment, or wage war and engage in other non-productive activities on a large scale: it is still not recognized as a tax by the tax-payer." - Gunter Schmolders "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation." - Alan Greenspan "When it comes to inflation, the main thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Paul Krugman, 2006 "One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism. Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obvious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier." - Ludwig von Mises, 1919 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-insanity.txt "Insanity is hereditary: You can get it from your children." - Sam Levinson, American actor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-instinct.txt "The strongest instinct in human beings is the need to look at the familiar." - Virginia Satir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-institution.txt "But it is obvious to me that when you staff an institution with a disproportionate number of individuals coming from one discipline, you run the risk of having a one-dimensional institution." - Steve Berkman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-integrity.txt "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson "Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will." - Oliver Cromwell "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-intellect.txt "When you look at the mistakes of the 1920s and 1930s, they were clearly amateurish. It is hard to imagine that happening again–we understand the business cycle much better." - Professor Gregory Mankiw, before the NASDAQ collapse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-intelligence.txt "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Crack-Up, 1936) "Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point." - Robert Anton Wilson "Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places." - Garrison Keillor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-intercourse.txt "The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours." - Henry James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-interest.txt "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn’t... pays it." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-intuition.txt "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-invented.txt "Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles Duell, commissioner of the United States Office of Patents in a letter to US President McKinley, 1899 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-jews.txt "Bob, please get me the names of the Jews, you know, the big Jewish contributors of the Democrats. ... Could we please investigate some of the cocksuckers?" - Richard Nixon, 1971 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-job.txt "I think a person who takes a job in order to live, that is to say, just for the money, has turned himself into a slave." - Joseph Campbell "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-judgement.txt "When people learn no tools of judgement and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulations are sown." - Stephen J. Gould "I can predict the motions of the planets, but not the limits of human folly." - Sir Isaac Newton "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-kernighan.txt "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-keynesian.txt "In my opinion, the new point of view, which its proponents call the 'New Economics,' or the 'Keynesian Revolution,' has done great harm to students whom I have seen fall victim to it. Even now, I believe, it is destroying the foundations of our nation." - Vervon Orval Watts (1952) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-kissinger.txt "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-knowledge.txt "When the radius of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of ignorance." - Albert Einstein "Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge." - Matthew Arnold "Information is not knowledge. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein "I have nothing at all against well-trained, knowledgeable Indian technical support. I hope to speak to one before I retire." --JW, ASR "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin "Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom." - Hermann Hesse "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Henry David Thoreau "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-know.txt "Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know." - Eric Hoffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-labor.txt "Wages are not paid for labor expended, but for the achievements of labor, which differ widely in quality and quantity." - Ludwig von Mises ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-laughter.txt "Laughter is the quickest route between two people." - Victor Borge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-law.txt "A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law." ―Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-leadership.txt "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him; worst when they despise him." - Lao Tzu, 630 BC "Leadership is character and competence. If you can only have one, opt for character." - H. Norman Schwarzkopf "Leadership is about character... Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing." - Warren Bennis "Leadership is not rank, privileges, titles, or money. It is responsibility." - Peter Drucker "When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did it ourselves'." - Lao Tzu (500s BC) "Leadership includes two components: competence and character. Ninety-nine percent of the failure in leadership is because of a failure in character rather than competence." - Norman Schwarzkopf "You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "To lead the people, walk behind them." - Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism "You young lieutenants have to realize that your platoon is like a piece of spaghetti. You can't push it. You've got to get out front and lead it." - General George Patton "Either lead, follow or get out of the way." - Raymond G Viault "In a country that is ruled well, it is a shame to be poor, but in a country that is lead poorly, it is a shame to be wealthy." - Confucius "The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve the leader, but the number of people served by the leader." - John Maxwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-learning.txt "Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as if you would be in fear of losing it." - Confucius "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-legs.txt "How long man's legs ought to be?" "Long enough to reach the ground." - Abraham Lincoln ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-leisure.txt "Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered." - William Russell "He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-lewinsky.txt ...when asked if he had been in President Clinton's place during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, would he have resigned? "If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be laying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn thing?" - Representative Dick Armey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-liberty.txt "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin "If you campaign for liberty you're likely to find yourself drinking in bad company at the wrong end of the bar." - Whit Diffie "Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free." - Alexander Hamilton, 1787 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-lies.txt "Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be." - Adrienne Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-life.txt "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin, real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Father Alfred D'Souza "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations." - Robert