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"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."-- Ann Landers
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2-- Brian Anderson
To be understood is a luxury.
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.-- Jess Anderson
Sometimes you have to bite people hard on the lip before they realize you're not kissing them, so keenly do they yearn for approval.-- Jess Anderson
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.-- Jeremy S. Anderson
"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all."
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."-- Alexander Penney
Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic.
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
He who laughs last probably didn't understand the joke.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
What part of "AWW C'MON, PLEASE??" don't you understand? (T-Shirt)
"Loved by some, accepted by others and misunderstood by most."
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers."
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.-- J. von Neumann
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.-- Alexander Woollcott
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
No need crying over spilt milk. Unless, of course, you're a truck driver and you just lost nearly 3800 gallons on the interstate - then it's okay to cry.-- Dan Lantz
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."-- Peter Alexander Ustinov
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
Much learning does not teach understanding.-- Heraclitus
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."-- Mark Twain
> 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
Today was a really, really great day, on the "aaagh fuck me!" scale.-- Steve VanDevender
Law of Cat Landing:
A cat will always land in the softest place possible; often the mid-section of an unsuspecting, reclining human.
Television: the bland leading the bland.
If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."-- Mark Twain
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.-- Confucius
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.-- Martha Graham
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."-- Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)