Favorite quotes?

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." - Willy Wonka, 1971.

"You'll find a quick squeeze on the hooter is an excellent safety precaution, Ms Scrumptious." - Caractacus Potts, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968.
 
It took decades to become an overnight success.
-- Gail Glesser
 
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you leave near him"
-Tolkien

"It is our choices, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
-Dumbledore

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
-Dumbledore

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

-Mother Teresa

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

-Lance Armstrong
 
If you want to get a good idea, get a lot of ideas
-- Linus Pauling


If I have a thousand ideas and one or two of them proves useful, then I'm happy because that's about the ratio one can expect in these things.
-- Alfred Nobel


There is absolutely no reason anyone would want a computer in their home
-- 1977 by Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC.





The Haloid 914 has no place in the modern office.
-- IBM internal report.

Following IBM’s rejection of its offer to sell IBM its Model 914 design and technology, Haloid Corporation proceeded with the 914 by itself. But, they were so upset by IBM's pronoucement that they decided not to risk the good Haloid name on the 914 and so brought it to market under a different trade name. They went on to sell 30,000,000 Model 914 automatic photocopiers under the Xerox trade name which was later adopted as their mew corporate name. Haloid’s own goal, by the way, has been to sell about 500 model 914s.

IBM was right, you know; the Haloid Model 914 had no place in the "modern office." IBM knew that because nobody did "office" better than IBM. What IBM's experts missed was that the automatic photocopier would -- almost over night -- transition the modern office into the post-modern office centered around the photocopier and, subsequently, the laser printer (which uses the same technology).​


If it's conventional, it ain't wisdom; and if it's wisdom, it ain't conventional.
-- Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines



"A single amateur built the Ark. But it took a team of top experts to build the Titanic."
-- Unknown



"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw



"Let your mind go free. Imagine devine landscapes. Think of a thousand things. That you may then reduce them to their proper order and form."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

Notice the order in which Da Vinci (doubtlessly one of the most creative minds ever) urges that things be done in. First, let your mind go free (radical thinking -- the sort of thinking for which one could loose one's head -- in his day). Next, imagine devine landscapes (I love that phrase). And, only after you have a thousand ideas (probably more figuratively speaking than a literal thousand ideas, but you get the point) only then do you reduce them to proper order and form. Far to many people start reducing to proper order and form after they only have one or two ideas. The result is that the ideas which they end up presenting to the world in proper order and form are their first ideas, not their best.​
 
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To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
~ James Randi ~

Convictions are greater enemies of truth than lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
 
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams


"There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."

And one of my favorites...


"It's unwise to pay too much but it's unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it's well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better!"


John Ruskin (1819-1900)
 
One of Gollnick's quotes reminded me of this one.

"No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."

Bill Gates

It has been paraphrased and no one seems know if he actually said it. He also supposedly said, "we will never make a 32-bit operating system". :D
 
Ted Nugent: "To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic."

Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

The Dalai Lama: "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."
 
I scraped these quotes off of the internet, so I have no idea if they are historicaly accurate. Here you go:

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour." -- George Washington (Address to 1st session of Congress)

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.

he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whos mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tradjedy of life is when men are afraid of the light –plato

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. – Thomas Jefferson
 
From Lock, stock
Rory Breaker: If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything, I'll kill ya. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now, do you understand everything I've said? 'Cause if you don't, I'll kill ya.

Eddie: They're armed.
Soap: What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?
Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!
 
Of course everyone knows this one from Boondock Saints

Connor: Now you will receive us.
Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
Connor: We do not want your tired and sick.
Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim.
Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us.
Murphy: With every breath we shall hunt them down.
Connor: Each day, we will spill their blood till it rains down from the skies.
Murphy: Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
Connor: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil, we urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.
Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three. And on that day, you will reap it.
Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish.
[Murphy and Conner join II Duce behind Yakavetta]
Connor, Murphy, Il Duce: And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.
Il Duce: In nomine Patri.
Connor: Et Fili.
Murphy: Spiritus Sancti.
 
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.

- William Claude Dukenfield (1880-1946)
 
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
-- Henny Youngman



My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
-- Henny Youngman
 
LATELY, I've come to realize the late George Carlin was a Zen master in disguise. He sublimely summed it all up in one of his comedy specials:

"IT'S ALL BULL***T FOLKS!!!"
 
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"No generalization is ever entirely true, not even this one."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
'Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO-HOO, What a Ride' - Anonymous
 
Powernoodle - your quote , 'Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ' was one of OGDE NASH's short poems .Not Willy Wonka !!
"The pelican, who's beak can hold more than his belly can "
Quotes from two different Arnold Schwarzenegger movies which have interesting conotations now that he's governor.
"I'm an illegal alien"
" Judgement day is inevitable"
 
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