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All good work is done in defiance of management.-- Bob Woodward
The reward for a job well done is more work.
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users.'-- Edward Tufte
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.-- Edward Abbey
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."-- Edward Gibbon
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.-- Howard Zinn
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."-- Edward Abbey
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.-- Edward Flaherty
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.-- Kin Hubbard
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."-- Tom Stoppard
"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."-- Edward O. Wilson
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.-- Kin Hubbard
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.-- Kin Hubbard
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."-- Mark Twain
Unfortunately, there are like five people in the world who understand the X keyboard model--I'm not one of them--and three are insane. It's that bad.-- Tim Showalter
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.-- Tom Stoppard
A penny saved is 2.5 grams of zinc alloy.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.-- Oscar Wilde
The way some people find fault, you'd think there was a reward.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.-- Elbert Hubbard
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to be insane in such a useful way that they can't commit you."-- Mark Edwards
Some people get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.-- Kin Hubbard
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.-- Kin Hubbard
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.-- Elbert Hubbard
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.-- Gloria Leonard
"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."-- Edouard Manet
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."-- Richard Nixon
"Everyone makes mistakes. It is what you do afterwards that counts."
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"-- Richard Nixon
I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.-- Richard Moss
Since before the Earth was formed and before the sun burned hot in space, cosmic forces of inexorable power have been working relentlessly toward this moment in space-time -- you receiving this fortune.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.-- Elbert Hubbard
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.-- Sydney J. Harri
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.-- Kierkegaard
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."-- Ursula K. Le Guin
The disarmament of fear, in ourselves and those that oppose, propels us. Every step forward brings the possibility of backlash. But forward we go.-- David G. Welton
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."-- August Strindberg
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."-- Kierkegaard
Deja moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.-- Richard Rodriguez
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.-- Richard Feynman
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."-- Richard Harkness
To be modest is to understand oneself as being capable of all men's weaknesses.-- Bernard of Clairvaux
"A hard man is good to find."-- Mae West
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.-- Elbert Hubbard
The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection operating through the filter of culture. They have suspended us between the two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, an equilibrium not of this world.-- Edward O. Wilson ("Biophilia")
I told [my doctor] that I thought having an orgasm a day instead of hormone replacement therapy was more fun.-- Cybill Shepard
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.-- George Bernard Shaw
He believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them.-- George Bernard Shaw
Maybe that explains Perl: Larry Wall let a kitten have its way with the bash, sed, and expr doc, then implemented the result.-- Jay Maynard
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.-- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.-- George Bernard Shaw
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."-- Pablo Picasso
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."-- George Bernard Shaw
Ask a man which way he is going to vote and he will probably tell you. Ask him however why and vagueness is all.-- Bernard Levin
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce.
How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.-- George Bernard Shaw
When I see a jogger I swerve my car towards him and pretend I passed out while I was driving. I miss him at the last minute but I bet it adds some excitement to his workout.-- Chris Smith
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."-- George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."-- Blair P. Houghton
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.-- George Bernard Shaw
[A] thing is symmetrical if there is something we can do to it so that after we have done it, it looks the same as it did before.-- Richard Feynman
Thy sky is falling...no, I'm tipping over backwards.-- Steven Wright
"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."-- Bernard J. Hibbits
Those who speak by the yard and think by the inch should be kicked by the foot.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.-- George Bernard Shaw
"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd everytime, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side."-- Orson Scott Card
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."-- Hemingway
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.-- Richard P. Brennan
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.