Collected Quotes
“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” - George Bernard Shaw
“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.” - William Blake
“A witty saying proves nothing.” - Voltaire
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
“The path of least resistance never leads to personal freedom, it proceeds directly away from it. Its axiomatic.” - Unknown
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle
“I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.” - H.L. Mencken
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup” - H.L. Mencken
“Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” - H.L. Mencken
“The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.” - G.K. Chesterson
“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.” - Ogden Nash
“Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat.” - Author unknown
“Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet, Impossible means not yet done.” - Julia Ecklar
“That government is best which governs least.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Revolutions are never about freedom or justice. They're about who's going to be top dog.” - Kilgore Trout
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet.” - Ambrose Bierce
“A character flaw is not a philosophy” - Scott Adams
Kettering's Observation: Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.
“The mind and the mouth have an inverse relationship: when one is open, the other is closed.”
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” - Winston Churchill
“Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.” - USENet posting
“The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.” — Margo Kaufman
“I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called “brightness,” but that doesn't work.” — Unknown
“If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.” - Arthur Kasspe
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.” - Mother Teresa
“Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.” - Oscar Wilde
“Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
“Anything worth doing is worth doing with power tools.” - Unknown