Answering an email this morning, I pulled an old quote from the cockles of my mind to make a point.
I tend to use quotes from those I respect and to a certain degree, those I understand.
To this end, here are a few of my favorite quotations and sayings.
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
- Ezra Pound
Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.
- Mark Twain
Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.
- Robert Nozick
Admit your errors before somebody exaggerates them.
- Andrew V. Mason
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear; not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
- Woodrow Wyatt
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
To stay young requires the unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
- Lazarus Long
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
When judging a physical theory, I ask myself whether I would have made the Universe in that way had I been God.
- Albert Einstein
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
- Voltarine de Cleyre
I owe my success to the fact that I didn't allow my schooling to interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals
- Unknown
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain
Love your country, but never trust its government.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Homophobia (n): Insecurity about being heterosexual.
- Unknown
Funny that "strap on" spelled backwards is "no parts".
- Unknown
Stupidity is only limited by ignorance.
- Unknown
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
- Groucho Marx
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- Franklin P. Jones
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
- Gandalf the Grey
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
look; gawk; talk; date; wine; unzip; strip; touch; finger; head; mount; fsck; more; yes; spray; umount; sleep; leave
- Unix Commands
It's true that 'simple and tested code means less bugs'.... Good and clear interfaces reduce bugs. Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. Using your brain before you code something up reduces bugs.
- Linus Torvalds
Premature optimization, including premature low-level design, is the root of all evil.
- Michael Abrash
Degustibus non disputandem
- You cannot argue about taste
Timendi causa est nescire
- Ignorance is the cause of fear
Nescire quaedam magna pars sapientiae est
- Not knowing everything, is a part of wisdom
Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
- He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow
Qui tacet consentit
- He who is silent agrees
“There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“Keep thy eye on the tach, thine ears on the engine, least thy whirlybits seek communion with the sun”
– John 4:50
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!”
- Hunter S. Thompson
“Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.”
– Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
“A zest for living must include a willingness to die.”
– R.A. Heinlein
If you think you don’t need a helmet, you probably don’t.
- Unknown
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