Cavett, American writer "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers, American comic "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." - Mark Twain "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat." - Henry David Thoreau "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." - Henry David Thoreau "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Henry David Thoreau "There are two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein "He who has a /why/ to live can bear with almost any /how/." - Friedrich Nietzshe "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain "People don’t die of old age, they die of neglect." - Jack LaLanne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-liking.txt "The main work of a trial attorney is to make a jury like his client." - Clarence Darrow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-linux-knuth.txt http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 "I trust my family jewels only to Linux." - Donald Knuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-linux.txt "The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash [... that] reminds me of communism. [...] Linux [is like] organic software grown in utopia by spiritualists [...] When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores – the Open Sores Movement. When [Windows 2000] gets here, goodbye Linux." - Robert Metcalfe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-listening.txt "Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time." - Malcolm Forbes "If people listened to themselves more often, they would talk a lot less." - Edward A. Murphy, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-lying.txt "I'm not upset that you lied to me; I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." - Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-majority.txt "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?" - Robert Heinlein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-marketing.txt "Every marketer's dream is to find an unidentified or unknown market and develop it. That's what we were able to do with social anxiety disorder." - Barry Brand, Paxil's product director ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-market-research.txt "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." - Henry Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-marriage.txt "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." - John Steinbeck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-masturbation.txt "Masturbation is the thinking man's television." - Christopher Hampton, 1970 "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." - Woody Allen, 1977 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-mathematics.txt "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - Johann von Neumann "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." - Robert A. Heinlein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-medicine.txt "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-memory.txt "Everyone has a photographic memory... some just don't have film." - Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-microsoft-ethics.txt "The Commission has never before had to issue two periodic penalty payments in a competition case..." - EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-microsoft.txt "Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy that the commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an antitrust decision." - EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-mind.txt "The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests." - Albert Jay Nock "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-minority.txt "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - "Samuel Adams" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-misery.txt "If misery loves company, misery has company enough." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-mistakes.txt "We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield." - George Orwell (1946) "A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers." - Lao Tzu "A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-money.txt "Money doesn’t talk, it swears." - Bob Dylan "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford "We have no money so we will have to think." - Lord Rutherford "A woman's test is material. A man's test is a woman... if a man could fuck in a cardboard box, he wouldn't buy a house." - Rabbi Dave Chappelle "Coinage is imprinted gold or silver, by which the prices of things bought and sold are reckoned... It is therefore a measure of values. A measure, however, must always preserve a fixed and constant standard. Otherwise, public order is necessarily disturbed, with buyers and sellers being cheated in many ways, just as if the yard, bushel, or pound did not maintain an invariable magnitude." - Nicholas Copernicus, "Treatise on Debasement", 1517 "The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and consequences, and silence by their authority the interested clamors and sophistry of speculating, shaving, and banking institutions. Till then, we must be content to return quo ad hoc to the savage state, to recur to barter in the exchange of our property for want of a stable common means of value, that now in use being less fixed than the beads and wampum of the Indian, and to deliver up our citizens, their property and their labor, passive victims to the swindling tricks of bankers and mountebankers." - Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, March 1819 "We all 'ate' the money together." - Greece Deputy Prime Minister Theodore Pangalos, to Parliament, when asked where the public money had all gone, September 2010 "The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority." - Bill Clinton at the signing of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999 (which ended Glass-Steagall and gave banks full control of the United States of America) "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ZERO." - Voltaire, 1729 "It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money." - Albert Camus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-morality.txt "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-motivation.txt "An animal without motivation is not a nonmotivated animal... it is a corpse!" - J. R. Blackburn (1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-needs.txt "Who seeks more than he needs, hinders himself from enjoying what he has. Seek what you need and give up what you need not. For in giving up what you don't need, you'll learn what you really do need." - Solomon Ibn Gabirol, an eleventh-century Spanish poet-philosopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-negotiation.txt "In a negotiation you don't get what is owed to you, but what you can bargain for." - Raymond Saner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-neurotypical.txt "Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity. Neurotypical individuals often assume that their experience of the world is either the only one, or the only correct one. NTs find it difficult to be alone. NTs are often intolerant of seemingly minor differences in others. When in groups NTs are socially and behaviourally rigid, and frequently insist upon the performance of dysfunctional, destructive, and even impossible rituals as a way of maintaining group identity. NTs find it difficult to communicate directly, and have a much higher incidence of lying as compared to persons on the autistic spectrum." - Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical, http://isnt.autistics.