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- I don't want to be immortal through my works I want to be immortal through
- not dying.. -Woody Allen
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- Turn off the computer and go to bed.
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- The next system crash is just a 1/60 of a second away.
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- Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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- Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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- God ever arithmetizes.
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- Back off, buddy. I'm a scientist.
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- Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
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- Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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- Great spirits have always encountered'violent opposition from mediocre
- minds.
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- There is always one moment when the door opens and lets the future in.
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- Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.'
- -Joseph Conrad
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- A man is only as good as the tool he uses.
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- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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- Life is a journey, not a destination.
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- Trifles make perfection, but perfection itself is no trifle.
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- Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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- He who rides a tiger cannot dismount.
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- Consider nothing as impossible before it has come to pass.
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- Don't ignore details. Lick them.
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- Problems are the price of progress.
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- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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- Time is the devourer of all things.
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- The human animal differs from the lesser primates'in his passion for lists
- of "Ten Best".
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- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,5they are not certain;
- and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- - Albert Einstein
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- Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
- -- Mark Twain
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- Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.
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- When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
- most delusive,(and most transient of passions, they are8required to swear that
- they will remain in that excited,"abnormal, and exhausting
- condition&continuously until death do them part."
- -- George Bernard Shaw
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- Why is that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we
- are not the one involved? -Mark Twain
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- Woe is the isolationist who tries to turn the cogs of his own engine
- ,while ignoring the machinations about him.
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- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
- you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- -- Mark Twain
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- Principle of Conservation of Ignorance: A false notion once arrived at is
- not easily dislodged. -- Georg Cantor
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- Principle of Maximum Simplicity: Everything should be made as simple as
- possible--but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein
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- Principle of Dynamic Queuing Theory: The other line always moves faster.
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- Principle of State Queuing Theory: The other line is always shorter.
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- There was a young fellow named Fisk
- Whose fencing was agile and brisk,
- So fast was his action
- The Fitzgerald contraction
- Diminished his sword to a disk.
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- If a thing is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.
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- Chess, like music, has the power to make men happy.
- -- S. Tarrasch
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- Men and nations will act rationally when all other possiblities have been
- exhausted.
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- For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
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- If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law.
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- Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL.
- -- Mae West
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- One good reason why computers can do more work than people is
- that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
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- The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of a soda
- can, which when discarded will last forever...and a $7,000 car which when
- properly cared for will rust out in two or three years.
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- The average woman would rather have beauty than brains,
- because the average man can see better than he can think.
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- On the heights it is warmer than one thinks in the valleys.
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- Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
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- America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to
- decadence without touching civilization.
- -- John O'Hara
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- Some men are discovered; others are found out.
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- Words must be weighed, not counted.
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- By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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- Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true.
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- Creditors have much better memories than debtors.
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- You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys
- the pig.
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- He who invents adages for others to peruse takes along a rowboat when going
- on a cruise.
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- Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure.
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- The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.
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- To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the
- competent.
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- He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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- Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples.
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- Get back to work!
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- One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.
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- Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.
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- Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
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- Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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- A woman is like a highway: soft shoulders and dangerous curves.
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- Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
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- Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write go to the
- State Department.
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- This Cookie is inoperative. Please try another.
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- Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either.
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- No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.
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- You will feel hungry again in another hour.
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- The computer loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.
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- Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing.
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- God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.
- --- or ---Man made God; all else is the work of integers.
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- He who hesitates is miles away from the next freeway exit.
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- Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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- The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.)
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- If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger
- hands.
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- It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost.
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- Making predictions is always difficult, especially about the future.
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- Special thanks go to Tom Mulligan for supplying lots and lots of Cookies.
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- Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize.
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- All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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- Ignore previous Cookie.
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- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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- Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.
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- The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again.
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- Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach,
- administrate.
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- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to&open one's mouth
- and remove all doubt.
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- The proof is left to the student as a pudding.
- The student is in the pudding as an exercise.
