Favorite Quotes 19

[BJCooperIT]

Many of us here at TT have quotes in our signature lines. Some funny, some profound (like CC's) and some personal. The problem I have is that I do not have the time, or inclination, to change the quote in my signature on a regular basis. That being said, I would like to post another of my favorite quotes:

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson (1902-1981), English Racer

So true in this business. Your favorites?

[sup]Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.[/sup][sup] ~George Bernard Shaw[/sup]
Consultant Developer/Analyst Oracle, Forms, Reports & PL/SQL (Windows)
My website: www.EmuProductsPlus.com

 

[rjoubert]

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Of course, with me, it's...

I hear and I forget what I heard. I see and I forget what I saw. I do and I forget what I did.

P.S. Do I get a prize for being #100?

 

[LadySlinger]

My recent one?

"My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it."

Peter Norvig Engineering Director at Google.
[a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/30/byrne.powerpoint.ap/"[/URL]]from a CNN Article[/a]

 

[ascotta]

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!

[blue] A perspective from the other side!![/blue]

Cheers
Scott

 

[carp]

It is good for an ignorant man to have a book of quotes."
- Sir Winston Churchill

 

[philhege]

Carp wins the thread.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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Not NULL-terminated yet.

 

[MCuthill]

A Spartan Toast from the Movie 'Troy'

May The Gods Keep The Wolves In The Hills & The Women In Our Beds

Mike
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"It Seems All My Problems Exist Between Keyboard and Chair"

 

[MallardVHS]

O wad some Power the giftie [red]gie[/red] us, To see oursels as ithers see us!

TOO COOL.

Sunday is "family dinner night" at my folks' house, often followed by a game of Scrabble. This past Sunday, Dad played "GIE."

Love me roots, I do!

D

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Some folks put their money where their mouth is. I just pay my bill. [/blue]

 

[Bandenjamin]

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -- Samuel Johnson

 

[monkeybarfan]

I'm gonna get a big map of the workld and hang it on my wall. I'm gonna stick pins into every place I visit. first though, I need to visit the top two corners so it does not fall down!

 

[LARiot]

Killer Cobain kicked me senseless every day
I hope that bastard is beneath a head of stone

Where I'd dance upon his grave
For all the madness I now crave
While the scars that remain still a curse

-Flogging Molly (Swagger Album)

 

[eman6]

How about this one:
"Why I don't want to start a relationship with you? Because if I ever decide to stop, you'd blame me for having started it"

This is one of mine

______________________________________
Eman6
Technical User

 

[CajunCenturion]

I heard a great one this weekend.

"Everything I said is true, and some of it actually happened."

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[LARiot]

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers

-Princess Leia

 

[ascotta]

You have two ears and one mouth, kindly use them in that ratio.

[blue] A perspective from the other side!![/blue]

Cheers
Scott

 

[jimirvine]

My personal fave

In Vino Veritas

 

[stubnski]

There is a time for compromise...it's called later

Jack of all trades, master of none

You can't teach brains

Stupid is as stupid does - Forest Gump


Stubnski

 

[SantaMufasa]

Here are a few of my favourites:

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But, rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ WOO HOO what a ride!

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Hardware is that part of a computer which, when you remove electrical power, doesn't go away.

In one day, Samson slew one thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Every day, 10,000 sales are killed with the same weapon

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
from.

Life is sexually transmitted.

The true measure of a person’s character is how s/he deals with disappointment.

My wife and I had words, but I didn't get to use mine.”

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by
bolts of lightning.

It’s bad luck to be superstitious.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[AndrewTait]

I only got drunk once, for 20 years!

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So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum
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[eman6]

SantaMufasa
Very nice collection
A star for you!!

______________________________________
Eman6
Technical User

 

[BiJae]

One of my favorites:

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

http://www.bijae.net

"If the only prayer you said in
your whole life was, 'thank you,'
that would suffice."
-- Meister Eckhart