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-new-idea.txt "The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein. It rejects it." - Sir Peter Medawar, British zoologist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-newspaper.txt "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-nigger.txt "I ain’t got no beef with any VC [Viet Cong]. No VC ever called me nigger." - Muhammed Ali ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-normal.txt "Who wants to be normal? We want to be exceptional; exceptions confirm what is not normal." - Angil Spassov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-obama.txt 2008: "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial." 2011: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden." - Barack Obama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-occams_razor.txt "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate." - William of Occam (Plurality should not be posited without necessity.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-offer.txt "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." - Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-old-age.txt "To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love." - Charles-Victor de Bonstettin (1867-1947) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-oops.txt "Nothing says 'oops' like a wall of flame." - Marion Winik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-opportunity.txt "We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralysed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity." - Walter E. Cole, Korean War hero "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-optimism.txt "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry S. Truman "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use to be anything else." - Winston Churchill "Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity." - Robert Kennedy "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder." - Ronald Reagan "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears." - John McCain "I am in politics because of the struggle between good and evil. I believe that in the end good will triumph." - Margaret Thatcher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-oral-sex.txt "Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks, or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." - Barbara Bush ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-os-prices.txt "In high school economics I was taught that when something goes into mass production, the cost of production decreases. So why is it that software keeps getting more expensive as more people buy it?" - Stephen Smoliar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-painting.txt "Painting is no problem; the problem is what to do when you're not painting." - Jackson Pollack, American artist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-paris-hilton.txt "...Paris Hilton, the celebrity heiress and beloved cut-up whose fornication video has been a staple of the American male imagination since its release to the world." - John Taylor Gatto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-passion.txt "Without passion you don't have energy; without energy you have nothing." - Donald Trump "Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-path.txt "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-pc.txt "What we have done with PCs so far is not natural." - Craig Mundie, CTO Microsoft ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-peace.txt "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." - Moshe Dayan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-perfect-moment.txt "If you wait for the perfect moment, when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won or lasting happiness achieved." - Maurice Chevalier, French actor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-phd.txt "Before a PhD: I don’t know. After a PhD: That is outside the scope of my current knowledge." - @saahirshafi on Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-photograph.txt "If your photographs aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." - Robert Capa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-photography.txt "Amateurs worry about gear; professionals worry about money; masters worry about light." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-pigeon.txt "Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up." - Confucius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-plan.txt "A good plan violently executed now is better than the perfect plan next week." - General George Patton "In preparing for battle, plans are useless but planning is indispensable." - Dwight Eisenhower "How about those people in Kilauea, Hawaii who build their homes right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room?" - George Carlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-pleasure.txt "The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." - Aristotle "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-plunder.txt "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-polar-exploration.txt "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has yet been devised." — Cherry-Garrard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-police.txt "A policeman's job is only easy in a police state." - Orson Welles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-politeness.txt "Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying." - Mary Wilson Little ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-political-ideas.txt "Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments, they must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe." - Ludwig Von Mises ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-politics.txt "There are two things you don’t want to see being made—sausage and legislation." - Otto von Bismark (1815-1898) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-ponzi-finance.txt "Over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is a large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance... The greater the weight of speculative and Ponzi finance, the smaller the overall margins of safety in the economy and the greater the fragility of the financial structure." - Hyman Minsky, 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-poor.txt "...everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious." - Arthur Young, 1771 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-powerpoint.txt "PowerPoint makes us stupid." - Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander "It's dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control." - Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war." - General Stanley A. McChrystal, a leader in Afghanistan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-power.txt "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins." - William Pitt the Elder, 1770 "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton, 1887 "You can give a man office, but you can’t give him discretion." - Ben Franklin "You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything from them." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave." - Arnold Schwarzenegger "The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing." - Herodotus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-prejudice.txt "Travel is fatal to prejudice." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-pretend.txt "A man is at his worst when he pretends to be good." - Publius Syrius, 100 BC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-privacy.txt "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." - Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-problem-solving.txt "The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-problems.txt "There are no problems—only opportunities to be creative." - Dorye Roettger "A short-term approach to long-term problems generates multiple short-term plans that confuse activity with progress." - General Rupert Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-programmers.txt "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." - Gerald Weinberg, 1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-public-education.txt "The erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else." - H. L. Mencken, 1924 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-public-opinion.txt "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." - G. W. Hegel, German philosopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-public-policy.txt "The assumption that public policy has often been inefficient because it was based on mistaken views has little to commend it. To believe, year after year, decade after decade, that the protective tariffs or usury laws to be found in most lands are due to confusion rather than purposeful action is singularly obfuscatory." - George Stigler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-qnp.txt "Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. "Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans." - Robert F. Kennedy, 1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-quality.txt "You cannot fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal." - William S. Burroughs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-questions.txt "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." - Voltaire "No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." - Charles Steinmetz "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-quiet.txt "Quiet people have the loudest minds." - Stephen Hawking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-radio.txt "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" - an investor in response to David Sarnoff’s push for radio, 1920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-random-numbers.txt "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." - Robert R. Coveyou "Everything we do to achieve privacy and security in the computer age depends on random numbers." - Simon Cooper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-ransom.txt "I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, then I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren." - J. Paul Getty, explaining his refusal to pay a random ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-rat-race.txt "The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win, you are still a rat." - Lily Tomlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-read-books.txt "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain "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." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-reality.txt "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away." - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-reason.txt "A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." - J. P. Morgan "I'm not to listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has to say." - Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer "He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave." - William Drummond "Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily." - Confucius "Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with." - James Anthony Froude ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-relax.txt "I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again." - Michelle Pfeiffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-religion.txt "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-repeating.txt "Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them." - Dottie Walters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-reputation.txt "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-respect.txt "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" - Confucius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-rich.txt "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."' - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-right.txt "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-risk-management.txt "We did a risk management review. We concluded that there was no risk of any management." - Dilbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-risks.txt "You don't know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out." - Warren Buffett "There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk." - Henrik Ibsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-rogue.txt "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-roses.txt "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-rudeness.txt "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-rules.txt "Rules are prisons." - William Bernbach "I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head." - Princess Diana "Rules are not necessarily sacred. Principles are." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "There are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-sadness.txt "Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-safety-margin.txt "When playing Russian roulette, the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next." - Richard Feynman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-safety.txt "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." - Tacitus, Roman philosopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-salary.txt "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-schooling.txt "How infuriating not to know! All those years at Eton... Why didn't they teach me anything sensible?" - Aldous Huxley "[Administration] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom restrained from acting, such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville, _Democracy In America_ "Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what... saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor... It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive [jobs] from being deserted. It holds the miner in his darkness. It keeps different social strata from mixing." - William James, _Principles of Psychology_, 1890 "...we set ourselves the task of inoculating youth... at an age when human beings are still unspoiled." - Adolf Hitler, May 1, 1937 "In 1909 a factory inspector did an informal survey of 500 working children in 20 factories. She found that 412 of them would rather work in the terrible conditions of the factories than return to school." - Helen Todd, _Why Children Work_, McClure's Magazine (April 1913) "In one experiment in Milwaukee, for example, 8,000 youth... were asked if they would return full-time to school if they were paid about the same wages as they earned at work; only 16 said they would." - David Tyack, _Managers of Virtue_ (1982) "School produces mental perversion and absolute stupidity. It produces bodily disease. It produces these things by measures which operate to the prejudice of the growing brain. It is not to be doubted that dullness, indocility, and viciousness are frequently aggravated by the lessons of school." - Vincent Youmans, 1867 "Ordinary schooling produces dullness. A young man whose intellectual powers are worth cultivating cannot be willing to cultivate them by pursuing phantoms as the schools now insist upon." - President of Harvard, 1895 "Too many young people gain nothing [from school] except the conviction they are misfits." - John Gardner, _Annual Report to the Carnegie Corporation_, 1960 "I encountered authority of a different kind [in elementary school] than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me." - Steve Jobs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-science.txt "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that's not why we're doing it." - Richard Feynman "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." - Neil deGrasse Tyson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-secret.txt "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-security.txt "Distrust and caution are the parents of security." - Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-self-defense.txt "Self defense isn't about empowerment, personal gain, winning, revenge or teaching those who have hurt you a lesson. Those are the motivations of an attacker. Self-defense is about effectively ending an attack, quickly and with minimum damage to yourself." - Marc MacYoung ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-self.txt "The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self." - Erich Fromm, _Escape from Freedom_, 1941 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-sex.txt "I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-silence.txt "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." - Abraham Lincoln ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-simple.txt "If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem." - Bjarne Stroustrup "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein "You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." - de Saint-Exupery "If you can't explain it simply enough, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-simplicity.txt "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger W. Dijkstra "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci "The central enemy of reliability is complexity." - Geer et al. