Quote of the Day - [4]

[Arc]

:note: Continued from - http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/197620-quote-day-3-a.html

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

_ Federico Fellini.

 

[jdXp610]

"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed,
to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course.
It happened to me ... on that summer’s day, when my eyes were opened to the sea."

~Jacques Yves Cousteau~

 

[A Guy]

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
~Mark Twain

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

<jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named
stallman deserves to be an Alpha?
<stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386
with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman.
<stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor
* Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing
<stu> and..
<stu> double-height hard drive

 

[A Guy]

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
~J. Bartlett Brebner

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

Satire is tragedy plus time.
-- Lenny Bruce

 

[jdXp610]

Tiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmeeeeeee is on my side
~Rolling Stones~

 

[A Guy]

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
~Unknown

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

We may not like doctors, but at least they doctor. Bankers are not ever
popular but at least they bank. Policeman police and undertakers take
under. But lawyers do not give us law. We receive not the gladsome light
of jurisprudence, but rather precedents, objections, appeals, stays,
filings and forms, motions and counter-motions, all at $250 an hour.
-- Nolo News, summer 1989

 

[A Guy]

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
~Euripides

A Guy

 

[Arc]

I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

_ Michael Jordon.

 

[A Guy]

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
~Gary Zukav

A Guy

 

[Rain08]

It's all there and yet it isn't there

-James May, explaining on how the internet works on "Head Squeeze" (a youtube channel)

 

[A Guy]

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
~Peter Clemenza

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

 

[A Guy]

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
~Robert Jackson

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles
Junius P. Long

 

[A Guy]

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
~Sir Julian Huxley

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect.
-- Freeman Dyson

 

[alikhan]

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe,