Some Quotes

July 13, 2006

  • “I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.” (Jack Handey)
  • “They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression. This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.” (Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship)
  • “It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realise that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” (Alan Shepherd)
  • “The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, `You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done’.” (George Carlin)
  • “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.” (Hanlon)
  • “Note that you do not need a parachute to sky-dive. You need a parachute to sky-dive twice.”
  • “I never make predictions. I never have, and I never will.” (Tony Blair)
  • “Listen– strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.” (Monty Python)
  • “Religion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful.” (Seneca)
  • “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” (George W. Bush)
  • “Because that’s where the money is.” (Willie Sutton, explaining why he robbed banks)
  • “Serendipity is looking for a needle in a haystack and finding the farmer’s daughter.” (Hans Kornberg)
  • A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click
  • / is the root of all evils
  • Don’t put all your hypes in one home page
  • Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish
  • The geek shall inherit the earth
  • A chat has nine lives
  • Fax is stranger than fiction
  • There’s no place like www.home.com
  • Know what to expect before you connect
  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Web and he won’t bother you for weeks..
  • Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.
  • Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say
  • What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter
  • everybody laugh at me. i’m a joke.
  • the corporate is always right.
  • God created woman to remind man that he isn’t perfect.

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