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-sitting.txt "When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them--as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon--I think that they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-skill.txt "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." - Sun Tzu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-slave.txt "I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted." - Frederick Douglas "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably thro' every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery." - Thomas Jefferson, 1774 "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it." - Aldous Huxley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-smile.txt "If you can't laugh, smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, stay out of the way until you can." - Winston Churchill "A man without a smiling face must not open a shop." - Chinese proverb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-sniper.txt Remember the CNN female reporter that asked a Marine Sniper (in caps MFer) if he felt anything after shooting those poor Arabs, He said "Yes ma, recoil!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-snooping.txt "Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge." - Michael V. Hayden, the director of the CIA, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-socialism.txt "...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them." - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, _Thames TV This Week_, 1976 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-society.txt "In all failing societies, respect for obligation and family declines along with compassion for one's fellows—to be replaced by a preoccupation with amusement, diversion, and predation." - John Taylor Gatto "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." ~ Arthur Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-soldier.txt "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - G. K. Chesterton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-somebody.txt "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-spending.txt "Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal." - Donald Rumsfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-spontaneity.txt "Spontaneity is a precious quality so long as it is not confused with mental chaos." - Matthieu Ricard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-statistics.txt "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-steamboat.txt "You would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a fire under her decks? I have no time to listen to such nonsense!" - Napoleon Bonaparte to Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-strategy.txt "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." —Sun Tzu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-stream.txt "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." ― G.K. Chesterton, _The Everlasting Man_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-stupidity.txt "There is no sin except stupidity." - Oscar Wilde "Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point." - Robert Anton Wilson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell Five fundamental laws of stupidity: * Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. * The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person. * A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process. * Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error. * A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is. - Carlo Maria Cipolla "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-subsistence.txt "Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilised society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which their fruitful marriages produce." - Adam Smith, 1776 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-success.txt "Success is going from failure to failure with great enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." - Niccolo Machiavelli "There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence." - Colin Powell "Success is just having the fortitude to keep going." - Ed Hoffman, director of NASA's Academy of Program and Project Leadership "A number of studies show that people are less likely to make optimal decisions after prolonged periods of success. NASA, Enron, Lucent, WorldCom—all had reached the mountaintop before they ran into trouble. Someone should have told them that most mountaineering accidents happen on the way down." - Ram Charan, Jerry Useem, Fortune Magazine (2002) "To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink), and if you borrow, borrow big." - Aristotle Onassis "There are two rules for success in life. Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know." - Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-suffering.txt "Pain is inevitable, suffering is not." - Gunaratana ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-suit-everybody.txt "A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." - Charles Schwab, American industrialist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-sweat.txt "A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." - General George Patton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-tactics.txt "Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy." - General George Patton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-talk.txt "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - Harry Warner, president of Warner Brothers Studios, 1927 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-tax.txt "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." - Mark Twain "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward." - John Maynard Keynes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-telephone.txt "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-television.txt "Television won't be able to hold on to a market. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." - Daryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox Film Studios, 1946 "Television permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." - T. S. Eliot, 1963 "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." - Lee De Forest, radio pioneer, 1926 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-temptation.txt "There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-theatre.txt "Never fear the audience, nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all, never, never, never, bore the living hell out of it." - Noel Coward, English playwright ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-theory.txt "There is nothing so practical as a theory that works." - Barry Turner "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Lawrence Peter Berra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-thinking-people.txt "A supporter once called out, 'Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!' And Adlai Stevenson answered, 'That's not enough. I need a majority.'" - Scott Simon, "Music Cues: Adlai Stevenson" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-thinking.txt "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it." - Henry Ford "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking." - General George Patton "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." - Hypatia of Alexandria "Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by having a somewhat less intact box." - Fredrik Ullén "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." - Sir Joshua Reynolds "No, no! You're not thinking, you're just being logical..." - Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize winner in physics "Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion—in the long run, these are the only people who count." - Robert A. Heinlein "What good fortune for governments that people do not think." - Adolf Hitler "Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think." - Thomas A. Edison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-thoughts.txt "All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts." - James Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-time.txt "No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time." - Martha Graham "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-tired.txt "When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired." - Pablo Picasso ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-titanic.txt "I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that." - Captain Smith (captain of Titanic) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-to-do.txt "To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god." - Napoleon Bonaparte ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-tomorrow.txt "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-trade-balance.txt "We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them." - _Discourse of the Common Wealth of this Realm of England_, 1549 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-trade-deficit.txt "The U.S. trade deficit is a bigger threat to the domestic economy than either the federal budget deficit or consumer debt and could lead to political turmoil... Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them." - Warren Buffett (January 20, 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-trains.txt "Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dionysius Larnder, English scientist, (1793­1859) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-travel.txt "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." - G. K. Chesterton, 1920s "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." - Paul Theroux "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain, _Innocents Abroad_ "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." - Gustave Flaubert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-treat.txt "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be." - Goethe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-troll.txt "The entire justice system will collapse if I am convicted." - Paul Hansmeier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-trouble-in-life.txt "When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened." - Sir Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-troublemakers.txt "When a troublemaker walks into a room, he's looking to see who's looking at him." - Peyton Quinn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-trust.txt "If your wife and children can't trust you, why should I?" - Ross Perot "Never trust a person who does not accept a bribe." - Aristotle Onassis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-truth.txt "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." - Sir Winston Churchill "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill "They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." - G. Massey, Egyptologist "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - G. Hébert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-turkey.txt "One realizes there are two breeds in Turkey: those who carry and those who sit." - V. S. Pritchett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-tyranny.txt "One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond that is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." ―Lord Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-tyrants.txt "One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms." - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-understand.txt "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand." - Confucius "It's a luxury to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-unemployment.txt "The cause of waves of unemployment is not 'capitalism' but governments denying enterprise the right to produce good money." - F. A. Hayek "There is an involuntary element in all unemployment, in the sense that no one chooses bad luck over good; there is also a voluntary element in all unemployment, in the sense that however miserable one's current work options, one can always choose to accept them." - Robert E. Lucas, Jr. "Unemployment is a problem of wages, not of work." - Ludwig von Mises "Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited." - Ludwig von Mises "Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment." - Ludwig von Mises "Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle." - Ludwig von Mises "What's the use of being a genius if you can't use it as an excuse for being unemployed?" - Gerald Barzan "A man is only unemployed when he is both not employed and also desires to be employed." - A. C. Pigou, 1933 "The long-range solution [to high unemployment] is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others... We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork." - Milton Friedman, _U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT; March 7, 1977_ "Depression and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market, but by government interference in the economy." - Ludwig von Mises, _The Theory of Money and Credit_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-unhappy.txt "If a man who has just moved into a luxury apartment on the hundredth floor of a brand-new building is deeply unhappy, the only thing he'll look for is a window to jump out of." - Dalai Lama "If there is a cure, what good is discontent? If there is no cure, what good is discontent?" - master Shantideva ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-universe.txt "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-unknown.txt "The unusual and the unknown make us either overconfident or overly fearful." - Gaius Julius Caesar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-unreasonable.txt "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." - Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-vaccine.txt "The only safe vaccine is one that is never used." - Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National Institute of Health, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-valitus.txt "Emme käsittele valituksia kilotavarana, ja mahdolliseen langettavaan päätökseen riittäisi yksikin kantelu." - Nina Porra. JSN:n sihteeri ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-vcr.txt "The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." - Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) President Jack Valenti, 1982 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-venture.txt "So it is too that in the eyes of the world it is dangerous to venture. And why? Because one may lose. But not to venture is shrewd. And yet, by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture, and in any case never so easily, so completely as if it were nothing... one's self." - Kierkegaard, _The Sickness Unto Death_ (1849) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-vietnam.txt "In the fall of 1961 it didn't take very long to discover in Vietnam that we weren't likely to be successful there. It took me less than a week, on my first visit." - Daniel Ellsberg "The three most famous cases of deferment during the Vietnam War years were those of two future presidents and a vice-president. George W. Bush