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We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable.

-- Peter Cochrane

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."
-- Peter De Vries

Caffeine is not a substitute for sheep.
-- Peter da Silva

"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."
-- Peter C. Newman

"The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
-- Peter De Vries

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurance J. Peter

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.
-- Peter de Vries

If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
-- Laurence J. Peter

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
-- Laurence J. Peter

[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.
-- Peter da Silva

She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.
-- Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters.)

The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.
-- Peter da Silva

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Johnston Peter

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

"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
-- Peter Alexander Ustinov

Power corrupts, but we need electricity.

"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

"When solving a kernel panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system."
-- Peter van der Linden

> 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

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
-- Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull

Hi, this is Peter. Right now alien creatures are eating my brain. Please leave a message at the tone and when they are finished one of the alien creatures will assume my form and get back to you.
-- Peter da Silva (heard occasionally on his answering machine)

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-- George MacDonald

"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Become a Librarian."