Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."



Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Horace

Horace

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.


Gurdjieff, George

Gurdjieff, George

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.


Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."



Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."



W. C. Fields

W. C. Fields

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."



Thursday, March 02, 2006

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."



Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."



Sunday, February 19, 2006

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."



Sunday, January 15, 2006

Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."


Rich Cook

Rich Cook

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."


Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."


Thursday, January 12, 2006

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."


Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."


Thursday, January 05, 2006

Greek Proverb

Greek Proverb

"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."


Dan Quisenberry

Dan Quisenberry

"The future is much like the present, only longer."


Anonymous

Anonymous

"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."