spent his time during the war within the continental United States as a member of the Texas Air National Guard and Bill Clinton spent the war years with his own educational deferments at Georgetown and then at Oxford under the auspices of a Rhodes scholarship. Vice President Dick Cheney received five deferments during the Vietnam years, famously remarking that he had “other, more important things to do” at the time." - _Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-violence.txt "Violence is the first option, and the last choice, of the competent." - Frank Gasperik "The more truly violent species all appear to have exterminated themselves, a lesson we should not overlook." - Desmond Morris "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell "The deadliest form of violence is poverty." - Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-vision.txt "Just as no great painting was ever designed by committee, no outstanding vision has ever emerged from the herd." - Warren Bennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-vote.txt "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." - Former American President Grover Cleveland, 1905 "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." - Mark Twain "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski "A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner "Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)." - Ayn Rand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-walking.txt "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." - Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-wander.txt "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-wants-needs.txt "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. Man's desires must overshadow his needs." - Paul Mazer, a Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-war-fever.txt "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism andexposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Hermann Göring "If there were no Jews, we would have to invent them." - Hermann Göring "The cult of xenophobia is the cheapest and surest method of obtaining from the masses the ignorant and savage patriotism, which puts the blame for every political folly or social misfortune upon the foreigner." - Mao Zedong "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be." - Vladimir Lenin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-war.txt "Men love war because it allows them to look serious." - John Fowles "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - George Santayana ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-way-to-do-it-better.txt "There's a way to do it better. Find it." - Thomas Edison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-wealth.txt "There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time." - Benjamin Franklin "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only." - Henry David Thoreau "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." - Henry David Thoreau "Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed." - Frédéric Bastiat "In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth." - Ludwig von Mises "It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer." - Ludwig von Mises "The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's effort." - Ludwig von Mises "A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way." - Ludwig von Mises "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde "To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families, by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils." - Adam Smith "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato "He has the most who is most content with the least." - Diogenes "The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest." - Democritus "Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." - Epicurus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-windows.txt "And I'm still primarily on Windows, unfortunately. Linux would be safer." - Bruce Schneier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-wisdom.txt "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-wit.txt "The one and a half wit is often considered a half-wit because we only understand one-third his wit." - Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-words.txt "The oldest, shortest words—yes and no—are those which require the most thought." Pythagoras, 5th century BC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-working-alone.txt "I am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork... for well I know that in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the commanding." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-work.txt "There is much more to life than work and there is much more to work than work." - Jagdish Parikh "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided." - Mark Twain "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." - George Carlin "The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." - George Carlin "I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi "The definition of woman's work is shitwork." - Gloria Steinem "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." - Ogden Nash "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - C. Northcote Parkinson, _Parkinson's Law_ "Far away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt "If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled." - Will Rogers "I never made a dime talking." - Sebastian Spering Kresge, only words at a 1953 speech at Harvard University "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." - Drayton Bird "One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without false ego, with great determination and enthusiasm, and without wavering in success or failure is said to be a worker in the mode of goodness." - The Bhagvad Gita (18.26) "The hired man does not owe the employer gratitude; he owes him a definite quantity of work of a definite kind and quality." - Ludwig von Mises "The American worker is badly mistaken when he believes that his high standard of living is due to his own excellence." - Ludwig von Mises "My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh—anything but work." - Abraham Lincoln "Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong." - Georges Wolinski "I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself." - Joseph Conrad, _Heart of Darkness_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-worldcom.txt "If you show those damn numbers to the fucking auditors, I'll throw you out the window." - Buddy Yates, director of WorldCom General Accounting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-world.txt "To understand the world, we must understand mean and lowly things." - Aristotle Einstein was once asked, "What can we do to get a better world?" He replied, "You have to have better people." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-writing_a_book.txt "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public." - Sir Winston Churchill "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." - Elmore Leonard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-writing.txt "Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything." - Wilhelm Ockhamilainen (1285-1349) "It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way." - Ernest Hemingway "It is easier to be long than short." - Samuel Butler "Once precision is abandoned as a linguistic or literary virtue, vague generalization is one of the two remaining possibilities, gibberish being the second." - Wendell Berry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-xrays.txt "X-rays will prove to be a hoax." - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British physicist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-yourself.txt "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote-you.txt "Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free." - Eckhart Tolle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------