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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
If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.
-- Peter de Vries
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
-- Laurence J. Peter
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.)
[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.
-- Peter da Silva
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)
"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Become a Librarian."
This must be morning. I never could get the hang of mornings.
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards."
-- Soren F. Petersen
...as usual, some long-dead guy said what I meant to say far better than I ever could.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-- George MacDonald
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