"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -- Oscar Wilde "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein "I dreamt music." -- Rick Deckard And my signature is a quote from Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny.
"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. " Bill Gates "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." JFK "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." Einstein "A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live." MLK Jr
"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 there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." -lord bertrand russell "it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, no matter how satisfying and reassuring." -carl sagan "believe those who are seeking the truth. doubt those who find it." -andre gide "for if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." -albert camus
"Either do something worth writing or, write something worth reading" - Benjamin Franklin "Talent does what it can; Genius does what it must" - Edward Bulwer-Lytton "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more." - Oscar Wilde "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. " - Edgar Allen Poe "Never to suffer, would never to've been blessed." - Edgar Allen Poe "Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ... 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ... 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily." - Benjamin Franklin
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson
"Got to live for the moment your future can get great or worse, best way to predict the future is create it first"
I think threads like these would be more meaningful if people posted their own interpretations of some of their quotes. Deckard, feel free to take the initiative to elaborate on your Scott Adams quote. All eyes are on you. It is has been proven that a man who has ventured to the unknown side of his brain, is bound to excel at everything he puts his mind to. I've been reading works by Thomas Henry Huxley lately, here are a few gems: I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man. Life cannot exist without a certain conformity to the surrounding universe — that conformity involves a certain amount of happiness in excess of pain. In short, as we live we are paid for living. Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt. The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Ronny - "If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." -- Kahlil Gibran "The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?" -- Chuang Tzu "At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since." -- Salvador Dali Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." -- Lewis Carroll "I want more life, ****er." -- Roy Batty "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears... in rain. Time to die." -- Roy Batty
"History is the lie commonly agreed upon." - Voltaire "Procrastination is like masturbation, it feels great at the time, but in the end you're screwing yourself. - Unknown "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." -The Beatles "I'd rather die on my feet then live on my knees. - Emiliano Zapata "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats "Potential means you ain't done it yet" - Darrell Royal "Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion." - Rudy Tomjonavich
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein "If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic." -House MD --RB
Some Quotes by Mark Twain: All generalizations are false, including this one. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing -socrates, after hearing people yap about things they know nothing of. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -shakespeare Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer -godfather, paraphrasing sun tzu Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. -tim, referring to the bunny of death.
A quote that I'm trying to take to heart more - Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -Louis E. Boone
