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]
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[zzz789]

from a sign on a taxi in South Africa:
"Let my enemies live long so that they can see me prosper"

also a tribute has to be paid to 2pac:
"Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting....."

 

[faz67]

The Wilde quotation that served most admirably for the motto of my misspent youth.
"I can resist everything except temptation"
I'm paraphrasing here of course.
faz67

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Just a couple:

Used by Univ. of Phoenix:

I am not a hamster, and life is not a wheel.

and from a demotivation poster:

That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable..

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[Trevoke]

There are some weapons you cannot hold in your hands. You can only hold them in your mind." - Bene Gesserit Saying.

Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

* from "The Humanity of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan


Both from Dune, by Frank Herbert.

Tao Te Ching Discussions : Chapter 4 (includes links to previous chapters)

 

[sbrews]

I dont recall where I first heard this, but I have always found it amusing:

If its not broken, fix it until it is.

 

[kjv1611]

sbrews, slight correction (assuming there isn't some extra hidden meaning behind the grammatical usage)...

If it[highlight]'[/highlight]s not broken, fix it until it is.

There, that's better.

[LOL]

--

"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[sbrews]

nope, no hidden meaning - just a lazy typer. thanks for the fix.

 

[chiph]

My favorite:

When in trouble or in doubt,
Run in circles scream and shout

Chip H.


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[sleipnir214]

One I've used much of late:

It's not my place to drive the train, the whistle I can't blow.
It's not my place to say which way the train's supposed to go.
It's not my place to blow off steam or even clang the bell.
But let the damned thing jump the track then see who catches hell.



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[LARiot]

People who think they know it all are especially annoying to those of us who do.

 

[m4ilm4n]

One of my favorites, on a colleague's office door:

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Edgar Allan Poe

jimirvine: The response to "In vino veritas" would be "Age quod agis".

 

[medic]

Don't worry about avoiding temptations. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- ????

You sit with a beautiful girl in an hour...it seems like a minute.
You sit in a hot stove for a minute...it seems like an hour.
Now, that's relativity.
- Einstein

 

[deepgrewal22]

Windows is just DOS in drag.

Deep Grewal
"Microsoft Works" - oxymoron

 

[thekl0wn]

Don't worry about making applications idiot-proof, because if you do, we'll hire a better idiot." -- One of my co-workers on my first day

"And Godzilla USED to be an itty-bitty lizard!" -- Jeff Foxworthy

"I haven't been ....ed like that since grade school!" -- Marla Singer in "Fight Club"

"I just started on my second million dollars. The first wasn't goin' so well for me, so I gave up on it" -- guy who cleaned our jobsite port-a-john

 

[AndrewTait]

A few I have come across in the last few weeks

You may think if it ain't broke, dont fix it. Engineers think that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

I have a very good grip on reality, it's just a rather different grip to everyone else

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

Sarcasm, just another of the services we offer

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[StephaneezBrainFreez]

Since no one else has brought it up, I must...

The definition of insanity:
To repeat the same action over and over
Expecting a different result.

I'm paraphrasing, and afraid I don't know whose quote it is, but I like it. A lot.

 

[glewis1636]

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

Paul

"Uhm..."

 

[Lunatic]

StephaneezBrainFreez,

Looks like Benjamin Franklin and later Einstein paraphrased him.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benjaminfr109067.html

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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[razalas]

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not
is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not
is ignorant. Teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows
is asleep. Wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows
is wise. Follow him.

and its requisite corollary...

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

and

Do not walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Do not walk behind me; I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.

Code what you mean,
and mean what you code!
But by all means post your code!

Razalas

 

[Lunatic]

After reading all the ones people have submitted, I'll chime in with two of my favorites:

A truly wise man knows only what he does not know"

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

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