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Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
-- Henry Ford

Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
-- Henry Spencer

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque

"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."

"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
-- Henry Spencer

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)

"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
-- Henry David Thoreau

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
-- Henry Kissinger

"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
-- Henry Louis Mencken

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

-- Henry Brooks Adams

Writing novice-friendly documentation is a lot of work. We'd like to do it someday. Holding of breath is not advised.
-- Henry Spencer

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Rehab is for quitters.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Brougham

"Like most poets, preacher, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusions at a spark of evidence."
-- Henry Seidel Canby (on Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Antisocial arrogance is only for those of us who deserve it.

Use the best: Linux for servers, Mac for graphics, Windows for Solitaire.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Never underestimate the human capacity for cognitive dissonance.

It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.

"I'll take Fucking Clues for $200."

Men forget, but never forgive. Women forgive, but never forget.

The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"...the only place for 63,000 bugs is a rain forest"

Except for bunnies.
-- Anya

Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

Gina: "Isn't it customary for the suspect to leave the scene of the crime?"
Debra: "Definitely an amateur"

(Empire Records)

Fortress: a female fort.

Every four seconds a woman has a baby. Our problem is to find this woman and stop her.

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
-- Henrik Ibsen

We ignore truths for temporary happiness

To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
(Farmer's Almanac for 1978)

The reward for a job well done is more work.

"I'll fight for you, but I will not compete for you... There's a difference."

"You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead."
-- Lois Platford

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
-- Tom Stoppard

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.
-- Perry Farrell

Go not to Usenet for counsel, for it will say both no, and yes, and no, and yes....

Life is like a grapefruit...it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.
-- Ford Prefect

We shame outselves for the sake of simplicity.

Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you.

It's only fun if you can get in trouble for doing it.

Catapult: device for throwing cats long distances.

Alimony: the fee a woman charges for name-dropping.

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
-- Paul Biron

Knowledge is often mistaken for intelligence. This is like mistaking a cup of milk for a cow.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly

"People aren’t against you; they are for themselves."

Headline: Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft

Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-- Pablo Picasso