"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"
"Sometimes inactivity is better than mindless functioning"
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for life."
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift: that is why it's called the Present."
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
hmmm, If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
"No man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft"
Once they have you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers
Be as innocent as open source doves and as cunning as Microsoft serpents.
The price of freedom is eternal litigation.
Programming is like playing Piano: Just press the right key at the right time in the right order with the right intensity.
"The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful"
But challenging as they are, it is not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most, it is the smallness of our politics.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Freedom is when the people can speak. Democracy is when the government listens.
"God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the dice at every possible opportunity."
"We humans get marks for consistency. We always opt for civilization after exhausting the alternatives."
"grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference,"
"If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking into an ambush."
"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do."
"If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him."
Why do they keep bathroom doors locked at gas stations? Are they afraid someone might actually clean them?
"The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield."
"Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons."
"People aren't as dumb as Microsoft needs them to be."
"[Windows] is the only operating system that guarantees I will always have a job."
"Internet Explorer is a program that allows you to access the Internet. And vice versa."
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."
"Even if you hand tie the fuses and execute a really stylish cast with a smooth continuous side-arm motion, its never considered sporting to fish with dynamite"
"they did not know it was impossible, so they did it!"
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones"
"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
"Criticize by Creating"
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
"Programming stimulates me. If I am not stimulated I lack productivity. If I lack productivity progression is lost. If progression is lost I lack pay. If I lack pay I 'am not' programming."
"The wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles."
"No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back."
"It is only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts."
"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
"SMOG: Evidence of lack of faith. It is the result of needing to see what you breath."
"Corporate views on IP law might be described as similar to a 2-year-old's concept of who gets to play with all the toys regardless of who brought them"
"No man becomes rich unless he enriches others."
"There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."
"I read somewhere that for the average person fourteen farts a day are considered normal. Based on these figures, and judging from my own output, I have to assume there are millions of people who never fart at all."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth and then pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy"
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
Having smoking and non-smoking sections in the same room is like having urinating and non-urinating sections in a swimming pool.
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
The process of gaining knowledge is not producing results but clearing away ignorance.
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"In either case, the Court cautions Plaintiff's counsel not to run with a
sharpened writing utensil in hand--he could put his eye out." - 147 F.Supp.2d 668; 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8962; 2001 AMC 2358