"I
never knew I always wanted that!"
- Spencer Hawk, age 6
"There is a commercial on the radio that begins,
'Everybody wants a high-end TV...' The pressure to purchase is real . It may be true that everybody wants a high-end TV. After all, nobody wants to be a nobody. But I'm happy to live without one."
- Karl R. Green
"The world of goals
is about fast-tracking your life. It's about
getting from point A to Z, ASAP. Do not
linger over a cup of J. There is no time to
smell the R. Just go! Go! Go! Multitask to
early retirement."
- Mathew Wolfe
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
- Sinclair Lewis
"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Hurry is
not of the devil; hurry is the devil."
- Carl Jung
"Good for
Business, bad for the People"
- unnamed businessman, Fahrenheit 911
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
- Socrates
Flying cars and the future are synonymous. That's how we know it's not the future yet: there are no flying cars in mass production. Someday they'll start making workable flying cars, it'll be the future, and we can all
eat Dippin' Dots and talk about the barbaric, uncivilized past while dodging plummeting bodies.
- Lore Sjöberg
OK, look - I think I have a plan here. Using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel under the city and release it into the wild.
- Mike Wazowski, Monsters Inc
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill (courtesy of Jon Fox)
Most people know more about how the Vatican works than about what programmers do.
- Alan Cooper
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
- Benjamin Franklin
Yet, it is important to remember that a great many more things might happen than actually do. There are more plausibility's than likelihood's.
- David Brin, Ph.D.
"First off - stop caring about what a 50-year-old would or wouldn't do. The minute you start to make THAT assessment, a part of you dies a little. I myself plan on being about 14 until
I die and anyone who stands in the way of that can just f*ck off. If I want to wear my pink pants out on the town, it's going to take a lot more than 'socially accepted standards' to stop me. Maybe something like a
bullet maybe, or an act of god, or maybe a snowstorm (I hate blue balls) but NEVER what someone thinks of me."
- William Missett, Director of Tactile Operations, DEA
"You are not beaten until you admit it, hence don't."
- General George Patton
"Satan, Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas"
- A Palindrome by Anonymous
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Angela Monet
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass
We are The Flakes.
You will be assimilated into our cereal collective.
Resistance is futile.
Milk is preferable
- Raven Wylder
I'll take heaven for climate and hell for sociability.
- Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- Cicero
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
- Errol Flynn
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
I'm walking home from school and I'm watching some men build a new house. All of a sudden the guy hammering on the roof calls me a paranoid little weirdo. In Morse code.
- Emo Phillips
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
- Robertson Davies
The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want?".
-Sigmund Freud
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
- Eric Hoffer
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
- Matt Groening
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
- Daniel Greenberg
The human brain is perhaps the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ it does not know how to use.
- Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine
At present, there are many more years ahead of the Internet than behind it, so a decision was made to relax the compatibility requirement in order to create a superior development and
deployment environment.
- Microsoft Corporation, "Migrating ASP Pages to ASP.NET", circa June 2001
Disobedience in the eyes of any one who has read history is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through
rebellion.
- Oscar Wilde
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be
conservative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Always... always remember: Less is less. More is more. More is better and twice as much is good too. Not enough is bad, and too much is never enough except when it's just about
right.
- The Tick
You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, mathematically, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that.
- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
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
We often despise what is most useful to us.
- Aesop
[Web405] End of Year Thoughts:
Oh - I have a lesson - a BIG one: I LOVE good project managers.
LOVE them. LOVE THEM LOVE THEM LOVE THEM.
They are few and far between, and are as good as gold on teams of any scale. Bad project managers can create chaos, unhappiness, and kill the morale of the web folk. Good project managers are realistic with management
while pushing you to do your best work and work hard; Good project managers do more than just pay lip service to your ideas. Good project managers know how much they know, and *ask* if they don't understand something.
Good project managers sympathize with your family situation when work requires you to stay late. Good project managers know when the meeting is *over* and it's time to get back to work.
- Joe Crawford, WebSanDiego List Founder
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Henri Bergson
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Businesses change technologies and approaches not when it is easy to do, but when it is hard to avoid.
- Anonymous
Belief is thought at rest.
- Larry Harvey
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others- the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make
money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the
first to understand that wealth has to be created.
- Ayn Rand
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
- Linus Pauling
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack
for nourishment.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success - To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
