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"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)

To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton

"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost

"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly

It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost

'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land)

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-- Robert Pirsig

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
-- Robert Fulghum

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein

The important thing is never to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
-- Albert Einstein

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
-- Elbert Hubbard