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"The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."-- P. B. Medawar
"The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."-- Peter De Vries
The ballast of factual information, so far from being just about to sink us, is growing daily less. The factual burden of a science varies inversely with its degree of maturity. As a science advances, particular facts are comprehended within, and therefore in a sense annihilated by, general statements of steadily increasing explanatory power and compass--whereupon the facts need no longer be known explicitly, that is, spelled out and kept in mind. In all sciences we are being progressively relieved of the burden of singular instances, the tyranny of the particular. We need no longer record the fall of every apple.-- Peter Medawar ("Pluto's Republic")
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
"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."-- Peter C. Newman
The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.-- Peter da Silva
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
"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
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.)
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
“Pain (any pain – emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”-- Peter McWilliams
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards."-- Soren F. Petersen
Seattle reminds me a lot of London, where people will drink 12 beers but they never act drunk. Which makes you wonder what the point is of drinking 12 beers, if you're not going to put the lampshade on your head. You're killing your liver and still having no fun.-- Peter Bagge
If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh.