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blueeowynSo I have been remiss in posting these. Warning it is long but several are thought provoking.
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H.L. Mencken
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
--Dr. Seuss
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
-- Steven Wright
After all, we hold that Jesus Christ came to take away your sins, not your mind.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
-- Randy K. Milholland
See no evil, hear no evil, date no evil.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
-- H. L. Mencken
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
-- Ogden Nash
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.
-- Anwar Sadat
You can't have genius without patience.
--Margaret Deland
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-- Robert Frost
Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape...lengthwise.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
-- Leo Rosten
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
--Oscar Wilde
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
--George Washington
I try to take one day at a time...but recently several days have attacked me at once.
Wanted: Volcano. Average size. Must be active.
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
-- Cathy Ladman
You non-conformists are all alike.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
-- Douglas Adams
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
--Sir Francis Bacon
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
--Wernher von Braun
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
-- Dan Rather
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
-- Frederick Locker-Lampson
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei
O Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!
--Jeanne-Marie Roland
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
--Thomas Carlyle
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
--Otto von Bismarck
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
-- Bertrand Russell
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
-- Italian Proverb
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
--Henry David Thoreau
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
-- Charles McCabe
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
--Samuel Johnson
At times it may be necessary to temporarily accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
--Margaret Mead
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
-- Johnny Carson
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
-- Lily Tomlin
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
-- Tom Stoppard
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
-- Mel Brooks
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
--Richard Feynman
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
--Barry Jones
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Voltaire
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
-–Mahatma Gandhi
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
-- George Santayana
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L Collins
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
-- Saint Augustine
I believe in life before death.
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
--Louis D. Brandeis
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
--Henri Frederic Amiel
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
-- Peter Sellers
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
-- Franklin P. Adams
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
-- Mark Twain
I'm not sufficiently qualified to think.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
-- James Thurber
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.- and -War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
-- Gustave Flaubert
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
-- Richard Feynman
Cleaning while the kids are small is like shoveling when it still snows.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
-- Sacha Guitry
Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness!
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
-- David Sedaris
Avoid the tendency to adopt a 'ready-fire-aim' approach
--James Lewis
Project Management Tips
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H.L. Mencken
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
--Dr. Seuss
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
-- Steven Wright
After all, we hold that Jesus Christ came to take away your sins, not your mind.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
-- Randy K. Milholland
See no evil, hear no evil, date no evil.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
-- H. L. Mencken
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
-- Ogden Nash
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.
-- Anwar Sadat
You can't have genius without patience.
--Margaret Deland
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-- Robert Frost
Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape...lengthwise.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
-- Leo Rosten
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
--Oscar Wilde
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
--George Washington
I try to take one day at a time...but recently several days have attacked me at once.
Wanted: Volcano. Average size. Must be active.
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
-- Cathy Ladman
You non-conformists are all alike.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
-- Douglas Adams
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
--Sir Francis Bacon
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
--Wernher von Braun
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
-- Dan Rather
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
-- Frederick Locker-Lampson
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei
O Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!
--Jeanne-Marie Roland
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
--Thomas Carlyle
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
--Otto von Bismarck
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
-- Bertrand Russell
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
-- Italian Proverb
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
--Henry David Thoreau
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
-- Charles McCabe
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
--Samuel Johnson
At times it may be necessary to temporarily accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
--Margaret Mead
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
-- Johnny Carson
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
-- Lily Tomlin
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
-- Tom Stoppard
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
-- Mel Brooks
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
--Richard Feynman
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
--Barry Jones
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Voltaire
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
-–Mahatma Gandhi
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
-- George Santayana
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L Collins
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
-- Saint Augustine
I believe in life before death.
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
--Louis D. Brandeis
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
--Henri Frederic Amiel
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
-- Peter Sellers
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
-- Franklin P. Adams
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
-- Mark Twain
I'm not sufficiently qualified to think.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
-- James Thurber
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.- and -War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
-- Gustave Flaubert
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
-- Richard Feynman
Cleaning while the kids are small is like shoveling when it still snows.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
-- Sacha Guitry
Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness!
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
-- David Sedaris
Avoid the tendency to adopt a 'ready-fire-aim' approach
--James Lewis
Project Management Tips
The most valuable and least used word in a manager's vocabulary is "No"
You can con a sucker into committing to an unreasonable deadline, but you can't bully him into meeting it.
The most valuable and least used word in a project manager's vocabulary is "No."
The more ridiculous the deadline, the more it costs to meet it.
Too few people on a project can't sove the problems -- too many create more problems than they solve.
You can freeze the user's specs but he won't stop expecting.
Frozen specs and the abominable snowman are alike: they are both myths, and they both melt when sufficient heat is applied.
The conditions attached to a promise are forgotten, and the promise is remembered.