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"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."
-- Ann Landers
To be understood is a luxury.
Beware by whom you are called sane.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
-- Brian Anderson
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.
-- Jess Anderson
"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all."
Sometimes you have to bite people hard on the lip before they realize you're not kissing them, so keenly do they yearn for approval.
-- Jess Anderson
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."
-- Alexander Penney
Today was a really, really great day, on the "aaagh fuck me!" scale.
-- Steve VanDevender
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
-- Alexander Smith
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
He who laughs last probably didn't understand the joke.
Television: the bland leading the bland.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
What part of "AWW C'MON, PLEASE??" don't you understand?
(T-Shirt)
"Loved by some, accepted by others and misunderstood by most."
Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- J. von Neumann
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers."
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-- Alexander Woollcott
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
-- Peter Alexander Ustinov
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava let 'em go because, man, they're gone.
-- Jack Handey
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-- Jonathan Larson
No need crying over spilt milk. Unless, of course, you're a truck driver and you just lost nearly 3800 gallons on the interstate - then it's okay to cry.
-- Dan Lantz
"...screws fall out all the time, sir. The world is an imperfect place."
-- Bender (Breakfast Club)
Much learning does not teach understanding.
-- Heraclitus
"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."
-- Annette Funicello
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
-- Mark Twain
Not all those who wander are lost.
-- J.R.R. Tolkein
If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
"I've always wanted to be Brigitte Bardot."
-- Bob Dylan
"To live outside the law you must be honest."
-- Bob Dylan
Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Cloud Minders")
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
-- Mark Twain
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
-- Jubal (Stranger In A Strange Land)
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
-- Dandemis
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-- Confucius
I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.
-- Martha Graham
Law of Cat Landing:
A cat will always land in the softest place possible; often the mid-section of an unsuspecting, reclining human.
"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."
-- Alan Watts
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
The only good strategy is one that no one else understands.
-- Tracy Kidder
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."
-- Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)
Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking.
"Always be a 1st-rate version of yourself instead of a 2nd rate version of someone else."
-- Judy Garland
> 0C is freezing, 100C is boiling, 70F is a nice day, and 110C is a nice
> sauna.
This is the same logic that took out the Mars Polar Lander, I see.
-- Peter da Silva
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
-- William Westmoreland
'Truth' never set anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.
-- Anton LaVey
I don't understand men, women, sheep, grass, or computers. Understanding is for those too weak to handle confusion.
-- Stevie Ulrich
Please storyteller, pull a tale from your pocket,
Spin me a story from your coat-tails so bare,
For my heart has turned cold, and my dreams are too old,
And I need to know the magic's still there
-- Heather Alexander (Storyteller)
Landing: a controlled mid-air collision with a planet.
Cashtration, n.: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
Never underestimate the falseness of a generalisation.
Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
-- R. D. Lang
Your powers are useless, I'm wearing tin foil underwear!
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
-- Oscar Wilde
"I understand your question and the answer is 'You're thinking too hard.'"
-- Jose Garcia
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
One of the problems with learning that many teachers fail to see is that until you really understand something, any argument made out of that understanding context tends to be pretty useless.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
-- Arnold Bennett
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-- Carl Jung
Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
-- Oscar Wilde
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Politics is like coaching a football team. You have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
Saying that Java is better just because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is better just because it works on all genders
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
-- Walter Lippmann
These lovers of esoterica seem to derive a great deal of intellectual satisfaction out of not quite understanding what they are doing.
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
-- Anna Freud
We've built a deep, dark hole for your mind, and you get down in there and stay there no matter what, because if you don't obey, we'll take away everything and you'll be good and sorry, and no complaining either. Shut up! Don't EVER think. We're your mommy and your daddy and your teacher and your preacher, and we love you so much, that's why we're setting your switch to OFF. When you're older, you'll realize what a sacrifice you made for us, er, I mean, we made for you.
-- Jess Anderson
When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate crime against humanity.
-- Nadezhda Mandelstam
Never underestimate the human capacity for cognitive dissonance.