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Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
"I'm often silent when I'm screaming inside."
It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
-- Audre Lorde
Serving drinks on aircraft causes turbulence.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-- David Tyson Gentry
Coincidence happens.
There's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.
-- Silent Bob (Clerks)
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
Eloquence is logic on fire.
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon
Hindsight is an exact science.
Silence is the door between Love and Fear; and on Fear's side there is no latch.
-- Diane Duane ("the Door into Fire")
When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate crime against humanity.
-- Nadezhda Mandelstam
"You can only fuck your way to the middle."
-- Sharon Stone
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
"Sharing is to taxation as sex is to rape."
-- Jan Wasilewski
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-- Harvey Fierstein
A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
-- Henry Spencer
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
-- Kahlil Gibran
XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
"The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience."
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
-- G.B. Stearn
Luxury is the main cause of boredom; Boredom is a main cause of extreme thoughts, eg. violence.
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
-- G. K. Chesterton
I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.
-- Zaffel
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Rhetorical subtlety doesn't work on people with the perceptive powers of an eggplant.
-- Spencer Sun
It's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
-- Henry Spencer
Caffeine is not a substitute for sheep.
-- Peter da Silva
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Johnston Peter
Headline: Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
-- Laurence J. Peter
War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver (on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notes)
"Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism."
-- Noam Chomsky
Adolescence, n: The stage between puberty and adultery.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke
"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."
-- Bern Williams
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
-- Laurence J. Peter
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
-- Solomon Short
A conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
Headline: Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
What is the nature of God? His nature is entirely dependent upon the age or culture that has reinvented him.
-- Solomon Skink
Excellence is the trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as "Garfield Gets Spayed", and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: "In Search of Excellence", "Finding Excellence", "Grasping Hold of Excellence", "Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It", etc.
-- Dave Barry ("In Search of Excellence")
Adolescence is when children start bringing up their parents.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
"Wit is educated insolence."
-- Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
-- D. H. Lawrence
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while, you realise the pig is enjoying it.
-- Jamie Lawrence
"The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas."
-- Aldous Huxley (On Silence; 1946)
There's a difference between knowing something and realizing it.
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 imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."
-- R. A. Pinker
Science is the belief that we don't need belief to know most things.
Ad: Vacation special: Have your home exterminated. Get rid of aunts.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-- Michael Crichton
"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
-- Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull
Indifference is the key when dealing with a narcissistic megalomaniac.
"The main differences between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows when he's lying."
-- Peter da Silva
"Even the AI hated [my book]?"
"The AI loved it. That's when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
-- Dan Simmons (Hyperion)
Seminars, n.: From `semi' and `arse', hence, any half-assed discussion.