- The exercise is proof of the student.
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- Never confuse motion for action. -- Benjamin Franklin
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- Will Rodgers never met Howard Cosell.
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- WARNING -- This system is now being controlled by IBM.
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- I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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- The pudding is in the student. The student needs some exercise.
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- Girls don't give hugs if your code has bugs.
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- Random stomping seldom catches bugs.
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- I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...
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- Feature: a desirable attribute of a program.,Bug: an undesireable attribute
- of a program to be fixed in the near future. Beature: an undesireable
- attribute of a program which -will not be fixed no matter how hard you
- beg..Fug: a desirable attribute of a program which -has been repaired, thereby
- making a new bug.
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- Computer scientists can do anything except chemistry and accounting, and
- that is by choice.
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- Ignorance is the ally of deception.
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- Sometimes the problem isn't the high cost of living, but the cost of high
- living.
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- Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone.
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- A man of means means more than a man who's mean.
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- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however
- improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes
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- Never argue with a fool. Others may not be able to tell the difference.
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- If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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- Anything that isn't nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry loose isn't
- nailed down.
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- The probability of the bread falling jelly-side down is directly
- proportional to the cost of the carpet.
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- It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to hold on to his money.
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- The person who can smile when something goes wrong has,obviously thought of
- someone to blame it on.
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- Sorry, this Cookie broken!
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- Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
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- The difference between capitalism and socialism is that in capitalism, man
- exploits man,-while in socialism it's the other way around.
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- One picture is worth a thousand reels of magnetic tape.
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- Subtlety is the art of saying what you think, and getting out of the way
- before it is understood.
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- I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure
- you realize what you heard is not what I really meant.
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- To the systems programmers, the customers and users serve only as a test
- load.
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- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world as it exists; the
- unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
- Therefore,-all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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- Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
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- TOMORROW HAS BEEN CANCELED, DUE TO AN ERROR NOTED ELSEWHERE.
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- Before they made you they broke the mold.
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- A whole hog is better than no hog at all.
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- Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
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- To one with a hammer everything is a nail.
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- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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- Before God and the bus driver we are all equal.
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- Appliances must carry energy-efficiency labels, but so far the government
- doesn't require them on people.
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- When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, its
- th' money.
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- A home is the place where part of the family waits until the others have
- returned with the car.
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- We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
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- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't
- read.
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- If it weren't for optimists, pessimists would never know how unhappy they
- are.
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- Vanity is quite often the greatest enemy of competence.
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- Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
- taught. -- Sir Winston Churchill
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- BIT - The quantum of misinformation.
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- MICROPROCESSOR - Twenty years of architectural bungling concentrated onto a
- single chip.
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- -COMPUTER SCIENCE - A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the
- precision of the former and the success of the latter.
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- One incompetent manager can negate the work of dozens of excellent
- engineers.
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- This place is a hotbed of inertia.
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- Whoever dies with the most toys wins.
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- The college lecture is the process whereby the notes of the professor become
- the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either.
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- I ain't met a broad yet that don't understand a slap across the face or a
- slug from a 45. -- Mike Hammer
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- To beat the grass is to risk startling the snake.
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- 1.Your situation is as precarious as piled eggs.
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- Too many evil deeds ruin the doer.
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- An easy life saps one's will.
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- A dog is a dog unless he is facing you; then he is Mr. Dog.
- -- Haitian Proverb
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- Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
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- Nuke the gay whales.
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- The universe is laughing behind your back.
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- If you suspect a man, don't employ him.
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- Committee: an organism with 3 or more bellies and no brain.
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- It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
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- Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.
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- Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face.
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- Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level.
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- You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
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- How you look depends on where you go.
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- Just because something is scientifically true, doesn't mean it's not weird.
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- Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
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- A man who turns green has eschewed protein.
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- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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- With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.
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- He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
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- Today is the first day of the rest of your life, or today is the last day of
- your life so far.
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- The early worm gets the bird.