Abraham Lincoln - Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln - The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln - Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. - My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Agnes DeMille - No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Albert Einstein - A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein - Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Anna Lappe - Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.
Anna Lappe - Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
Anne Frank - How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Tyler People - always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Arthur C. Clark - From the point of view of a technologically less advanced civilization, the technology of a very advanced civilization is essentially indistinguishable from magic.
Austin O'Malley - Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
Author Charles Swindoll; where published unknown; found on the side of a refrigerator in the home of a person who did not recall its source. - In reply, perhaps this by Charles Swindoll: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important that the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice each day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of Attitudes.
Ayn Rand - Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Baltasar Gracian - Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Benjamin Franklin - He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin - He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin - If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin - Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin, US statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer - Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Bernadette Peters - You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Bill Cosby - I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems - There are more smart people outside your organization than inside.
Carl Jung - Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung - The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Cato the Elder - I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Chinese Proverb - The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Christopher Reeve - Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Colette - We only do well the things we like doing.
D. H. Lawrence - Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Dame Rose Macaulay - At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
Daniel J. Boorstin - The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Defective Yeti (blog) - I think the secret to happiness is to care a lot about people who care about you, and to not care too much about anything else.
Dolores Huerta - If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dr. David M. Burns - Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
E. E. CUMMINGS - HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN!
Eckhart Tolle - Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Edgar Allan Poe - Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edwards' Law - You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem.
Elbert Hubbard - Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
Eleanor Roosevelt - No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Epictetus - First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus - The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
Erica Jong - Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Esther Dyson - Always make new mistakes!
Eugene S. Wilson - Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Frances Willard - The world is wide, and I will not wast my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frank Scully - Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Franklin D. Roosevelt - When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
From Unix Fortune - It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark.
From Unix Fortune - The Consultant's Curse: When the customer has beaten upon you long enough, give him what he asks for, instead of what he needs. This is very strong medicine, and is normally only required once.
From a Slashdot comment - Freedom means letting other people do things you don't like.
From a T-Shirt - It's nice to be important... ...but it's important to be nice.
From a mailing list - Fluxx isn't exactly a game. It's like watching a lava lamp.
From http://www.whywork.org/ action/reform/media.html - There's a reason TV is called programming.
George Carlin - I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin - The status quo sucks...
George Carlin - [But] the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it. And try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.
George S. Patton - Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Washington - It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington, First US president, soldier, surveyor, farmer - Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
Gore Vidal - Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Gra's first law - One moment of reflection saves a thousand hasty actions.
Grant Frazier - Life is full of obstacle illusions.
H. G. Wells - Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Harold B. Lee - The most imporatant work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.
Harrison Ford - We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Heard from Rik Palieri - Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement.
Helen Hayes - Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Henry Fielding - Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Ford - If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford - Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Kissinger - There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Rollins - I'm always right when it comes to me <br> I used to think that people got in my way <br> Until I realized how little they have to do with what I'm doing <br> I live in one man's land
Isaac Asimov - I'm not a speed reader, I'm a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov - Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Jacob Braude - Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
James Bryant Conant - Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Japanese Proverb - When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese proverb - Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
Jean-Luc Picard - Things are only impossible until they're not.
Jeanette Winterson - What you risk reveals what you value.
Joan Didion - Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joel Hawes - Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
John Lancaster Spalding - The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Viscount Morley - It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
John Wayne - I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
Jonathan Kozol - Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Swift - It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Joseph Campbell - We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Chilton Pearce - To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Josh Billings - One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Julia Sorel - If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Katherine Mansfield - Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Kathleen A. Sutton - When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
Kathleen Norris - Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Keithr - Chill dude, to the OS you're just IO on some Inode.
Ken Kesey - Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Larry Niven - The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
Lazarus Long - This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
Lee Iacocca - Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Leonardo da Vinci - As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887. - Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Mahatma Gandhi - You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly TV Series - I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world.
Malcolm X - You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Manu - The laws of Manu Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Mark Twain - Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain - Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain - You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Martin Luther King, Jr., US civil rights leader, clergyman - A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martina Horner - What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Matthew Trump - Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
Michelle Burford - Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Midori Koto - Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Og Mandino - Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Oliver Goldsmith - Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oprah Winfrey - Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
P. D. James - What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
Patricia Moyes - I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Paul Brown - When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Paul Snyder via a mailing list - Only school teachers care about rules. Writers care about communication.
Peggy Noonan - Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
Plato Greek philosopher (424 . 348 BC) - You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato Greek philosopher (424 . 348 BC) - Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Robert Anton Wilson - I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself.
Robert F. Kennedy - The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert Frost - Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.
Robert A. Heinlein - The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein - Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert Ingersoll - Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Schuller - Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Rosalynn Carter - You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Sallust - A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Seneca - Religion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful.
Sir Francis Bacon - Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir George Savile - In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
Sir Richard Steele - Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Sir Winston Churchill - When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Skeeter - Information Security is the proper application of paranioa, diligence, and deviousness.
Skeeter - It's not about technology. (refering to InfoSec)
Sophocles - What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Steppenwolf p. 132 - The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble and wonderful and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too.'
Steppenwolf p.108 near the bottom - You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, ..., in putting too high a value on time. ... In eternity, however, there is not time, you see. Eternity is a mere momment, just long enough for a joke.
Stuart Stevens - There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
Sun Tzu - To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
Susan B. Anthony, 1896 - I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Swedish Proverb - Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
T. S. Eliot - Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Theodore Roosevelt - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theophrastus - [Time is] the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Thomas A. Edison - Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison - Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Fuller - If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Jefferson - Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Merton - The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Overbury - The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Tom Waites - The large print givith, and the small print taketh away
Unix Fortune - Talent does what it can, genius what it must. I do what I get paid to do.
Unknown - Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Unknown - Old age and treachery beats youth and skill every time.
Victor Hugo - He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Ward Cleaver - When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
Welsh Proverb - Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Whitney Young - The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Wil Wheaton - Ah, sweet, sweet knowledge, how I love to dine at your all-you-can-eat buffet.
Will Rogers - Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
William L. McKnight, (1887-1978) Former 3M CEO - If you put fences around people, you get sheep.
William Morris - If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Saroyan - Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Woody Allen - Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen - There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen - Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.